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(Auction)Herington Jug Excels in Specialty Ceramics Auction
The historic Gorsuch Barn is the location of the new Crocker Farm gallery auction facility. Located in Sparks, Maryland, it is roughly 30 miles south of the York Fairgrounds, where they had previously held sales. Sparks is in Baltimore County and nearly 20 miles north of the city. Pass photo.This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mysterious East, Middle East, and Eurasia
A copy of Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov's Russian-language catalog of the medieval Byzantine enamels collected by wealthy St. Petersburg collector Alexander Zvenigorodski sold on the phone for $83,375. It is going to Russia, Michael Grogan said. Schinto photos.Jeune Femme en Profile by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) sold on the phone for $54,625 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20th-Century Design Auction
This monumental desk, 38 1/8" x 96½" x 43¼", of oak, leather, and chromium-plated metal was designed by Jacques Adnet in the 1930's. It sold for $80,500 (est. $40,000/60,000).Enthusiastic buyers seem to vie for Tiffany at every level. This pair of circa 1910 geometric and turtleback tile wall sconces of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Americana and English Sale
This French memorial clock by Jean-Baptiste Dubuc commemorating George Washington was made for the American market. It is signed "Dubuc/ Rue Michel-le-Comte No. 33/ A Paris," and the mainspring is dated 1815. The plinth with drapery swag was cast with a eulogy: "The First in War, First in Peace/ And ... (Read More)
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(Show)Opening Gun Sounds at Fort Andross
Appraiser Daniel Buck of Lisbon, Maine, showed a variety of upscale paintings, including this oil on canvas by Eric Sloane (1905-1985), Spring House, in the original Sloane frame, signed front and back, for $11,500.Jim Montell of Gardiner, Maine, had two matching seaweed mocha mugs with brown center backgrounds and blue ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques Show
This Long Island dressing table is similar to one illustrated in Dean Failey's Long Island Is My Nation. It has similar pointed shoe feet, shell-carved knees on cabriole legs, notched corners on its top, and figured wood used for the drawer fronts. It was $19,500 from Jamie Price, and it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mr. and Mrs. William G. and Mary E. Yorke: Painters of Ship Portraits
From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, "A Cruise in the Erie Basin," December 1892. Entitled "The Marine Studio," this actually shows the Yorkes' studio and home. The illustrator is not identified.Above, the sloop Defyer, oil on canvas, 20½" x 24", unsigned, $10,665; below, the sloop Albatross (in moonlight), oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer Sues Over a Sale Made and a Sale Not Made
by Daniel GrantWith eight branch locations around the world, the Manhattan-based Gagosian Gallery sells a lot of art to a lot of people. A lawsuit filed by a British collector in U.S. District Court in New York City on March 10 takes issue with a sale that the gallery made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ansel Adams Negatives Case Settled
by Daniel GrantIn an out-of-court settlement reached between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, a California school maintenance worker, photographic prints made from a group of 65 negatives found by Norsigian at a garage sale may be sold but not with Ansel Adams's name, likeness, or trademark. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Not Only Funny: Stinger Wins Award at NOVA Show
Fall Sunrise—Lambertville, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", painted from New Hope looking into Lambertville.John Stinger, impressionist landscape painter and cartoonist for Maine Antique Digest, recently won the Alan Fetterman Award for best oil painting at the NOVA Galaxy Art Show held in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.The Stewartsville, New Jersey, ... (Read More)
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