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(Auction)Kennedy Blanket Brings $14,400
This navy-blue lap robe embroidered with the presidential seal, one of two from the presidential limousine of President John F. Kennedy, sold to a Texas museum for $14,400. McInnis photo.
This Federal period portrait miniature of a gentleman, 3" x 2¼", in a 14k gold frame in the original presentation case ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unusual Mix of American, Continental, and Asian Objects
This riverine landscape by French artist Charles François Daubigny (1817-1878) came from a New Jersey collection and sold for $38,400. The painting retained a paper label of the Parisian gilder and framer on the back. CRN Auctions photo.
A Connecticut collection of Latin American items was also the source of this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Auction Tops $1 Million
Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), Caballero, graphite on paper, 25" x 23½", $44,400.
The single lot by Minnie Evans (1892-1987) sold for $30,000. From the artist’s personal collection, it had been displayed in the 1986 exhibition Heavenly Visions: The Art of Minnie Evans at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. The exhibit ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Garden Furniture Fair
Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, had a welcoming booth.
A new paint collection, inspired by the New York Botanical Garden, was introduced at the Antique Garden Furniture Fair. The NYBG partnered with paint manufacturer Prestige; purchases of the paint, available on Amazon.com, support the garden.
Francis J. Purcell displayed lanterns, carriage lamps, Art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metro Show Canceled for 2016
For the last four years, on the first weekend of Americana Week in New York City in January, the Art Fair Company has promoted the Metro Show (renamed this year Metro Curates) at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea. In a letter to exhibitors in mid-March, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)TV Guide (to Antiques)
The Young Collector
Librarians get asked lots of odd questions—can you help me find the red cookbook I was looking at last week, what foods float, am I divorced? (yes, seriously, all of those)—but many of them would say their favorite question comes when someone just wants a good book to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Anne and Jeff Miller Sale
This oil on canvas view of St. Joseph’s Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, mid- to late 19th century, with buildings including a church in the landscape, was bought at Northeast Auctions by Milly McGehee in 1998 for $27,600. Fifteen years later it sold for slightly less—$26,400 (est. $8000/12,000) to Lititz, Pennsylvania, dealer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pastels Rule the Day
This Northwood ice-blue stippled Strawberry ruffled bowl with a basketweave back sold for $18,000. Ice blue is among the rarest pastel colors, and this bowl further had a mix of unusual features of a basketweave back and stippled treatment. The bowl was the top-selling lot of the auction.
Northwood stippled Strawberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Texans' Clock Collection Sells in Massachusetts
Peter Sawyer took home this Joseph Nye Dunning wall clock for the second time. It has an eight-day time-only weight-driven brass movement typical of banjo-style wall clocks, but the shaped mahogany case is distinctive and especially attractive. It made $30,750. Two other rare Dunning clocks also brought strong prices.
One of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Property from the Oprah Winfrey Collections
At $45,000, The Little Mother by Hovsep Pushman was the top lot. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
Some things are simply unexplainable. The set of six rabbit placeholders, estimated at $100/200, sold at $531. Hindman photo.
Visually striking, the circa 1900 Viennese ebonized dressing table measured 28" x 27½" x 19¾" and ... (Read More)
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