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(Auction)Oriental and Decorative Strong at Northeast Sale
The 5 7/8" diameter Chinese porcelain bowl had lovely color and form, and the seal of Daoguang on the base dated it to 1821-50. A similarly marked pair of 123/4" high vases in a Famille Rose pattern brought an astounding $902,500 at Christie's on September 15, 2009. They were from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadian Reference Book Pieces Achieve Solid Prices at Auction
The tall clock by Simon Willard, circa 1810, had a great deal going for it and became the top lot of the Ingolfsrud collection, selling at $63,250. May 16.A walnut blanket box with dovetailed construction and bracket ogee feet soared to $10,350, leaving its $150/250 estimate far, far behind. May ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Bad Selling Redux
by Steve ProffittLast month I wrote about one of my sharpest peeves-how we frequently "sell" ourselves into bad spots. We make bad buys, get into bad jams, fall for bad scams, suffer bad losses, and get bitten by bad deals. No one holds a gun to our heads. We do ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine Show 2010
Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $3750 for the unsigned Thomas Willis school silk and paint picture of boats in a tramp art frame. The bowl on the William and Mary chest was $3350, and the mirrored sconce is one of a pair for $3350 the pair. The table ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"An Excellent Adventure:" A Fitting Tribute to Bowmanville Show Founder
A late 18th- or early 19th-century burl bowl, ex-Gordon Baker collection and illustrated in Howard Pain's The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture, figure 582,sold for $6050. Thompson photo.This watercolor portrait of James Gauntley, Bowmanville, circa 1835, was the top lot of the sale at $15,400.A mid-19th-century glazed corner cupboardfrom Millbrook, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Miss Edgerton's Ye Colonial Shoppe" or Women in the Trade, Part Two
by Jeanne Schinto"You've sold all my things. You've sold my mother's china. You sold the rugs. You sold the portraits. You've made a business out of it-selling the past. What kind of a business is that-selling the past?"-from "Publick House," John Cheever, The New Yorker, August 16, 1941The cover of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Maine Shuts the Door
Losing isn't easy. When Maine lost two court rulings in Virginia regarding a broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, it stung.In July 1776, the Massachusetts Executive Council ordered that copies of the Declaration be printed and delivered to ministers of all churches in Massachusetts so it could be read ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Country Sale in the North Carolina Mountains
The top furniture lot and the second-highest lot of the sale was a two-piece French cabinet with scrolled and carved crown, open shelves, and two doors above. Below were one small drawer, two angled doors, and a carved skirt. It sold for $1485. The top lot of the sale at ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burk Show Rolls Into Its 40th Year
The pillar and scroll shelf clock from Allentown, Pennsylvania, had a Black Forest movement from Europe. The dial and tablet were original and on tin. It was priced at $12,500 from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, dealer Kelly Kinzle. The Severin Roesen still-life painting was $55,000, and the inlaid cutlery box was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strongest Painting Sale Ever---without a Fitz Henry Lane
At the Grand Prix by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), an 111/2" x 81/4" (sight size) pastel and graphite on paper/board, brought the top price of the day, $699,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). Signed "Childe/Hassam," it was inscribed "given to me by A.L.A. for Victorian Room" on a label from the Worth Avenue Gallery, ... (Read More)
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