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This Fenton Goddess of Harvest bowl in blue with a candy ribbon edge sold for $52,500. The Goddess of Harvest pattern is extremely rare, and the bowl is the only example known in blue.
This rare aqua opalescent Northwood Poppy Show plate brought $24,000.
Holly is one of Fenton’s more desirable patterns, ... (Read More)
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Harry Davis is shown in front of his painting Harvest Dinner, which won the Rome Prize. The work is now in a private collection. The photo is from 1939.
The Nisbit-Koch House, Evansville by Harry Davis, acrylic on canvas, 40" x 46", signed, dated ’75, $6720. The back had a tag ... (Read More)
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A 19th-century Chinese Manchu woman’s ceremonial headdress, richly decorated with blue enameled and gilt metal, mounted with tourmaline, jade, pearls, coral, and rubies designed as flowers and phoenixes and butterflies, 7" tall x 12" wide, sold on line for $22,990 (est. $10,000/20,000). According to John Snyder’s colleague Peter Seibert, Snyder ... (Read More)
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Amy Koler and Stephen Meyer, collectors from St. Petersburg, Florida, filed suit in Maricopa County Court in Arizona on September 10, claiming that an Andy Warhol screenprint they had left with a gallery for safekeeping was sold without their knowledge or approval. They are alleging fraud, conversion, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, ... (Read More)
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On September 9, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the highest legal authority in the state, answered a question asked by 14 artists and their legal team. The question: to whom does the art belong when a gallery owner goes bankrupt—the owner of the gallery or the artist who created ... (Read More)
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In our September article “Great Buckskin Shirt Brings Great Big Bucks” (p. 30-C), we pictured a portrait by itinerant portrait artist E. E. Finch, noting that “little is known about Finch, and even his first name is lost to history.”It turns out more than a little is known, as Marius ... (Read More)
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Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner and Leslie Hindman
I’m back to covering auctions again after spending the last couple of months attending and writing about antique and vintage jewelry sold at shows by dealers. These are two of the ways we learn about what’s happening in the market and about ... (Read More)
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The $206,500 washstand. Photo courtesy Willis Henry Auctions.
It was all good for auctioneer Willis Henry of Marshfield, Massachusetts, at his annual Shaker sale under a tent at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 6.
Three pieces of furniture sold for over $100,000. The highest-priced lot, a New Lebanon, New ... (Read More)
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The Asbestos brand sad iron case includes two sizes of irons and a detachable handle assembly. The kit is housed in a finger-jointed wooden box and displays a patent date of May 22, 1900. The case and contents sold for $104.50 (est. $50/125).
Here is one selection from the group of ... (Read More)
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Acoma pot signed by Marie Z. Chino (1907-1992), polychrome grid design, possibly 1940’s, 7½" high x 9" diameter, slight wear and minor rim flake, $4500.
One-piece corner cupboard attributed to the Ralph family of Sussex County, Delaware, early 19th century, pine with old green paint, elaborate molded and carved decoration, 87" ... (Read More)
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