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(Auction)Arader Gets $3.277 Million for Fewer than 145 Lots
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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(Auction)Estates and Collections Contribute to Auction Success
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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(Fragment)Indiana Art and Something from Singapore
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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(Show)The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
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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(Auction)Sotheby's Various-Owners Americana Auction
Three phone bidders competed for this pair of oil on canvas portraits by Robert Feke (1707-1752) of Mr. Tench Francis (33¾" x 25¾") and his wife, Elizabeth Turbutt Francis (33½" x 26½"). Painted in Philadelphia, circa 1740, the portraits descended in the family of their daughter Anne and sold on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lancaster County Desk-and-Bookcase Tops Christie's Americana Auction
The Chippendale carved cherrywood desk-and-bookcase, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785, 92½" x 42¼" x 22 1/8", sold for $665,000 (est. $400,000/600,000) to collector Peter Wunsch in the salesroom, underbid by a collector on the phone. It came from the collection of the late Bertram and Trish Coleman of Bryn Mawr, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nutt Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
Rare Chinese export porcelain American market punch jug, early 19th century, 9" high, painted with a portrait of George Washington in an oval surrounded by a gilt band and bead border, the surround repeated on the opposite side enclosing a monogram “BH,” the gilt band repeated around the rims and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)iGavel Opens a Texas Branch
iGavel founder Lark Mason (right) and his son, Lark Mason III, at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair in January. Lark Mason III has joined the firm and will head up the iGavel branch in Texas.
iGavel (www.igavel.com) has opened a branch in New Braunfels, Texas.
Lark Mason Sr., founder of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Phone Bidders Tango for Sunlight in the Studio
Sunlight in the Studio by Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) sold for $219,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). The signed and dated (“1888”) oil on canvas measures 18 1/8" x 22 3/16" without its period frame. Sold along with this lot was a group of books and ephemera about World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), where ... (Read More)
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(Show)Metro Curates
Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, sold this equestrian cast-iron trade sign, made for the Cincinnati Stove Works company, circa 1901; the asking price was $28,500. The 36-drawer chest, possibly from a hardware store, with original ivory paint and dovetailed construction, also sold. It was tagged $18,500. The tramp art wood ... (Read More)
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