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(Auction)20th-Century Design at Christie's
Phone bidders competed for this Isamu Noguchi unique fossil marble table designed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dretzin in 1948-49. The 13¼" high x 49" wide x 44" deep table sold for $2,882,500 (est. $800,000/1.2 million) to a phone bidder who also bought the Noguchi chess table. Christie's called the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-/21st-Century Design Sale
Frances Rocchi Saturday Evening Girls large (3½" x 12¼") bowl with roosters in cuerda seca on green ground, Boston, 1909, $96,875 (est. $17,500/22,500) on the phone. It is incised "Early to bed & early to rise makes a child healthy, wealthy & wise" and signed with the bowl shop mark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Bonhams
A Zuni jewelry set of a necklace and earrings made by Dan Simplicio and Leekya Deyuse sold for $12,500 (est. $6000/9000) to a dealer from the East Coast.A Chumash polychrome basket sold on the phone for $35,000 (est. $40,000/60,000). Bayuk collection.Bonhams, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams"If we'd had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont's Scrap Dealer Law Snares Antiques Dealers
by David HewettOn July 1 a new law, Act 167, regulating scrap metal processors, went into effect in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin signed the legislation on May 18. (Act 167 had been H.699 as it made its way through various committees in the house and senate.) It had been introduced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Celebrates Anniversaries
by Lita Solis-CohenWinterthur is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC), originally known as the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (WPEAC), and the 40th anniversary of the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) with an exhibition that highlights the accomplishments of ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: A Powerful Triplet
by Steve ProffittThese days the postman most often delivers electronically. A nice man sent me this e-mail: "In a recent issue of M.A.D., there was an article on an auction in which a piece of art sold for more than a million dollars. A well-known dealer, who did not have ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Paula Sophoclides of Recollections, Canandaigua, New York, specializes in decorative quilts, English porcelains, and early furniture. She showed a pink circled quilt for $275 and a navy blue garland of flowers quilt for $235.Michael Albanese of Kendall, New York, specializes in baskets from Peru and the Southwest, priced from $200 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evergreen: Gustav Stickley at Treadway-Toomey
A 1901 Gustav Stickley library table, a variation of model no. 454, with original leather top, inverted tapered legs, through-tenon construction, two drawers with original iron hardware, a central blind drawer, and original finish and tacks, brought $390,400.John Toomey Gallery displayed the 1901 Gustav Stickley library table front and center ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Epperson Estate Sale
"D-Lish-Us Gum" vending machine, 1¢, cast iron with a porcelain-on-steel nameplate, $7300.Turtle made by Uhl Pottery Company, marked on base, the largest size produced, $1700.Stoneware Christmas tree holder marked "Red Wing Union Stoneware Co., Red Wing, Minn., Patent Applied For" and "Christmas Tree Holder," $900.Wheel-type nutmeg grater, 7" long, $100.Woodmanse ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: A Powerful Triplet
by Steve ProffittThese days the postman most often delivers electronically. A nice man sent me this e-mail: "In a recent issue of M.A.D., there was an article on an auction in which a piece of art sold for more than a million dollars. A well-known dealer, who did not have ... (Read More)
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