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(Auction)The J. Harlan Miller Estate Sale
A rare and very good condition four-color rainbow spatter loop pattern bulbous-form cream pitcher with yellow, blue, red, and green alternating bands, 3½" high, sold to dealer John D. Querry for $17,600.This three-color red and blue Drape pattern spatter handleless cup and saucer with green dots is a rare pattern ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Doyle's
New York City dealer W. Graham Arader bidding from the back of the room paid $80,500 (est. $15,000/25,000) for Robert Havell Jr.’s Death of a Warrior: White Headed Eagle, Canvas Back Duck & Young, signed and dated 1871, numbered 78, titled in ink on the reverse, and faintly inscribed in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Failures Beget Success at Printed and Manuscript Americana Sale
The sale’s top lot, an 1836 manuscriptpetition from the Cherokees pleading to be spared from relocation and a forced march along the Trail of Tears, sold for $78,000 (est. $30,000/ 40,000). It came from a private collector who’d had it about 30 years, said Rick Stattler.A South Carolina collector paid ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Auction in New York
The top lot of the sale was a marine painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865), A Smart Blow: Ships Passing, signed and dated on the lower right “F.H. Lane 1856,” 24½" x 36 3/8". Lane worked in a style that would later be called Luminism for its use of pervasive ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ben Shahn Auction Shines
The walnut platform bed made for the Shahns by their good friend George Nakashima is signed with the name Ben Shahn. It sold for $34,160 (est. $5000/7000). "It was an unusual form and had its base," said Robert Aibel of Moderne Gallery, Philadelphia, who deals in Nakashima pieces, but its ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Urban Cowboys
They aren't putting up the numbers that the local heavyweights do, but Heritage Auctions, the Dallasbased auction house, has stepped into the New York City auction market, most recently with five specialty auctions in three days in early December 2010.From December 3 to 5, Heritage staged sales for fine timepieces, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ken Farmer Sells Contents of Forest Oaks
Forest Oaks This English oak William and Mary chest-onframe was the high lot of the sale at $2185 (est. $2000/ 3000). The 66" x 44" x 22½" chest dates from 1740 and exhibits nailed construction. The upper case is topped with a simple cornice above a two-over-three-drawer case with fluted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Auction in Connecticut
The top lot of the sale was a marine painting by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865), A Smart Blow: Ships Passing, signed and dated on the lower right “F.H. Lane 1856,” 24½" x 36 3/8". Lane worked in a style that would later be called Luminism for its use of pervasive ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fifth Annual Country Living Fair
David T. Smith of the Workshops of David T. Smith, Morrow, Ohio, is known for his museum-quality reproduction 18th- and 19th-century furniture, pottery, Windsor chairs, and kitchens, but at the fair he also had on hand this wonderful slip-decorated redware charger with a central floral design with green leaves and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Martin Webster, West Branch Antiques, Delhi, New York
Martin Webster.Two molds with carved blossoms, fruit, leaves, and vines, with some of the motifs suggesting an Asian origin, are $185 each.A large wallpapered box, covered inside with well-preserved black and white posters advertising the third annual cattle show and fair of the Farmington Valley Agricultural Society in Otis, Massachusetts, ... (Read More)
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