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(Fragment)Lily-Pad Pitcher Brings $40,900
From left: $40,900 and $11,200.
A medium blue circa 1852 Lancaster Glass Works type 1 crossed lily-pad pitcher, 8¼" high, sold for $40,900 (includes buyer’s premium) when Glass International closed its latest absentee auction on December 1, 2012. According to the auction house, the price is the highest paid to date ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum to Lose 212 "Gifts" of Esmerian Folk Art to Bankruptcy Pool
by David Hewett
On December 26, 2012, bankruptcy liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum filed documents in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, that, if approved by Judge Robert Drain, would quiet the multiple claims of ownership of approximately 363 pieces of folk art, most of which are now in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dolphin Promotions Sells Miami National Antique Show
Dolphin Promotions, Inc. sold its Miami National Antique Show to U.S. Antique Shows, a division of GLM and organizer of the Original Miami Beach Antique Show, in a deal announced on January 27.
The Miami National Antique Show features 150 exhibitors annually. Now in its 36th year, it is one of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting of Fort Macomb in Louisiana Sells in Tennessee
This is an oil on panel depiction of Fort Macomb, originally built to defend New Orleans. The painting attracted multiple phone and Internet bidders and sold for $29,250. The artist was George David Coulon (1822-1904) of Louisiana. It measured 15" x 21" (sight 11" x 17"). The painting is signed ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Only Stella Show in Town
Chuck White of Warwick, New York, had several weathervanes lining his booth walls, and this quill example, by J.W. Fiske, caught the eye. Made in the 19th century, it was priced at $9000. “It’s in untouched condition,” he said.
You didn’t need a mirror to see that this mermaid, priced at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby’s Americana
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family on the Terrace, signed and dated along the bottom, “Benjamin Henry Latrobe nat. del. [delineated from nature], July 16, 1796,” watercolor and pen and ink on paper, 16 3/8" x 24", consigned by a descendant of John ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show 2013
Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein of Newbury, Massachusetts, sold the tall grain-painted chest (left) and the 12-panel chest under the pair of portraits by Ammi Phillips, from the artist’s “Border” period, of Ashbel Stoddard and Patricia Bolles Stoddard. The Rhode Island gate-leg table was $48,000. The compass-seat chair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
There are three other paintings of Flying Cloud by James Buttersworth (1817-1894). Although he never dated his work, he did produce an N. Currier lithograph of Flying Cloud in 1852, in partnership with Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. (1816-1886). Brown was a potential rival who did a clipper ship, Comet, for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie’s
Edward Hicks (1780-1849), Penn’s Treaty, oil on canvas, 17¾" x 23¾", with the words “Penn’s Treaty” in gold on the mahogany frame, sold for $2,546,500 (est. $600,000/900,000), the highest price of Americana Week. It has not been seen in New York since 1977 when it was shown at Hirschl & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana at Bonhams
The $3000/5000 estimate was quickly eclipsed by bidders both on the phone and in house for a painted and parcel-gilt urn that took off, ultimately selling for $152,500 to a phone bidder. It was Russian Imperial Porcelain, dated 1830 in Cyrillic, 21½" high, and decorated with a young woman sewing ... (Read More)
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