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(Show)Greenbrier Hosts First Annual Antiques Show
The Greenbrier is referred to as one of the “grand” hotels. No argument.Father and daughter David and Elizabeth Lindquist of Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, offered a George III open-shelf oak dresser/cupboard from the English Midlands, 1765-80, for $22,000. The drawer fronts feature mahogany crossbanding and inlay details. On ... (Read More)
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(Show)Autumn Hartford Antiques Show Seems to Be a Winner
C. Neville Lewis was one of the six exhibitors chosen to give what Frank Gaglio termed booth chats, mini-lectures under the general heading “Knowledge Is King.” The lectures were more successful than he had imagined, Gaglio said later, and will be used again in the future.Roberto Freitas American Antiques & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column contains some very expensive things indeed and news of record prices for English furniture, Audubon's The Birds of America, and the flower paintings of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, but I will kick off with something much more modestly priced but directly relevant to this New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Greek Maiden Lights Up Evans Sale
The high lot of the sale was this single caryatid-form candlestick in a strongly marbled deep sapphire blue pressed as a single unit. The catalog noted that this piece may be unique, as no other examples of this form in this color have been noted. The central Greekinspired form features ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Antiques Roadshow" Schedule
Antiques Roadshow, PBS's most-watched prime time series, has announced its summer 2011 tour destinations. Stops and dates include Eugene, Oregon, June 4; El Paso, Texas, June 18; Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9; Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 23; Atlanta, Georgia, August 6; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 13. Programs taped in those locations will ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Wing at Boston Museum: Worth a Trip from Anywhere
Museum of Fine Arts, Bostonby Jeanne SchintoA view of all four levels of the new wing from the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard. Photograph © Chuck Choi.The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard on the morning of the press conference and donor/guest reception. Constructed almost entirely of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts and the Fifth Pennsylvania Sale
This circa 1755 clock in a walnut case, carved probably by Nicholas Bernard of Philadelphia, has works by Edward Duffield. Estimated at $80,000/120,000, it sold in the salesroom to dealer Jim Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, for $193,000. Edward Duffield is much revered. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was executor ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old-Fashioned Auction at Grogan--"The Way It Should Be"
The sale’s top lot at $57,500 (est. $300/500) was a Chinese carved pale green jade bowl, 7½" in diameter. It came from the Cecile Parker Carver estate.Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy GroganGrogan & Company pulled in more than $2 million at its annual fall two-day auction on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Harnett's Golden Horseshoe Brings Good Luck
The Golden Horseshoe by William M. Harnett (1848-1892) was the sale’s star lot, selling to a private collector on the phone for $552,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). Dated 1886, the 16" x 14" oil on canvas has been widely exhibited and published.Above: a 42¾" x 56½" untitled oil on canvas by RolphScarlett ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques & Art at the Armory
Milord Antiques, Montreal, Canada, asked $15,500 for the Leleu table with two 18" leaves. It is 49" in diameter without the leaves and 85" wide with the two leaves. The chairs by Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, 1950, were $6500 for the four. The Bugatti desk, chairs, and table, a suite of ... (Read More)
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