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(Auction)"We went to Europe and well, bought a few things for the house," The Chinqua-Penn Sale
*Margaret “Betsy” Penn, as quoted in the Leland Little catalog.This is the front entrance to Chinqua-Penn as seen from the pagoda. The Penns purchased the Chinese carved stone Ming Dynasty style Spirit Road animals-the camel on the left and the reclining horse on the right-in China in 1923. The camel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale Deemed "Robust"
Southern Plains Indian Warrior by Henry F. Farny (1847-1916), a 16" x 11" gouache on paper, sold for $362,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a dealer in Santa Fe who was on the telephone. When he heard the opening bid of $100,000, he immediately bid $200,000. Levitt said the "very rare" painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Woodstock Antique Show Reborn
Kelly Taylor of Kelly Taylor's American Country Antiques, Davenport, Iowa, stands by a $6300 early American lounging sofa of poplar, pine, and chestnut with original surfaces and exposed base construction. Dating it to around 1810, based on the square nails used, Taylor thinks it functioned as a resting spot at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orientalia Still Hot
Eighteenth-century Japanese wooden Buddha, seated in the lotus position on a lotus-shaped giltwood base, $7475.There didn't seem to be one particular standout in this small collection of four miniature jade carvings, all in white or celadon nephrite jade. The largest was only about 2" long. They obliterated the $300/600 estimate, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)East Meets West on the Shores of Lake Pontchartrain
Top lot of the sale was this pair of simple, elegant Chinese huanghuali stools from the New Orleans estate of Irene S. Chandler that sold for $69,310 (est. $10,000/15,000).Distinguished by its unusual subject matter, a very large (43½" x 66¾") painting of Prisoner's Escort, A Scene from the Crimean War ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Marburger Farm Antique Show
This lovely pre-Civil War pull cart is all original except for its new canvas canopy. Dick and Mary Flynn of Country House Antiques, Marshall, Michigan, brought it for their 35th trip to Marburger, saying "It's one of our best shows...plus the people are so nice!" They priced it at $1895.Mary ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Coca-Cola Soda Fountain Wows at Auction
The marble soda fountain built by the Liquid Carbonic Company for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 sold for $5,175,000 to an anonymous phone bidder. The front counter is 3'6" high x 21' long, and the back bar is 10' high overall x 19'9" long.The work involved to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paperwork Loss Leads to Lawsuit
by Daniel GrantBad things sometimes happen to art—a guy puts his elbow through the canvas, an assemblage sculpture is carted out with the trash, a bronze is stolen to be melted down, things get dropped and break, a Picasso gets spray-painted—you name it. Here's a new twist. Nothing happened to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840 Part I, The Early Years
Figure 1A. Emma Jo (Thompson Bousquet) Langerak setting her watch to the Thomas Williams tall-case clock with engraved brass dial. The beveled glass in the trunk door is a later addition. Originally this clock had a solid walnut tombstone-shaped door. Photo was taken circa 1920 in Pella, Iowa, and is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Charlottesville Antiques Show on Ice
Roger D. Winter offered these two ship portraits, the S.S. Sheldrake and the S.S. Kirk Lee, both cargo steamers. Both are circa 1910. They were marked to sell as a pair for $2500. The large crab trade sign dates from the 1930's and was originally used at a Camden, Maine, ... (Read More)
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