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(Auction)Decorative Arts in Hatfield
A collection of 474 early 19th-century plaster intaglios, mounted in 25 volumes in the manner of Giovanni Liberotti, displayed in half vellum volumes against green marbled paper, and each volume with a manuscript list inside the front cover, sold for $9945 (est. $8000/10,000).
Paul Weber (1823-1916), Scene in Dolwyddelan Valley, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)After Almost 20 Years in the Suburbs, Grogan & Company Moves to Boston
Nancy, Lucy, and Michael Grogan.
An auction house that has been based in Boston’s southwestern suburbs for almost two decades is moving into the city. Grogan & Company has bought a piece of real estate at the foot of Beacon Hill and is transferring its operation there. On June 11 the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Roundup of Design Sales in June
Bonhams held the first sale of the week. Sales from its 227 lots of decorative arts totaled $1,443,750. This circa 1910 Tiffany Studios Favrile glass and patinated bronze Laburnum table lamp, estimated at $250,000/350,000, sold on the phone to the trade for $425,000. Frank Maraschiello, director of the 20th-century decorative ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tale of Two Art Sales
Truckin by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an unnamed institution for $137,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 84" x 60" (7' x 5') acrylic on canvas was signed, titled, dated 1969, and inscribed on the stretcher bars. June 10.
Southern Landscape by Walter Williams (1920-1988) sold to a collector for $81,250 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Memorial Service For John J. Snyder Jr.
A memorial service for John J. Snyder Jr. will be held on June 8, at 2 p.m., at Rock Ford Plantation, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For more information, call (717) 392-7223.
Originally published in the June 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2014 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Big Prices at Briggs Auction
A pair of lounge chairs on welded and patinated steel frames by Paul Evans brought $33,040.
There was competition for a Chester County, Pennsylvania, sampler dated 1830 and worked by Hannah Bittle, who stitched flowers, animals, and the names of her parents and grandparents and surrounded them all with a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Wild Cherry, signed lower right, a 28" x 30" oil on canvas in a Newcomb-Macklin frame, $230,500. Painted in 1928, it had been acquired in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. James Hillman of Pittsburgh. Garber wrote to James Hillman’s wife, Margaret, describing Wild Cherry: “The scene is ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country Show Evolves and Survives
This Mexican child’s jacket was priced at $65 at Los Angeles dealer Andrew Munana Collection’s American Indian art booth.
This 53" long wood and upholstery settee was priced at $1695 at Atherton Antiques, Menlo Park, California.
This Pennsylvania green-painted and stenciled flowers blanket chest cost $1895 at F. & B. Rosenquist, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The June 2014 Heartland Antique Show
Butter molds: (top) cornucopia, $795; snowflake, $895; (bottom) Pennsylvania Dutch tulip, double-sided with star-in-circle on the back, $850; Pennsylvania Dutch heart, half round, $995, all from John H. Rogers Antiques, New London, New Hampshire.
Continuous-arm Windsor in bittersweet paint, $1950, and New England tavern table, $2900, from Bruce Rigsby of Lancaster, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXIV, Keramics 2014, Art Glass 2014
Rookwood Iris glaze vase, decorated by Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1909, moonlight scene with summer birch trees in delicate shades of gray and white, 8 7/8" high, un-crazed, $11,500.
This Rookwood Mahogany glaze vase was a trial piece by William McDonald in 1898 with painted and incised stylized lotus blossoms and leaves. The ... (Read More)
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