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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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(Show)The Metro Show 2013
This 50" x 131" cotton textile painted with natural dyes from the Huari culture of Peru was carbon dated to A.D. 850 and was $350,000 from William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eric Garduño said that it is the finest he has ever owned.
The Weiss twins, Leon and Steven, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Other Events in New York City during Americana Week
James Kochan of Frederick, Maryland, is shown next to a 34" x 52" oil on canvas by John Jenkinson, A Private Armed Vessel Arriving at Liverpool, that was tagged $65,000. “It looks like a Robert Salmon,” said Kochan, noting that Jenkinson and Salmon were contemporaries in Liverpool, England. Jenkinson, however, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sendak Sale: Where the Wild Things Were
A first edition of Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are sold for $18,000 (est. $10,000/15,000). It was signed and inscribed with a drawing of a wild thing. The book tells the tale of a boy named Max, who has a tantrum and gets sent to bed without his supper. Obedient, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Changes in Seattle
These Aboriginal shields were offered in the on-line catalog, but a sale was negotiated prior to the auction. They ended up going to a museum in Sydney, Australia for $25,000.
These Japanese Kamakura wood masks were housed in stacking lacquer boxes with signed lids (not shown). The wooden masks are large ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno Sells Americana
This 1760-80 Massachusetts 32¾" x 34" x 20¾" mahogany serpentine chest of drawers sold on the phone for $117,800 (est. $50,000/80,000), the top lot price of the sale.
John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841) of Boston painted the 1818 burning of Boston’s Exchange Coffee House and signed and dated it on the lower ... (Read More)
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