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Yavapai Apache figural olla, circa 1900, with 53 figures including dogs, deer, and people plus intricate banded motifs of triangles, 20½" high x 18½" diameter, with stitch loss around the shoulder and minimal stitch loss on the body, $41,125.Smoke Signal by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 25" ... (Read More)
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This watercolor on ivory, mounted as a brooch, depicts Ellen Louisa Tucker (1811-1831), firstwife of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The cashmere shawl in the background came to the museum with this note: This shawl came from Aunt Marys 252 Beacon Street Bostonand must be the shawl which belonged to the first ... (Read More)
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by David Hewett
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961, sold for $31,442,500 at Sotheby’s on May 12.
How do you keep secret a link in the chain of provenance of a major artwork that is to be sold at auction? Does ... (Read More)
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Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & PookThis Mahantongo Valley, Pennsylvania, painted poplar dower chest has a center panel inscribed John Kesler den/ 16 Junius 1814/ in under Mahantango/ Taunschip Schuhl Caunty, flanked by two panels of stylized tulips and a vase of flowers. The chest is ... (Read More)
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The Greenwich (Connecticut) Historical Society will not hold the Greenwich Antiques Show in conjunction with its year-end fund-raiser, Antiquarius, in 2010.The historical society will continue to hold its popular annual Antiquarius House Tour and Holiday Boutique in early December and plans to add new fund-raising activities and programs to the ... (Read More)
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A Louis XVI 18th-century bookcase fromPorto, Portugal was $22,000 from Eric Vanpoucke of Antica Collection, Houston, Texas. Made of pioppo wood, with original paint and a rebuilt side, it was originally inserted in a pharmacy wall.Maggie Langdon of Austin, Texas, offered this display bin for nails and screws, from San ... (Read More)
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Because of strong attendance, the Greenwich Historical Society in Greenwich, Connecticut, has extended its current exhibition, A Stitch in Time: Quilts from the Collection, to August 29. The exhibition was originally scheduled to close on June 13.A number of the historically significant quilts in the exhibition have never been shown ... (Read More)
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A George I silver gilt ewer (9" tall) and basin (10 7/8" diameter) by Paul de Lamerie, London, England, 1714-16, sold for $61,000.01 after the auction. This set is among the earliest extant examples of de Lameries work.The enamel and silver gilt clock, Carl Fabergé, workmaster Henrik Wigström, St. Petersburg, ... (Read More)
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A Book Reviewby A.J. Peluso Jr.J.E.Buttersworth: 19th Century Marine Painterby Rudolph J. Schaefer. Revised and updated by Andrew W. German and Janet U. Schaefer, Mystic Seaport, 2009, 269 pp., hardbound, $150 plus S/H from Mystic Seaport, (860) 572-5386, (www.mysticseaport.org).Note the title of this new book. The incomparable original, published in ... (Read More)
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by Daniel GrantIn all other respects, the sale of 133 lots of furniture and decorative objects designed by husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames at Wright auction house in Chicago on April 8 took place without a hitch. It did reasonably well, realizing $344,896 (includes buyers' premiums) for the sale ... (Read More)
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