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(Feature)Paintings Sale Is Encouraging
La Jolla Beach by Guy Rose (1867-1925), oil on canvas, 24" x 29", sold for $410,000 (est. $350,000/550,000), the auction's highest price, to a private collector who lives in La Jolla.Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Moraine and Meadow, Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California, 1924, oil on canvas, 25¼" x 30¾", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show: A Market Uptick
The roses in the dividers on Park Avenue by sculptor Will Ryman sprouted during the show, some with aphids and beetles, suggesting that "everything's coming up roses."This large (23" diameter) Chinese export porcelain christening bowl, Qianlong/ Jiaqing period, circa 1795, was made for the American market and has sepia landscapes—one ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Jewelry Auctions
This platinum and 7.60-carat emerald-cut diamond ring, accompanied by a GIA report stating that the diamond is J color, VS1 clarity, sold for $134,500 (est. $60,000/80,000). Sotheby's.Of the top five lots at Sotheby's February sale, four were platinum and emerald-cut diamond rings. This signed Cartier example, in a signed Cartier ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moran Joins Leslie Hindman
Mark F. Moran has joined Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in the fine furniture and decorative arts and business development departments. He will perform appraisals and work with estate planners in regions west of Chicago, primarily in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.Moran has worked in the antiques business for over 30 years and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Daniels to Sell Illustration Collection
The Little Black Hen by E.H. Shepard.A decade after selling their folk art at auction, collectors Kendra and Allan Daniel will sell children's illustration art at Sotheby's on April 11 in New York City. The artwork features characters such as Babar, Madeline, the Brownies, Christopher Robin, and Raggedy Ann. Artists ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maloney Receives ISA Media Award
Certified appraiser and veteran appraisal course writer, author, and instructor David J. Maloney Jr. of Appraisal Course Associates has received the 2011 International Society of Appraisers' (ISA) Media Award for his book Appraising Personal Property: Principles & Methodology, 4th Edition.Published by Appraisers Press in 2010, the 570-page book is a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design Sales at Sotheby's
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Ventru sideboard, model 2019 AR, 2126 NR. This is one of a pair executed in September 1929 of Macassar ebony veneer over oak, with ivory marquetry and silvered bronze feet. The 33¼" x 33¼" x 20" sideboard is branded "Ruhlmann" and with the "A" atelier mark. Bidding opened ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Syd Levethan's Longridge Collection
A 16½" diameter London delft polychrome dish, dated 1638, Southwark, Pickleherring Quay or Montague Close, the underside painted in blue with the initials "RI," perhaps for Richard Irons, sold for $218,500 (est. $120,000/180,000) to a collector on the phone and became the most expensive piece of delft in the Longridge ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stella Pier Show Takes the Chill Out
Harry and Ginny’s Antiques, Brookhaven, New York, gave a French accent to its booth with a display of French enamelware from 1900 to 1940 that included salt holders, match safes, and utensil holders. (Sel is the French word for salt; allumettes means matches). The holders were about $200 each. “Prices ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Antiques Show
Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, offered a collection of firefighting equipment models from the large collection deaccessioned by the Smithsonian at Pook & Pook last fall. A hand-drawn ladder truck was $10,500, and a hose reel was $9500. The painted steam train below, 1890-1900, was $7800. It is standing on ... (Read More)
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