SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — More than 500 lots from a variety of estates will cross the auction block on January 9 at the North River Auction Gallery. Highlighting the sale will be select items consigned from a fourth generation Newport, R.I., estate, a Fifth Avenue Manhattan penthouse, an estate in Woodstock and other items that have been freshly picked from throughout the Northeast.

The Newport collection was 70 years in the making and boasts many pieces of Eighteenth Century American furniture. A total of 35 antique Oriental carpets will also be offered, along with formal sterling silver, an oil on canvas by John Carlton Wiggins and other Rhode Island paintings.

From a Manhattan penthouse comes an important hand carved wood sculpture by Albrecht Dürer of “St Stephen,” the first King of Hungary in the year 1000 and sainted in 1498. Dürer, a well-known artist born in 1471, is considered to be a “Renaissance genius” and is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as well as being featured on the cover of Antiques and The Arts Weekly’s November 12 issue. The lot is accompanied with provenance and documentation from the Hungarian Consulate and both the letter and carving are marked with the 1904 Hungarian government seal.

From the Woodstock estate comes a handsome Mission-style slate pool table with leather basket pockets.

Furniture includes everything from an Eighteenth Century Dutch marquetry bombe bureau to Nineteenth Century faux bamboo dressing tables. Highlights from the selection of American furniture include an Eighteenth Century inlaid Hepplewhite card table, a Sheraton cookie corner chest, a Hepplewhite mahogany sideboard and numerous candlestands.

Continental pieces include an ivory inlaid and carved center table, a Flemish ebony, walnut and fruitwood parquetry inlaid collector’s cabinet, an Eighteenth Century Georgian giltwood center table and a bouille and bronze mounted library table. Also included is a life-size Black Forest carved bear hall tree, walking sticks and sculptures.

Paintings and watercolors include a selection of American and European works by artists such as Sydney Burleigh, John Wiggins, John Sloan, Guy Carlton Wiggins, George Copeland and Thomas Craig.

An assortment of silver includes a 155-piece Gorham flatware set with 13 serving pieces, a sterling silver water pitcher and a Tiffany sterling and crystal Tantulous set. Other smalls include a Stueben three-light lily table lamp, a selection of antique Imari, bronzes, stoneware and clocks.

The preview will take place at the gallery Monday, January 2, through Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm, Friday and Saturday, 11 am to 8 pm, and Sunday, January 9, from 8:30 till sale time at 11:30. North River Auction Gallery is at 114 Partition Street.

For information, 845-247-9130 or www.NorthRiverAuctionGallery.com.