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(Auction)Babbitt and Hyde Family Artifacts at Auction
An 18k gold or better three-piece Victorian mourning suite in a relief ram’s head motif produced the biggest price of the sale at $4600.
A full-plate daguerreotype of the family of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde sold for $2875.
Gamage had high hopes for this Victorian American walnut and marble bedroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
Six flow blue bowls in the Conway pattern by New Wharf Pottery, $45 each from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana.
English watercolor of a gentleman and a dog, $795 from Inez Allen and Nan Donovan of City Mouse Country Mouse Antiques, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Eight-gallon crock, Albany slip, stenciled in yellow with “S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Max Berry Banks and Toys Top $3 Million
Clown on Bar, C. G. Bush Co., circa 1880 ex.-L.C. Hegarty, tin and cast iron. Ingeniously, when placed in the clown’s hand, the coin’s weight causes the figure to lean forward; the coin drops into the bank’s base while the clown continues a full rotation of the bar. It brought ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
This tip-top table, made in Nantucket, of maple and birch, 1815-30, with an old red finish, a three-piece top, turned pedestal with an urn, and spider legs with reeded edges, was 29" high x 27¼" wide x 17" deep. It was $3800 from W.M. Schwind, Jr. He said it was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon: Art + Design
Arlie Sulka of Lillian Nassau LLC, New York City, who specializes in Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, has expanded into mid-century modern furniture and design. For example, the 1966 walnut slab shelf (left) by George Nakashima holds three Tiffany Favrile pots from 1905-10 and an Edmond Lachenal piece from ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 BIFAS
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, showed work by Geoffrey Johnson (b. 1965), including Three Buildings in Gold (48" x 36"), a 2014 oil on panel that was priced at $19,500.
Back Bay, Boston, dealer Martha Richardson showed Father and Child Reading, a 14½" x 9¼" x 8¾" bronze ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Pennsylvania and Americana Auctions
Crewelwork work bag panel, “Jane Hoopes / October 13 1768,” Goshenville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 29½" x 19¾", ex-Price estate, $7500 (est. $2000/3000) to a phone bidder. A woolwork sampler that sold at Skinner in November 2006 records her parents’ names, John and Christian, and the name of the Hollis School ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chanel and the Beatles' Psychedelic Apple Boutique Score High
This Chanel black silk chiffon full-length bias-cut Chantilly lace gown from the 1930s has lace insertions in the bow and ribbon patterns, a low V back, shoulder capelet, and narrow chiffon and lace streamers attached to the sides by the hips. Lined in black silk charmeuse with a deep lace ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2014
Rookwood Uranus Tiger Eye vase, Albert Valentien, circa 1899, cranes in flight, 18½" high, several in-the-making base chips, $35,650.
Rookwood Iris glaze vase with gold-plated silver overlay at the rim, Albert Valentien, 1904, three life-size irises in bloom and two buds, the overlay engraved with a floral design, 14½" high, uncrazed, ... (Read More)
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