Stories for April '23
(Fragment)New Dates for Scarborough, Maine, Show
The Scarborough High School Vintage and Antique Show & Sale has a new date. The event has been moved to Saturday, April 8, the day before Easter Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and admission is $6.
Joshua and Rachel Gurley of Gurley Antique Shows have been promoting this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
The Philadelphia Show, founded in 1962 as the Philadelphia Antiques Show, dropped the word antiques from its name last year and added a tagline in small print: “Antiques • Art • Design.” Forty-two dealers will exhibit their wares in a purpose-built tent at the top of the “Rocky Steps” on ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Ceramics in America 2021/2022
A Book Review
The 2021-22 edition of Ceramics in America, the second since Ronald W. Fuchs II joined Robert Hunter as co-editor, begins with four essays about Chinese porcelain and continues with more about ceramics made and used in America. Archaeologist Robert Hunter continues to show how the smallest ceramic fragments ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 2023
Guy Pène du Bois, Portrait of Patricia Pike in White Dress, 1941. Estate of Yvonne Pène du Bois McKenney. Photo courtesy 511 Gallery, New York City.
—Through March 26 —Lakeland, Florida
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958) were two different but stylistically overlapping artists who became lifelong friends from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Knowing the Reserve
The practice of revealing auction price reserves to bidders has been debated for a long time. Both sides of the argument have solid points, and right now it is up to individual auction houses or consignors to decide.
If Oregon’s Senate Bill 734 passes, auctioneers in Oregon would be required by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Franklin Clock Awakens
Photos courtesy Wiederseim Associates
If ever an auction lot qualified as a “sleeper,” it was an 18th-century English tall clock that sold February 15 at Wiederseim Associates in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, for $37,500 (includes buyer’s premium), far exceeding its $350 high estimate.
The clock’s engraved brass “sheet” dial was signed “Whitehurst, Derby” by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mid-19th-Century Documents Top Lots at Muscarelli Auction
Muscarelli Auction Company, Taylorsville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Muscarelli Auction Company
Two historical handwritten documents tied for the top lot at Taylorsville, North Carolina-based Muscarelli Auction Company’s online sale that ended February 11. A letter from Confederate General Robert E. Lee to the governor of Florida and an account ledger book kept ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Strong International Jewelry Market Drives Bidders and Prices
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Doyle
If we had any question about how the latest jewelry sale at Doyle in New York City fared, the post-sale press release summed it up: “The current strength of the international jewelry market was on display...on February 2 as bidders across the country and overseas ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 69th Winter Show
New York City
The 69th edition of The Winter Show was back at its birthplace at the Park Avenue Armory, raising funds for the East Side House Settlement, January 20-29. Sixty-eight dealers were greeted enthusiastically by collectors, curators, decorators, and those who make a career of shopping. The preview party ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cohen and Cohen’s $1.7 Million Sale
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
U.K. dealers Michael and Ewa Cohen are known for selling the finest and rarest Chinese export porcelain to collectors and museums in all parts of the world, often from well-designed stands at top antiques fairs. They kept a selection of works in a New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Americana
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Mrs. J. Insley Blair’s Philadelphia walnut scroll-top high chest of drawers, circa 1760, attributed to Henry Clifton and Thomas Carteret, with carving attributed to someone dealers call “Spike” because of the shape of his leaves, has a crusty old finish and its original cartouche, urn-and-flame ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online Americana Sale Brings $1.1 Million
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s had so much Americana to sell in January that the last 305 lots were offered online only on Monday afternoon, January 23, beginning at noon and ending at 5 p.m. All the lots were on view for inspection at 1334 York Avenue, and 224 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Knowingly Buys Fake for More Than Double High Estimate
On January 21 Crescent City Auction Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, sold three paintings all properly cataloged as “After Clementine Hunter.” They were fakes, and sold as such. In fact, after determining they were fake with the help of Hunter expert Tom Whitehead, Crescent City asked the consignor to write “FAKE” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Santore Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s sale of the collection of Philadelphia collectors Charles and Olenka Santore January 19 in New York City dispersed the finest assemblage of Windsor furniture ever to come to market.
Charlie Santore (1935-2019) was known in the world of Americana as the author of the definitive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)19th-Century American Art
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s offered 66 lots of 19th-century American art January 19 during Americana Week, and several dealers and collectors attended the live sale to buy and also observe what was selling and not selling during the auction. After three years of enduring COVID-19, clients sitting in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)From Peale to Peto: The Pollack Collection
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Fans of paintings of fruit, flowers, fish, and faces showed their appreciation by bidding on and buying 32 out of 34 lots offered in Christie’s sale “From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection,” held the morning of January 19 in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Rembert at Outsider Art Sale
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
The widely anticipated Outsider and vernacular art sale at Christie’s was held the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18, midway through Americana Week. The sale, which offered 103 lots, totaled $2,064,384, with a sell-through rate of 99%. The presale estimates totaled $1.2/2 million, according to Cara ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eagle Tops $4.5 Million 47-Lot Auction
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s offered 47 lots in its “Art of the Americas” sale held January 18, midway through Americana Week. The noon sale totaled $4,514,580 (including buyers’ premiums). Of the 47 lots offered (lots 5 and 7 were withdrawn before the auction), 33 sold, for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garthoeffner Collection Crosses the Auction Block
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
The large full-bodied molded and sheet-copper weathervane in the form of Lady Liberty holding a ten-star flag and raising her right arm was made by Cushing & White (formerly A.L. Jewell), Waltham, Massachusetts. The substantial figure, 38¾" x 27½", retains the original ... (Read More)
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(Show)Peter Mavris’s Three-Hour Antiques Show
Hampton, New Hampshire
The vagaries of weather and COVID-19 notwithstanding, Peter Mavris’s January 15 antiques show in Hampton, New Hampshire, pleased dealers and buyers alike. A couple of dealers were struck down by COVID or the flu and withdrew from the show, but it was a delight for those who did ... (Read More)
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