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Chinese Export Art
by Lita Solis-Cohen

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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The Art, Design, & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall
by Clayton Pennington

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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The Silver Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt
by Lita Solis-Cohen

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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Arader Gets $3.277 Million for Fewer than 145 Lots
by Clayton Pennington

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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Estates and Collections Contribute to Auction Success
by Karla Klein Albertson

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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Indiana Art and Something from Singapore
by Don Johnson

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 2015 Winter Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

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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