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Famille verte duck wine pot and cover, late 18th century, the body iron-red with green and gilt wings, the cover with a lotus finial, the handle a green stem, the beak gold, 8" long, $21,250 (est. $8000/12,000) to a bidder on the phone.
A large 18th-century famille rose pheasant, 16½" high, ... (Read More)
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Brad Reh and Debbie Turi transformed Wallace Hall into a small boutique show with 34 dealers.
Six China trade watercolors of Chinese sampans and junks, each 14½" x 18", circa 1850, were $15,000 from Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge. The frames are contemporary.
Need to seat 16? The George III three-pedestal table, ... (Read More)
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A rare pair of American silver bottle stands, Myer Myers, New York, circa 1765, each circular with scrolling openwork fret-sawn sides, centering on a solid cartouche monogrammed “SSC,” fitted with turned wooden bases. They are marked on the back of the cartouche“Myers”in a conforming rectangle. The diameter is 5 1/8". The pair ... (Read More)
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Seabright from Galilee, New Jersey, 1880, a 21" x 42" oil on canvas by the short-lived American artist Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886), sold to an absentee bidder for $183,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). The painting depicts Sea Bright, New Jersey, as seen from the small town of Galilee, which lies on the ... (Read More)
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Portraits did well in the January sale. Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838), son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl, came to Tennessee in 1817 to paint Andrew Jackson. This couple by the younger Earl sold for $24,780 (est. $6800/8400). The sitters, the Reverend Hardy Cryer and his wife, were a handsome ... (Read More)
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This landscape by Theodore Clement Steele shows his home, House of the Singing Winds, in the background. The oil on canvas brought $44,800.
Singapore Malay Culture by Cheong Soo Pieng, a mixed-media on board composition, sold online for $83,375.
Photos courtesy Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers
An oil painting by Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926), ... (Read More)
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The very rare New York gate-leg table in untouched condition with original butterfly hinges, old finish, and no restoration, red gum, 27¾" high, 52" wide open, 43½" deep, was from Queens County, Long Island. An identical table from the same workshop is pictured in Dean Failey’s Long Island Is My ... (Read More)
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