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(Auction)Americana Sale
This excellent red and white appliquéd Princess Feathers and Stars quilt on white ground in original unlaundered condition with very fine quilting sold for $3300 to a local collector.The trade bought this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Dutch cupboard with ocher paint-graining and blue interior for $7000.This 16½" high x 10" wide ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Second Lawsuit Filed against Gallery
by Daniel GrantConsider this the other shoe dropping.In March, artist Dana Melamed brought a lawsuit alleging fraud against her Manhattan art gallery, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, for selling a group of her mixed-media works at Art Basel in 2009 to a single buyer for $143,650 but informing her that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)No Bigger but Still Better
A rare 18th-century English Staffordshire comb and slip decorated dish was $3900 with John Philbrick of Ogunquit, Maine. "It's pipe clay," he explained. It's common to find shards in Colonial America, he said, but it was definitely made in England.This late 19th-century patriotically painted parade drum with an Ohio maker's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction
Lucie Rie (Austrian, 1902-1995) is the most celebrated and widely collected of all 20th-century ceramists. She studied under Michael Powolny at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, and in 1938 Rie moved to London to escape Jewish persecution. By 1950 she was established as one of Britain's leading ceramists, together with her one-time ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highest Lot in Freeman's History
On September 10, Freeman's in Philadelphia sold a Chinese imperial-style double dragon white jade seal for $3,513,000 (includes buyer's premium). It was the highest-selling single lot in the history of the company.Freeman's president, Paul Roberts, said from the auction floor, "This is not far from the total turnover for Freeman's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Americana Auction Season Begins
$77,025. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.$146,500. Photo courtesy Sotheby's.$986,500. Photo courtesy Christie's.One of a pair of marine paintings by James Buttersworth that sold for $158,750. Photo courtesy Keno Auctions.by Lita Solis-CohenThe summer was barely over and the $8.6 million spent at Northeast Auctions' August sales in Manchester and Portsmouth, New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Consignor Protection Bill Introduced in New York
by Betty FloodLegislation to provide increased protections for consignors (and their heirs) has been introduced by New York Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal. The protections would occur when their works of art fall under the fiduciary care of a consignee or art merchant, and the legislation would mandate that such works of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Horn That Cost Plenty
Top lot of the sale was this carved rhinoceros horn libation cup, 3½" x 6½". It took up all the phones from an opening at $156,000 to a closing at $230,000. Why? That is what everyone was asking. Some answers were rarity, age (16th/17th century), and it was Chinese and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Marine and China Trade Sale
An oil on canvas by James Bard (1815-1897) of the sloop American Eagle, one of only three sloop paintings Bard ever did, 32" x 52", sold to a phone bidder for $212,400, underbid by Massachusetts and Ohio dealer Bill Samaha. The American Eagle, built by John L. Wooley, is shown ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys Fly High, Art Treads Water at O'Brien's Summer Sale
A circa 1912 running curlew by Crowell sold for $247,250. It is a new price record for a decorative shorebird by the maker-and perhaps any maker. Given the construction, carving technique, and paint application, it is believed to be the earliest of all known Crowell decorative curlews and likely made ... (Read More)
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