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(Auction)The Cobbs Kick the Buckets to Twelve Grand
Pair of Salem, Massachusetts, fire buckets, reading "N.F. Safford/ 1803," with eagle, stars, and banner decoration, $12,650. Cobbs photo.An early Native American pipe tomahawk with a cast-iron head and brass studs decorating the stem sold for $3737.50, despite some damage to the edge of the bowl (est. $800/1200). Cobbs photo.A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highlights of Schultz Auction
Several pieces of lighting by Tiffany were offered. A floor lamp with jeweled shade (shown) brought $43,125. An Acorn lamp reached $14,950, and a lamp with three lily shades fetched $5462.50.Schultz Auctioneers, Clarence, New Yorkby Charles E. WennerPhotos courtesy Schultz AuctioneersKelly and Ben Schultz held a two-day auction at their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American, Nepalese, and Mexican Artworks Lead Thomaston Sale
A 9" x 12" (sight size) oil on board by William Aiken Walker (1838-1921) depicting a Black family on the porch of a ramshackle sharecropper's cabin sold for $26,450.This oil on canvas attributed to Mexican artist Mariano Rodriguez Pelaez, 23" x 31" (sight size), showing the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico ... (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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(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, 251/4" x 303/4", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design Sales at Sotheby's
Emile-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 331/4" x 331/4" 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 161/2" 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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