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(Feature)See "America" This Summer
The Cape Ann Museum (formerly the Cape Ann Historical Association) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is exhibiting a painting and marine telescope related to the yacht America in its Fitz Henry Lane Gallery until late October. The painting and telescope have been lent from the private collection of Alan Granby and Janice ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Works of Art Spark Prices at Willis Henry Auction
An oil on canvas seascape signed by Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904), showing two men rowing to a two-masted sailing vessel on a calm sea, 12" x 20", made $65,520. Two other Gifford paintings (not shown) were among the dozen lots scoring the upper-end prices. A 9¼" x 14¼" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Change in Deduction for Charitable Contributions in the Works
by Daniel GrantThe absence of any mention of President Obama's plan to reduce the deduction for charitable contributions for the very wealthy in the budget proposal passed by the U.S. House and Senate on April 29 does not mean that the initiative is dead. According to a number of associations ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Cancels Aspen Show
Washington, D.C.-based promoter Armacost Antiques Shows has canceled its Aspen Art & Antiques Show, scheduled for July 1-6 in Aspen, Colorado."With fewer than 20 dealers committed as of May 1, and only 60 days remaining before the planned opening of the event, the decision to cancel the show seems the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
David Cotton and Heather Malott of Cotton’s Antiques,Wabash, Indiana, featured a booth with British Colonial and garden themes, “anything with a romantic feel to it.”David Drummond of Lititz, Pennsylvania, offered two wooden industrial boxes (hanging, back left) at $90 each and a workbench (back right) from Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1915, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shotguns and Jacobsen Pace Cobbs Auction
Antonio Jacobsen ship portrait of the Ada Bailey, $27,600.James Purdey & Sons side-by-side 20-gauge shotgun, circa 1951, $32,200.The pair of red Chinese covered jars in baluster form, decorated with white and dark blue domestic scenes, 17" tall, probably 19th century, finished up at a big $6900 (est. $1000/1500). Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wedgwood's 250th Anniversary Celebration Dampened by Bankruptcy
by Karla Klein AlbertsonPhotos courtesy Birmingham Museum of ArtCurator of decorative arts Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, Ph.D., will be researching the extensive Buten Wedgwood collection recently acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art.The Birmingham Museum of Art has acquired the Buten Wedgwood collection, on display from 1957 until 1988 in Merion, Pennsylvania. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Lamps, Rare Stoneware, and Some Shaker
The top lot of the sale was this 64" tall Tiffany Studios floor lamp with a Maple Leaf pattern shade. The base was signed “Tiffany Studios, NY, 387,” and the shade was 22" in diameter. Opening at $50,000, it sold to a private collector on the phone for $103,500.Cottone Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Northeast Auctions: The Highs Were Very High; the Lows, Very Low
The miniature (1½" x 1¼") portrait on ivory of Washington, after the Charles Willson Peale portrait done at Princeton, engendered quite a bidding war between Richard Manney and a phone bidder. The phone bidder prevailed at $106,470.Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshireby David HewettPhotos courtesy Andrew Davis, Northeast AuctionsThe one inescapable ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Recently Discovered Boynton Stoneware Cooler Highlights Spring Ceramics Sale
Measuring just under 13" high, the record-setting Boynton cooler is relatively small. The keg-form cooler was produced by Jonah and Calvin Boynton, brothers whose pottery was located on Washington Street in Albany, New York. Bearing their upper case maker’s mark of “Boynton” on the reverse side, the piece is incised ... (Read More)
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