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(Fragment)Jade Ship Comes In at $57,500
Jade ship, 9" long, on a carved wood stand, $57,500.A Chinese antique jade ship sold for $57,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Manor Auctions in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 19.The ship was part of a jade collection uncovered in the closet of a rural Florida home. According to Manor Auctions, representatives ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Joins the Licenses for "Secondhand" Dealers Parade
by David HewettOn the last day of January, another state took the first step in joining California, Maryland, Arizona, and the municipalities of New York City; Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Allen Park, Michigan; Moorhead, Minnesota; Watertown and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Boulder, Colorado; and scores of others in requiring licenses for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Cobbs Kick the Buckets to Twelve Grand
Pair of Salem, Massachusetts, fire buckets, reading "N.F. Safford/ 1803," with eagle, stars, and banner decoration, $12,650. Cobbs photo.An early Native American pipe tomahawk with a cast-iron head and brass studs decorating the stem sold for $3737.50, despite some damage to the edge of the bowl (est. $800/1200). Cobbs photo.A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highlights of Schultz Auction
Several pieces of lighting by Tiffany were offered. A floor lamp with jeweled shade (shown) brought $43,125. An Acorn lamp reached $14,950, and a lamp with three lily shades fetched $5462.50.Schultz Auctioneers, Clarence, New Yorkby Charles E. WennerPhotos courtesy Schultz AuctioneersKelly and Ben Schultz held a two-day auction at their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chief's Blanket a Winner, Pre-Columbian Lots Withdrawn
The sale's top lot, a 55" x 67" early third-phase Navajo chief's blanket, sold on the phone for $213,300 (est. $5000/7000). The stripes are natural white and dark brown with indigo-dyed blues. The triangles are the same colors shot through with dyed reds. Condition, including old repairs and wool losses, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American, Nepalese, and Mexican Artworks Lead Thomaston Sale
A 9" x 12" (sight size) oil on board by William Aiken Walker (1838-1921) depicting a Black family on the porch of a ramshackle sharecropper's cabin sold for $26,450.This oil on canvas attributed to Mexican artist Mariano Rodriguez Pelaez, 23" x 31" (sight size), showing the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico ... (Read More)
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(Feature)After 100 Years an Important Sprinchorn Makes a Long Journey Back to Maine
Blue Landscape by Carl Sprinchorn, 1911, oil on canvas, 30" x 39", collection of the Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society. The discovery of this painting in Sweden offers an opportunity to explore the initial meaning of Maine for Sprinchorn's career as well as a chance for Mainers to take a closer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paintings Sale Is Encouraging
La Jolla Beach by Guy Rose (1867-1925), oil on canvas, 24" x 29", sold for $410,000 (est. $350,000/550,000), the auction's highest price, to a private collector who lives in La Jolla.Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Moraine and Meadow, Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California, 1924, oil on canvas, 25¼" x 30¾", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show: A Market Uptick
The roses in the dividers on Park Avenue by sculptor Will Ryman sprouted during the show, some with aphids and beetles, suggesting that "everything's coming up roses."This large (23" diameter) Chinese export porcelain christening bowl, Qianlong/ Jiaqing period, circa 1795, was made for the American market and has sepia landscapes—one ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Jewelry Auctions
This platinum and 7.60-carat emerald-cut diamond ring, accompanied by a GIA report stating that the diamond is J color, VS1 clarity, sold for $134,500 (est. $60,000/80,000). Sotheby's.Of the top five lots at Sotheby's February sale, four were platinum and emerald-cut diamond rings. This signed Cartier example, in a signed Cartier ... (Read More)
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