MAINE ANTIQUE DIGEST

Hudson Antique Show
January 11 & 12, 2020

The Hudson Antique Show has 50 dealers from around the country
showcasing some of the best folk art, furniture, artwork, and Americana

OHIO DEALERS VERMONT DEALERS INDIANA DEALERS Jim and Diane Farr
Comet Lake Stephen-Douglas Don Orwig Dan Freeburg
Doc’s Crocks Sandy Hart
WISCONSIN DEALERS MICHIGAN DEALERS
Early American Antiques Brendan Edgerton Bob Ketelhut Ivy Hill Primitives
Matthew Ehresman Rush Antiques Tex Johnson & Son Antiques
Deborah Fisher NEW HAMPSHIRE DEALERS
Karen Fults John Rogers MASSACHUSETTS DEALERS Greg Kramer
John Kolar Rona Andrews Wilhide’s Antiques
Jane Langol NEW YORK DEALERS CONNECTICUT DEALERS
Mongenas Antiques Axtell Antiques Perkins & Menson
Scherre Mumpower PENNSYLVANIA DEALERS Derik Pulito
Carol Schulman Dan & Karen Olson Sue Wirth
Chris Smith Ponzi’s Antiques As Good As Old MISSOURI DEALERS
Wesley Williams Tom Brown Missouri Plain Folk
Gene Pratt MAINE DEALERS
Western Reserve Antiques Steve White Robert Conrad Frank Wood
White & White Antiques Francis Crespo

Days Inn - Richfield, Ohio
4742 Brecksville Rd., Richfield, OH 44286

January 11 & 12, 2020
Saturday 10:00 - 5:00 • Sunday 11:00 - 4:00

Admission $10.00

Discounts available for groups of 10 or more that are prepaid in advance of the show.

Tel: 330.207.2196 • www.hudsonantiqueshow.com

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AFUECATUIORNE

Doyle, New York City

Doyle’s American Paintings, Furniture,
and Decorative Arts Auction

by Julie Schlenger Adell
Photos courtesy Doyle

“Normally I don’t come to auctions because you The top lot of the sale was this Tiffany
can get the fever,” proclaimed a man to M.A.D. & Co. parcel-gilt sterling silver ice
just before the start of Doyle’s fall American bowl designed circa 1877 by Edward
paintings, furniture, and decorative arts sale on October 8, C. Moore. It sold for $125,000 (est.
2019. “I usually prebid,” he explained. $25,000/35,000). The bowl is decorated
with Japonesque water lilies and
And with that the well-attended auction took off. Portraits dragonflies on a base of ice dripping
came first. A particularly fetching one by Ammi Phillips with icicles and with two polar bears.
(1788-1865) sold to an online bidder for $8125 (with buyer’s Specialist Todd Sell noted that polar
premium); it was estimated at $8000/12,000. The subject was bears were cast and used on other
Maria Van Leuvan Overbagh, whom Phillips painted as part Tiffany pieces, most notably those
of his “West Bank” (of the Hudson River) portraits from 1823- modeled by Eugene J. Soligny. The
24, according to scholar and collector David R. Allaway. (See animals were featured on ice bowls and
page 115 in the August 2019 issue of M.A.D. for a review punch bowls to celebrate the purchase of
of Allaway’s book My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, Alaska from Russia in 1867.
volumes 1 and 2. The books are available to read for free
online at [http://issuu.com/n2xb].) Doyle credited Allaway’s
book in the lot description.

The top-selling lot of the sale was a
sterling silver ice bowl designed by
Edward C. Moore for Tiffany & Co.

For decades this portrait was unidentified, noted Allaway in This portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of The Metropolitan Museum of Art consigned this
a telephone interview. “It was known as Lady with a Rose,” Maria Van Leuvan Overbagh, also known as Lady portrait of William Eustis by Gilbert Stuart (1755-
with a Rose, sold to an online buyer for $8125. 1828), executed circa 1806. The 28¾" x 23⅞" oil
he said, “until some twenty years ago a pair of portraits The 30¾" x 24¾" oil on canvas had an estimate of on canvas sold for $28,125 (est. $12,000/18,000)
$8000/12,000. The work was executed circa 1823 to a phone bidder. Provenance includes William
appeared that had descended in the sitter’s family, and she was at the time Phillips was working in Ulster and Eustis; Miss Frances Appleton Langdon Haven;
identified.” Allaway explained that Ammi Phillips sometimes Schoharie Counties, west of the Hudson River, Eustis Langdon Hopkins, Esq., New York; and the
made more than one copy of a portrait, “all in his hand at the according to research conducted by David R. Metropolitan Museum of Art, which acquired it from
Allaway, a scholar and collector, whose two-volume Hopkins in 1945.
same time as the original,” to give to members of the family.
book My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips
“They were nearly identical—he had a photographic skill for
copying his work—but there would be subtle differences,” Doyle credited in the lot description. Provenance
Allaway noted. The portrait at Doyle is the second one includes Ferargil Galleries, New York City; Mrs.
Allaway knows of—the first one remains with the original Myra Carter Church, New York; Samuel Marks
family, he said. Gallery, New York; Howard C. Sherwood, New
York; Society for the Preservation of Long Island
A circa 1806 portrait of William Eustis by Gilbert Stuart Antiquities, Setaucket, New York (bequeathed from
Sherwood); and a private collection. Allaway’s book
(1755-1828), consigned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is available for free online (http://issuu.com/n2xb).

sold to a phone bidder for $28,125 (est. $12,000/18,000).

The overall sale totaled $1,202,006 (including buyers’

premiums). The presale estimate was $765,750/1,185,950.

The auction realized an 88% sell-through rate by lot.

The top-selling lot of the sale was a sterling silver ice
bowl designed by Edward C. Moore for Tiffany & Co., circa
1877, which sold for $125,000 (est. $25,000/35,000). The

bowl came from a Connecticut family who attended a Doyle

appraisal day carrying in a bag the 10¼" diameter circular
bowl decorated with Japonesque water lilies and dragonflies.
“They pulled it out of the bag,” declared specialist Todd

Sell. The bowl is not marked because a silver insert with the
family’s crest affixed to the bottom blocks the customary spot
for a mark, explained Sell. The bowl was featured on the back

cover of Doyle’s auction catalog.

Included in the sale was property from the collection of

Frank and Claire Tracy Glaser of Greenwich, Connecticut,

who began collecting Americana in the late 1960s. Their

house in the Riverside section of Greenwich was built in 1804.
A Doyle specialist pointed out that three rooms were filled
with Nantucket baskets, dating from the late 19th century to

the early 21st century, by Jose Formoso Reyes, Bill and Judy

Sayle, and Stanley Roop. Over 125 lots of weathervanes,
bowls, paintings, baskets, furniture, and portraits were offered.

Alas, the fever did not hit the salesroom attendee this time

around, but he did get the lots for which he had prebid.

Doyle’s next American paintings, furniture, and decorative

arts sale will take place in the spring. The auction house will

hold a single-owner sale of folk art during Americana Week;

date and time are to be announced. Further information is

available at (www.doyle.com).

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FAEUACTTUIROEN

This 8½" x 12" oil on board laid to panel by Thomas Cole This signed, dated, and inscribed oil on masonite by
(1801-1848), Scene in the Catskills, was featured on the front Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961),
cover of the auction catalog. Executed in the 1830s-40s, it sold Greenwich, NY, 1948, sold to a phone bidder for $59,375
to a phone bidder for $112,500 (est. $30,000/50,000). The work (est. $40,000/60,000).
has provenance with Berry-Hill Galleries, New York City, and
Child in a Blue Dress by Carl John a private collection.
David Nordell (Danish/American, 1885-
1957) elicited lots of attention during
the presale exhibition. Signed and
inscribed, the 24" x 18" oil on canvas
sold to a phone bidder for $3437 (est.
$800/1200). The painting had last sold
at Doyle on September 22, 1982, for
$2800 (est. $2000/3000).

Landscape with a Village, attributed to Thomas Chambers A collector of dog art who attended the sale was the
(1808-1866/69), 22" x 30", got the attention of two bidders successful bidder for this 19th-century folk art signed
in the room and two online. Estimated at $3000/5000, the portrait of “Prince” by M. H. Powell. The collector paid
oil on canvas sold for $6250 to dealer Jeffrey Tillou of $17,500 for the 12" x 18¼" oil on board, beating out a
Litchfield, Connecticut, who was bidding in the room. phone bidder. The portrait had an estimate of $300/500 and
was from the collection of Frank and Claire Tracy Glaser.

This Tiffany & Co. sterling silver and
enamel footed bowl, approximately 10"
diameter, estimated at $3000/5000, sold for
$8125. The rim and center are decorated
with green enamel rosettes on a blue enamel
border. Doyle dated it 1907-38.

Where the Robins Sing, 1890, by Thomas Hovenden (1840- This group of nine turned wood bowls, one marked “L E B”
1895) sold for $13,750 to a phone bidder. The signed oil on on the bottom, sold for $4062 (est. $700/1000). The largest
canvas, 28⅛" x 36⅛", had an estimate of $15,000/25,000. measures 7½" high x 21½" diameter.
The work has provenance with Rifkin-Young Fine Arts,
New York City, and it was exhibited at the Woodmere Art
Museum, Philadelphia, in 1995.

This lidded lightship basket purse This patinated copper and zinc full-body fish weathervane,
with a depiction of a seal by possibly a cod, on an iron stand, sold for $10,000 (est. $2000/4000).
Jose Formosa Reyes (1902-1980) The 13" x 33" weathervane was from the collection of Frank and
of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Claire Tracy Glaser.
1960s-70s, sold for $3125 (est.
$1000/1500). The 8" x 8½" purse A buyer paid $5312 (est. $1200/1800) for this copper bull
was from the collection of Frank weathervane on a stand, 18½" x 30", with green patina. It
and Claire Tracy Glaser. came from the collection of Frank and Claire Tracy Glaser.

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AFUECATUIORNE

Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Art+Design and African American Fine Art

by Don Johnson
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery

Treadway Gallery continued to show its influence in the market for African
American art during its auction in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 2019.
While the Art+Design session featured an array of decorative arts typical of
Treadway’s sales, a session of African American art brought the top bid of the day.

Leading all sales was a circa 1970 abstract work by Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-
1978) that realized $149,000 (includes buyer’s premium), well above its estimate
of $20,000/30,000. The 13¼" x 15¾" watercolor on paper was characteristic of the
paintings produced by Thomas, who in the 1970s was known for abstract works with
pats of irregular patterns in bright colors. The example offered by Treadway was
filled top to bottom and side to side with 59 parallel rows of bright colors: purple,
red, yellow, orange, forest green, lime green, royal blue, and light blue. Each row
represented a single color and had dozens of asymmetrical splotches.

“That’s a market that is still in its infancy. It seems to
be gaining in buyers. Interest seems to be increasing.”

Thomas, a part-time painter during her years as a teacher, started painting full time Abstract watercolor on paper by Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978), signed, circa
after her retirement in 1960 from teaching at Shaw Junior High School in Washington, 1970, 13¼" x 15¾", good condition, $149,000 (est. $20,000/30,000).
D.C. Still, she had substantial influence. Her obituary in the Washington Post noted,
“Because many in the art world feel that works by blacks and women have not in the Autumn Leaves globe lamp by Tiffany Studios,
past received the attention due them, and because many people are now working to New York, Favrile glass on a bronze artichoke
right that situation, the works of Alma Thomas—a black woman Washington color base, marked, 31" high x 10½" diameter, base
painter—are certain to be closely studied in the years to come.” with good original patina having minor losses,
shade having few if any cracked segments,
Two other abstract works also brought strong interest, garnering the second- and $87,500 (est. $65,000/75,000).
fourth-highest prices of the session. Dancer by Mavis Pusey (1928-2019) sold for
$56,250 (est. $15,000/20,000). Circa 1968, the 38" x 31½" oil on canvas featured
the hard-edge abstraction for which the Jamaican-born artist is known. The work
came from the estate of the artist. A 47" x 32" oil on canvas by Hale Woodruff (1900-
1980), circa 1958, brought $46,875 (est. $40,000/60,000). The work exuded a sense of
movement, a characteristic common in the artist’s later works.

More traditional paintings included a backyard view by William Edouard Scott (1884-
1964), oil on canvas, signed, 25" x 30", that sold for $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000).
The autumn scene featured a boy in a blue long-sleeve shirt and yellow hat. Behind
him were a quilt on a clothesline and a woman standing in the open doorway of a
clapboard house. An indoor scene by Palmer Hayden (1890-1973), circa 1940, oil on
canvas, 22" x 18", realized $42,250 (est. $35,000/45,000). It showed a rotund woman
in a floral-pattern dress and yellow apron, standing at a kitchen table rolling dough,
with a dog and laundry basket underneath and a broom in the background, beneath a
clock showing 11:55.

Don Treadway was pleased with the results of the African American art. “That’s a
market that is still in its infancy. It seems to be gaining in buyers. Interest seems to be
increasing,” he said. “That’s a market that I’m really pretty enthusiastic about.”

The Art+Design session was led by an Autumn Leaves globe lamp by Tiffany Studios
that sold for $87,500 (est. $65,000/75,000). The Favrile glass shade was mounted on
a bronze artichoke base.

Artwork in the session included Self-Reflection by Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-
1977), oil on masonite, dated 1953, 10" x 8", which made $18,750 (est. $8000/10,000).
The outdoor scene depicted a woman in a green dress sitting on a tall stool and looking
into a cheval mirror, which had the reflected image of a black cat on the same stool.
The stark landscape was under a sliver-thin crescent moon amid scattered stars and
two elliptical clouds with pointed ends. Indiana Dunes, a landscape by Frank Dudley
(1868-1957), oil on canvas, 26½" x 29½", made $11,700 (est. $4000/6000). The
painting’s rolling sandbanks showed scattered vegetation, with Lake Michigan in the
background.

The best of the ceramics was a pedestal by Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co.,
London, with a green glaze on the carved and pierced body, 23½" high x 15½"
diameter, that sold for $11,875 (est. $7000/9000), while glassware was topped by
an Aigrettes (egrets) vase by René Lalique (French, 1860-1945), the etched design
showing egrets in flight against interlacing reeds, 9¾" high x 8" diameter, that realized
$7150 (est. $5000/7500).

“The ceramics and glass were fine. They did well,” said Treadway. “It’s the same old
thing; if it’s nice, if it’s really good, it doesn’t matter if it’s two hundred dollars or two
thousand dollars.” However, marginal material continues to decline in interest. “Run-
of-the-mill stuff is getting worse,” he said.

“We still have one thing going on in this business that’s going to continue to cause
problems, and it’s going to get worse. A lot of people are up in years, moving, dying,
downsizing, putting more merchandise on the market, and we don’t have very many
young people picking up the slack. I don’t see that changing. It is absolutely an
excellent time to buy stuff.”

For more information, phone (513) 321-6742 or visit (www.treadwaygallery.com).

Indoor scene by Palmer Hayden (1890-1973),
circa 1940, oil on canvas, signed, 22" x 18", good
condition, some paint shrinkage along edge,
$42,250 (est. $35,000/45,000).

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Dancer by Mavis
Pusey (1928-2019),
circa 1968, oil on
canvas, signed, titled
and signed on the
reverse, 38" x 31½",
some cracks, $56,250
(est. $15,000/20,000).

Backyard scene by William Edouard Scott, oil on canvas, signed,
25" x 30", good condition, overall craquelure, two minor spots

retouched, $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000).

Palm lantern by Handel
Lamp Company, Meriden,
Connecticut, bronzed metal
and slag glass, marked, 20"
high x 14" diameter, original
patina with some minor flaws,
some parts possibly replaced,
$2875 (est. $2000/3000).

Indiana Dunes by Frank Dudley (1868-1957), oil on Self-Reflection by Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-
canvas, signed, 26½" x 29½" (sight size), very good 1977), oil on masonite, signed and dated 1953,
condition, $11,700 (est. $4000/6000). titled on the reverse, 10" x 8" (sight size), minor
inpainting, $18,750 (est. $8000/10,000).

Van Briggle vase, Colorado Springs,
Colorado, marked and dated “1902,”

4¾" high x 5¾" diameter, very good

condition, $2500 (est. $2000/3000).

Inlaid vanity desk by Gallé, Abstract work by Beauford Delaney (1901-
French, fruitwood, marked, 28½" 1979), oil and wash on paper, signed and dated
high x 23½" wide, restoration to “1965,” inscribed “Paris,” 22½" x 21", good
top and one leg support, $4225 condition, pinholes in three corners, $17,500
(est. $2000/3000). (est. $10,000/15,000).

Marblehead vase, Boston, carved,
green and black glaze, marked, 3½"
high x 4" diameter, excellent condition, Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 55
$3625 (est. $1700/2200).

AFUECATUIORNE

Sunlight and Shadows, Haiti by William Edouard Scott (1884-1964), oil Aigrettes (egrets) etched-glass vase by Pedestal by Archibald Knox
on canvas, signed, circa 1930, 26" x 36", good condition, relined, $9375 René Lalique (French, 1860-1945), (1864-1933) for Liberty & Co.,
(est. $6000/8000). marked, 9¾" high x 8" diameter, a London, green glaze, 23½" high
little dirty, $7150 (est. $5000/7500). x 15½" diameter, minor scuffs,
Carved diorite figure by Sargent Johnson chips, and roughness, $11,875
(1888-1967), circa 1955, 8¼" x 9" x 6", very Hocah vase by (est. $7000/9000).
good condition, $7150 (est. $5000/7000). Claude Conover
(1907-1994) of
Cleveland, Ohio,
glazed stoneware,
marked, 19½"
high x 8½"
diameter, excellent
condition, $5200
(est. $4000/6000).

Cowan Pottery vase designed by
Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008),
Rocky River, Ohio, 6½" high x
5½" diameter, excellent condition,
$2500 (est. $1000/1500).

Newcomb Pottery tile by Sadie Irvine (1887-1970), New
Orleans, marked on the front, 10" x 14" overall, original
frame retouched, $6250 (est. $5000/7000). The original
paper tag records the subject as “Oaks” and the price as
“$5.”

Turtleback desk lamp by Tiffany Desk lamps attributed to Fostoria Glass

Studios, New York City, Favrile Company, Fostoria, Ohio, iridescent glass,
unmarked, 16" high x 7" diameter, excellent
glass shade and jewels, bronze base, condition, $3375 (est. $1500/2500).
marked, 14" high x 8½" wide, excellent
condition, $9375 (est. $6000/8000).

Gallé ceramic vase, French, marked, 6¼" high x 12½" wide,
minor flakes, $4375 (est. $1500/2500).

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Sharecroppers by John Howard (1902-1999), oil on canvas, signed,
titled and dated “1949” on the reverse, 22" x 28", good condition,
$13,750 (est. $6000/8000).

Untitled scene of a horse race by Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929), circa 1991, acrylic on canvas, signed,
48" x 72", good condition, $25,000 (est. $25,000/45,000).

Temple by John Rozelle (b. 1944), acrylic and collage Study for Frederick Douglass Lives Again
on canvas, signed and titled, circa 1990, 44" x 30", (The Ghost of Frederick Douglass) by Charles
not intended to be framed, mild surface dirt, $12,500 Wilbur White (1918-1979), graphite on
(est. $6000/8000). paper, signed and dated 1949, 10" x 8", good
condition, $17,500 (est. $20,000/30,000).

Abstract oil on canvas by Hale Woodruff (1900-1980),
circa 1958, signed, 47" x 32", good condition, some
craquelure, $46,875 (est. $40,000/60,000).

Town scene by Gerrit
Van Sinclair (1890-1955),
depicting a railroad and
the Granville depot, oil
on board, signed and
dated “1906,” 37" x 42"
overall, minor paint loss,
needs cleaning, $6500
(est. $5000/7000).

Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 57

AFUECATUIORNE Lindbergs said that
a private collector in
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California New Mexico who is
very active with
Modern Native American Art Bonhams paid $47,575
(est. $40,000/60,000) for
by Alice Kaufman Screaming Indian by
Photos courtesy Bonhams Fritz Scholder (1937-
2005). This 68" x 68"
“We always had modern material sprinkled around our December oil on canvas was the
and June auctions,” said Ingmars Lindbergs, Bonhams’ Native auction’s top lot. The
American art department director, of his first auction to focus interest in this painting
on contemporary and 20th-century modern Native American art at Bonhams at the Whitehawk show
in Los Angeles. in Santa Fe in August
“compelled” Lindbergs
“Now there is more material in this category coming out of a lot of thirty- to create this
year-old collections,” he continued. “This sale didn’t take material away modern sale.
from our traditional auctions. And I’m very happy with the results. We will
absolutely do it again. We showed the material at the Whitehawk Indian show
in Santa Fe this August and had a lot of positive input.”

Lindbergs hopes to provide a venue for living,
newer artists making “cutting-edge stuff.”

Let’s do the numbers. The September 16, 2019, sale had 79 lots with a
presale estimate of $411,700/615,200; it was 81% sold by lot, and the total
with buyers’ premiums came to $457,900.

Lindbergs hopes to provide a venue for living, newer artists making “cutting-
edge stuff with a political bent who don’t have a presence yet in the auction
world.” Two younger Native artists “whose work really resonates with me”
are Cannupa Hanska Luger, whose subjects include indigenous migration, and
Nicholas Galanin. The headline for a review of Galanin’s September 2019
exhibit in the Minneapolis Star Tribune read, “St. Paul gallery show flips the
script on American Indian art; An Alaskan artist’s new exhibit critiques the
American dream.”

“I’d like to see if they would collaborate,” said Lindbergs.
Lindbergs’s next traditional auction was held on December 16 in Los
Angeles. A second modern auction will be held in September, and “if there is
enough material,” a third modern auction will be scheduled as well.
For more information, contact Ingmars Lindbergs at (415) 503-3393 or go
to (www.bonhams.com).

This bronze sculpture by Allan Houser This bronze by Allan Houser, War Pony, 23½" high This woodblock on paper by T.C. Cannon,
(1914-1994), Sacred Rain Arrow, (without the base), from the Brinkman collection, sold Grandmother Gestating Father and the Washita River
11¾" high (including the base), sold for $35,075 (est. $20,000/40,000) to the Allan Houser Runs Ribbon-Like, 15½" x 11½", sold for $6950 (est.
for $11,325 (est. $5000/8000). The Foundation. Lindbergs said it was “a very dynamic $2000/3000) to the same Texas interior designer who
sculpture was part of the L.D. “Brink” price” and called War Pony a star, mixing elements of bought a suite of woodcuts by Cannon.
Brinkman collection. The buyer for abstraction with representational.
this and several other Houser lots was This 12½" high
the Allan Houser Foundation, which Appaloosa by bronze by Allan
maintains a gallery in Santa Fe. Allan Houser, a Houser, titled 49,
10" high bronze, sold for $7575 (est.
58 Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 sold for $11,325 $8000/12,000) to
(est. $4000/6000) the Allan Houser
to a private Foundation.
collector in the
Southwest.

FAEUACTTUIROEN

I Brush My Hair, this carved marble
sculpture by Allan Houser, 17½" high, sold to
a private collector in Texas for $10,075 (est.
$10,000/15,000). Lindbergs said that Houser’s
stone pieces are “more difficult to sell.”

Five woodcut prints on paper by T.C. Cannon (1946-1978), each 25" x Zuni Water Maidens by Allan Houser,
20", sold together for $27,575 (est. $7000/10,000). Cannon signed two bronze, 20¾" high, sold for $10,075 (est.
of the woodcut prints before he died in an automobile accident; his $7000/10,000) to a new buyer who lives
father signed the remaining three. “I spoke with the consignor two or outside the U.S.
three years ago, but he was reluctant to sell at that time. I contacted
him when this sale came up,” said Ingmars Lindbergs. Cannon’s star
is in the ascendant, Lindbergs said. Cannon was recently the focus of
exhibits at the Heard Museum in Phoenix and the National Museum of
the American Indian in New York City. The buyer of the woodcuts was
a Texas interior designer.

This carved redware jar by Tammy Garcia
(b. 1969), 16" high x 9" diameter, is
“another early example in both scale and
technique,” according to Lindbergs. It sold
for $10,075 (est. $7000/10,000) to a dealer
in New Mexico and Arizona.

This large carved jar by Tammy Garcia (b. 1969), Fritz Scholder, Dark Indian 32, oil on linen, 18" x 18", sold for
17" high x 14" diameter, sold for $16,325 (est. $6950 (est. $5000/8000) to a dealer from Tucson, Arizona.
$10,000/15,000) to a private East Coast collector.
“She doesn’t work this large anymore,” said
Lindbergs of Garcia.

Hunter’s Prayer, this bronze This black pottery bear with turquoise
by Allan Houser, 18⅝" high inlay by Tony Da (1940-2008) sold
(excluding the base), sold for for $15,075 (est. $15,000/20,000) to a
private collector from California who
$12,575 (est. $10,000/15,000) to saw the bear in Santa Fe.

the Allan Houser Foundation.

“We have sold this in the past,”

said Lindbergs.



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AFUECATUIORNE

The consignor had bought
this pin/pendant, Old Bering
Sea Figure, made from
sterling silver and fossil
ivory, from the artist, Denise
Wallace. It measures 3¾"
long, and it sold for $11,325
(est. $10,000/15,000) to a
private client who saw the
pendant at the Bonhams

booth at the Whitehawk

Antique Indian and
Ethnographic Art Show in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, in
August. The catalog cover
lot, a Wallace necklace

that did not sell, and the

other Wallace pieces in the

auction were from the same

collection.

A last-minute addition to the sale, this 14k
gold cuff bracelet by Charles Loloma (1921-
1991), set with turquoise on the outside and

with turquoise, coral, lapis lazuli, and gold

spacers on the inside, sold for $32,575 (est.
$20,000/30,000) to a gallery in Santa Fe,
New Mexico.

Consigned by a longtime Bonhams client with an

“amazing” Loloma collection, this Charles Loloma

18k gold necklace, 8½" long, with turquoise,
coral, and charoite stones, sold for $27,575 (est.
$10,000/15,000) to the same Santa Fe gallery that
bought the Loloma cuff bracelet. The necklace is
illustrated in Martha Struever’s book on Loloma.

This wide decorated silver cuff with jet, This silver and turquoise ring made
by Eveli Sabatie (b. 1940), one of only
shell, turquoise, and coral by Preston two apprentices of Charles Loloma,
sold for $8825 to a private Nevada
Monongye (1927-1987) sold for $8825 collector. It was “modestly estimated”
(est. $4000/6000) to a private collector at $1500/2000. Lindbergs called this a
from New Mexico. statement piece and said that Sabatie,
who has a “very distinctive style,”
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from turquoise, ironwood, lapis lazuli, coral, and
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Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas

Last but Not Least: The Final Auction of the
David and Janice Frent Collection

by Susan Emerson Nutter Selling for $30,000 was this Abraham Lincoln 1860 campaign Inscribed “General Washington Pater Patriæ,”
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions this 25 mm copper shell inaugural button with
flag inscribed “Lincoln and Hamlin.” The 11" x 17" flag fea- a half-length military bust of Washington fac-
Six auctions and more than 5000 lots later, tures a five-pointed Great Star pattern with a total of 33 stars. ing one-quarter left sold for $12,500. According
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has to Heritage, “This is the only portrait button
earned the right to sigh a hearty “Whew!,” in the accepted canon of George Washington
having dispersed the extensive and highly valued inaugural buttons” and “may also be the ear-
David and Janice Frent collection of presidential liest artifact that refers to Washington as the
and political Americana. The auctions finished ‘Father of His Country.’”
on September 21 and 22, 2019.
Broadsides on rag paper are quite fragile, so finding one “Polk & Dallas” are featured on this 18" x 11¼" jugate
This is the only portrait in decent shape is a bonus. Finding one featuring an eagle lithograph poster printed on thick cardstock featuring
button in the accepted and George Washington above the text of the Constitution central portraits of the 1844 Democratic candidates
canon of George Washington is a treasure. This one published in 1833 sold for $5750. done in the style of a Currier Grand National Banner.
The 31" x 21" broadside includes statistics about states, Its list of 26 Pennsylvania “Electors” ends with an
inaugural buttons. governors, the national debt ($48 million at that time), advisory from the chairman of the Central Committee
electoral votes, and distances between cities. A small box that the list, as shown, is the “correct list of the names
“When we knew Heritage would be selling titled “Government of the United States” has the names of of the Democratic Electors in favor of James K. Polk
the Frent collection, we really didn’t know how Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren leading off. for president and George M. Dallas for vice president.”
well the market would absorb this volume of This poster sold for $5750.
material,” stated Tom Slater, Heritage’s director must include an inaugural button, as they had acquired
of Americana. “We wanted to do the material some of the best. This final Frent event included a George another example, considered the finest known, which
justice, but we also did not want to stretch the Washington example featuring a half-length military bust Heritage sold in February 2018 for a record $225,000.
collection’s selling out for an extended period of Washington facing one-quarter left with the inscription
of time,” Slater stated. “We determined the best “General Washington Pater Patriæ.” When asked to look at the overall impact the Frent
approach was actually to sell the material in a collection had on this collecting genre, Slater stated,
finite period of time and hope the market could How special is this button? This is the only portrait “It definitely invigorated the hobby as a whole, and as
handle it.” Heritage held six auctions over the button in the accepted canon of George Washington for Heritage Auctions, it brought a couple hundred new
course of two years to accomplish this goal. inaugural buttons, and it may also be the earliest artifact bidders to us. It brought new people, often young people, to
that refers to Washington as the “Father of His Country.” both Heritage Auctions and the collecting field concerning
“Amazingly, very few lots, and I mean a very There are probably no more than ten of these in existence. presidential and political Americana, and that is a great
few considering the number of lots offered, sold This example, whose surface was slightly convex resulting thing for everyone involved.”
under our expectations,” Slater added. “And in wear to the portrait, sold for $12,500.
for the few that did, four times as many far For more information call 1-877-437-4824, or go to
exceeded our expectations. The market not only An interesting note—the Frent collection contained (http://historical.ha.com).
absorbed the volume of material, it drew very
strong bidding and prices and created standards
that will be used as reference points for some
time, I would imagine.”

When Heritage began putting together these
auctions, it determined that only material having
a minimum bid of $100 or more would be
included. Those who collect in this genre do so
mainly for the historical attributes of the pieces,
and many pieces of presidential and political
Americana are valued under that $100 mark. It
boggles the mind that the Frents had acquired
and created a collection where more than 5000
pieces were valued at more than $100 each.

“I would not say that this last auction was a
‘clean-up’ event where only lesser pieces were
included, though other Frent auctions did have
some show-stopping sales,” Slater stated. “This
last auction was just another solid event, with the
total being just shy of the $650,000 mark. The
sale total for all of the Frent auctions combined
approached the $5 million mark,” he added.

As in the other sessions, the top lots of this
final Frent event were campaign flags. “These
are currently, and continue to be, the most
popular items of this genre,” Slater stated. An
Abraham Lincoln 11" x 17" glazed cotton flag
inscribed “Lincoln and Hamlin” in curved
letters, with the canton positioned in the correct
corner (others have not been), sold for $30,000
(with buyer’s premium). This flag/banner
featured a five-pointed Great Star pattern with
a total of 33 stars.

A Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen campaign
flag featuring a nose-thumbing raccoon,
introduced as the Whig Party symbol in the
1840s, sold for $25,000. The raccoon is perched
on a fence while the man in the moon smiles
overhead, and below is a verse: “The moon
was shining silver bright / The stars with glory
crowned the night / High on a rail ‘that same old
coon’ / Was singing to himself this tune. / Clare
de kitchen / Hurrah! Hurrah! / For Henry Clay!”

Any auction report on the Frents’ collection

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This single-portrait Winfield
Scott Hancock stickpin badge
with a Hand and Cock rebus
is just over 2" high and sold
for $5250.

Spelling errors can be a bonus. This James This 25½" x 25" cotton flag with a sepia-tone portrait
Monroe portrait mug with his name spelled of Henry Clay in the canton surrounded by 26 stars is
“Munroe” sold for $9375. A matching ver- inscribed on the stripes “Clay. And Frelinghuysen,”
sion for John Quincy is also known to exist, and it sold for $8125. Finished on two sides, it was
which Heritage feels suggests “this cup may printed in red, black, brown, and blue.
date from the transitional period in 1825
when Adams had been elected to succeed
Monroe.” The mug measures 2⅝" high x
2⅞" diameter.

One of the most graphic of the

19th-century political posters or

prints, this 19" x 27" lithograph on

paper Zachary Taylor example printed

in brown and black sold for $4750.

Attributes of this poster include an
American eagle flying overhead grasp-
ing lightning bolts with a sunburst and

constellation of stars above the clouds.

The letters of the name Taylor are
populated with soldiers, fortifications,
and battle scenes, along with statis-

tics on casualties on both sides for six
different battles the victorious general
participated in.

Featuring the nose-thumbing raccoon introduced as the Whig
Party symbol in the 1840s, this Henry Clay “The Same Old
Coon” campaign flag, 23" x 27", sold for $25,000.

This 11" x 17" glazed cotton flag in support of the 1860 Consti- Published by Krebs of Cincinnati and titled “Centennial Elec-
tutional Union Party nominees sold for $5125. It has 33 stars in tion / 1876 / The Republican Nominees,” this 18½" x 23¼"
the canton with strong red colors in the field. chromolithograph featuring facing portraits of Rutherford B.
Hayes and William A. Wheeler within starry ovals and draped
flags sold for $5000.

This 12½" x 18¼" hand-colored lithograph cartoon published by A desirable large size at 7¼" x 3"
H. R. Robinson in 1836, “Political Race Course - Union Track - and printed on pale green silk, this
Fall Races 1836,” sold for $8750. Heritage’s catalog states that the Lewis Cass 1848 campaign ribbon
cartoon “shows the four candidates of 1836 as race horses, with sold for $5500. There is a great quo-
the heads of William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren, Daniel tation from Cass below his portrait:
Webster and Hugh White. A frontiersman rides the Harrison “If we are not struck with judicial
horse who is in the lead and appears heading for victory. Jackson blindness, we shall cling to this
rides the Van Buren steed. The jockeys make pithy comments on Constitution as the mariner clings
the progress of the race, the qualities (or lack thereof) of their to the last plank, when night and the
mounts and their prospects for winning the race.” tempest close around him.”

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Made by famed cast-iron still bank man- FAEUACTTUIROEN
ufacturer J. & E. Stevens Company, this
Measuring 22" x 25", this cotton bandanna printed in red and
Greenback frog bank, 6½" high, depicts brown, with a central portrait of George Washington surrounded by
the notorious Union general and politi- shields, crossed arrows, laurel branches, and ribands inscribed “In
cian Benjamin Franklin Butler. Though God We Trust / Washington Patriae Pater,” sold for $4500.
originally a Democrat, Butler supported
Lincoln and the Union during the war and
later was elected governor of Massachusetts
as a member of the National Greenback
Labor Party. He also ran for president in
1884 under that ticket. Here he is depicted
as a frog with a green back, clutch-
ing some “boodle” in one hand. His
arms are inscribed with a slogan that
appears to read “Bonds and Toddy for
the Masses.” Patented November 13,
1878, the still bank sold for $7812.50.

This folk art 1892 Republi-
can campaign jugate banner
of Benjamin Harrison and
Whitelaw Reid measures 57"
x 68" and has an attached
8½" x 44" panel at the bot-
tom. With text reading “For
President and Vice President /
Ecce Homo [Behold the Man]
/ Harrison & Reid,” the ban-
ner is painted on sailcloth and
signed by the artist, “R.M.C.”
It sold for $6250.

Having a great cartoon Featuring large, natural color overlapping portraits of the
design, this 1¼" diameter 1904 Republicans Roosevelt and Fairbanks, this 40" x 23½"
Roosevelt & Johnson “Bull Moose” jugate poster sold for $4750. It reads “For President / Theo-
1912 jugate pin sold for $7500. It dore Roosevelt / For Vice President / Charles W. Fairbanks /
shows New Yorker Teddy Roosevelt 1904.” The poster was published by Louis Roesch Company,
and Californian Hiram Johnson shak- San Francisco, and includes Lady Liberty, billowing flags,
ing hands across a map of the U.S. laurel sprigs, a shield, and the Washington Monument.

This 28" x 21" James B. Weaver and James G. Field People’s
Party jugate poster sold for $4750. Mounted to linen, the
poster features the 1892 Populist or People’s Party candidates
and is inscribed “Equal Rights To All; Special Privileges To
None. / People’s Party Candidates for President and Vice
President 1892.”

Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 63

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Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) sand

Fine and Decorative Art bottle, decorated on one side with

by Don Johnson the name “Miss Kate Moore” above
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions an urn of flowers, the other side
with a spread-wing eagle carrying a
Chalk up another one. A sand bottle made by Andrew Clemens 36-star American flag, overall design
(1857-1894) sold for $100,000 (including buyer’s premium) of multicolor geometrics, 8¾" high,
against an estimate of $30,000/50,000 during the fine and
decorative art sale held by Cowan’s Auctions on September 28, 2019, in partial worn label to top of stopper,
Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the fourth time in a year the auction house has
garnered a six-figure price for the specialty items made by the deaf-mute $100,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).
man from McGregor, Iowa.

The most recent sand bottle was personalized on one side with the
name “Miss Kate Moore” above an urn of flowers, while the opposite
side had Clemens’s trademark design of an eagle in flight, an American
flag clutched in its talons. The bottle was 8¾" high and had a partial
label with considerable wear on the stopper.

The Clemens sand bottle offered
in the September auction wasn’t
the only item to bring strong interest.

Clemens was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and spent most of his life The Watering Hole by George Inness (1825-1894), oil on
in nearby McGregor. He lost his hearing and voice to encephalitis at canvas, signed, 16" x 22" (sight size), relined, stabilized
the age of five, and as a teenager he attended the Iowa Institute for craquelure, abrasions, $45,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).
the Deaf and Dumb in Council Bluffs. After leaving there, he began
experimenting with designs created from multicolored sands from the View from Studio, Santa Barbara, Cal. by Birger Sandzen
Pictured Rocks region of Iowa. The resulting sand bottles are now (1871-1954), oil on masonite, signed, the reverse signed,
prized as masterpieces of folk art. titled, and dated 1950, 19½" x 23½" (sight size), $30,000
(est. $20,000/40,000).
Cowan’s holds the record price for a Clemens sand bottle at $132,000.
Sold in October 2018, that example featured a floral spray under the Russian cloisonné enamel
name “Mrs. Eliza B. Lewis.” At the same auction, Cowan’s sold a
second Clemens sand bottle for $108,000. That work had a nautical and silver decanter, late 19th
theme featuring several sailing ships on open water, with a steamer or early 20th century, floral
in the background. Both bottles had the secondary design of an eagle decoration, obscured marks,
flying with an American flag.
10¾" high, some enamel loss,
The other six-figure sand bottle sold in February 2019 for $102,000.
That example had a floral wreath around the date 1887 on one side, $5120 (est. $600/800).
while the reverse depicted an eagle and flag. It wasn’t the first time
Cowan’s had handled that piece, which previously sold for $9775 Blaise Bontems (French, 1814-1893)
in a June 2006 auction. Wes Cowan, vice chairman of the company, automaton music box with two singing
first came across a Clemens sand bottle as an appraiser on Antiques birds in a tree and an enameled
Roadshow in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 2002. See (www.youtube.com/ clock with a Japy Freres movement,
watch?v=92_F1BoP_AA). “The folk art world at large had never heard all under a glass dome on a wooden
of the guy,” Cowan said in an interview last year. base, 19th century, two original song
lists attached to the underside of the
Cowan’s online archives list 29 sales of intact Clemens sand bottles base, 24½" high x 19" wide, with
between 2004 and 2019. Of those, 14 sold between $2300 and $9775, key, automaton mostly functional
nine brought between $12,075 and $22,800, two realized $30,000 and (waterfall components present but
$32,400, and four made $100,000 or more. not working), music box and clock
components all present but not
The spike in sales for Clemens sand bottles during 2019 at Cowan’s functional, lost feathers and wear to
is the result of bidding by two major collectors. Remove either person birds, minor losses and wear to base,
from the equation and prices are almost certain to drop considerably. tree, and ground, $3456
(est. $1500/3000).
“At that price range, the market is just razor thin,” said Cowan.
“The thing that is amazing to me is that they are still being found,”
he added. “It speaks to the value that original owners placed on having
these bottles. They recognized them as unique. Many were put inside
china closets or put up on a shelf where children couldn’t reach them,
and they were curated as if they were a museum piece. I’ve probably
handled close to fifty in the last twelve years. It speaks to Clemens’s
productivity.”
The Clemens sand bottle offered in the September auction wasn’t the
only item to bring strong interest. Artwork saw some serious bidding,
led by The Watering Hole by George Inness (1825-1894), a 16" x 22"
signed oil on canvas that sold for $45,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).
Among the art glass was a 20th-century Poissons vase in red cased
glass by René Lalique (French, 1860-1945), 9¼" high, that topped at
$16,640 (est. $10,000/15,000).
Furniture saw an Italian Baroque walnut and fruitwood marquetry
cabinet from the 17th century, 80" high x 68" wide, sell for $11,520
(est. $3000/5000), while the best of the American furniture was a
Federal sideboard attributed to Thomas Seymour, Boston, circa 1815,
in mahogany with carving attributed to Thomas Wightman, 43¾" high x
73" wide, that realized $8960 (est. $10,000/15,000).
Oddities during the day included a Victorian cast-iron child’s coffin
from the late 19th century, likely American, having a sarcophagus form
with molded decorations and a glass window at the head, 55" long, that
sold for $11,250 (est. $1000/2000).
For more information, phone Cowan’s at (513) 871-1670 or visit
(www.cowans.com).

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Pair of cockatoos by Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971), Poissons vase by René Lalique (French,
oil on board, signed, 20" x 24", multiple spots of 1860-1945), red cased glass, marked, 9¼"
minor inpainting, some cracking of the paint, $17,500 high, air bubbles (some open) throughout,
(est. $20,000/30,000). The painting had previously sold minor surface scratches, $16,640 (est.
at Cowan’s for $26,400 in October 2016. $10,000/15,000).

Still life with corn by Alfred Montgomery (1857-
1922), oil on canvas, initialed, 35¾" x 23¾"
(sight size), wear to frame including losses in
corners, $3375 (est. $1500/2500).

Winter scene with horses by John Frederick Herring Sr. Meissen porcelain nodder, Continental,
(English, 1795-1865), oil on canvas, signed, 25¾" x 36¼" 19th century, nodding head with moving
(sight size), relined, $18,750 (est. $30,000/50,000). hands and tongue, marked, wooden base,
10¾" high, $3250 (est. $1500/2500).

Street scene, likely Brittany, by Dixie Selden (1868-1935),
oil on artist board, signed, illegibly titled, dated 1924,
11½" x 15½", with craquelure, $5625 (est. $3000/5000).

Pennsylvania crazy

quilt, circa 1880,

silk and velvet,

63 blocks with
floral needlework,
flowering vine
border, 73½" x 57½",

$3584 (est. $300/500).

Porcelain service by Royal Crown Derby in the Gold Aves pattern,

English, 20th century, cobalt ground with gold design of exotic birds,

119 pieces, each with factory mark and date stamp, most showing little

to no use, $6875 (est. $2000/4000). The set consists of 12 dinner plates

(one cracked), 12 salad plates, 12 bread and butter plates, 12 footed
cream bowl and saucer sets, 12 flat cup and saucer sets, ten demitasse
cup and saucer sets, a teapot, a coffeepot, a creamer, a sugar bowl, a
round soup tureen (handles cracked), three serving trays (one with

scratches), two lidded vegetables, two oval serving bowls, a round footed

center bowl, and a gravy boat with a detached undertray.

Victorian child’s coffin in cast iron, likely American, late 19th century, sarcophagus
form with molded decorations, glass window at the head, 9½" high x 55" long x 16"
wide (when lying flat), peeling paint, missing multiple screws, $11,250 (est. $1000/2000). Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 65

AFUECATUIORNE Hanover Bend by William McKendree Snyder (1848-1930),

Mourning needlework panel on silk, depicting two mourners oil on canvas, signed, 16¾" x 27½" (sight size), $8320 (est.
in a churchyard with two graves set with paper memorials for $6000/8000).
one-year-old Josiah Moulton Jr. and seven-month-old Henry
Augustus Moulton, an angel blowing a trumpet in the sky, the
églomisé border lettered “Harriet Moulton Aged. Nine Years,”
early 19th century, 23" x 31" plus gilt frame, water stains, losses
to frame, $3250 (est. $600/800).

Marionette theater, Czechoslovakian, 19th century, featuring Connecticut Queen Anne Cellaret on frame, 19th century,
14 carved and polychrome puppets, along with an assortment
diminutive tall-case clock, cherry, painted flowers on front,
of printed laminate set pieces, the theater 31" high x 29" wide, divided interior, 25" high x 12½" wide
puppets each 10" high, $2625 (est. $400/600). 1720-40, pine and old red paint, x 12" deep, minor age split, chip above

unsigned dial in original paint a front leg, $5625 (est. $1000/1500).
with bird and floral decoration,
unsigned eight-day brass
movement, 71¼" high x 16"
wide, completely overhauled in
2004, $3456 (est. $800/1200).

Late Federal dresser

attributed to Thomas

Seymour of Boston, 19th

century, mahogany, two
pieces, 77½" high x 40½"
wide, good condition,
$8750 (est. $4000/6000).

Philadelphia Chippendale side chairs attributed to Daniel Trotter (1747-1800),
circa 1780, the pierced splats with plume carvings, 38" high x 22" wide, good
condition, refinished, $8750 the pair (est. $4000/6000).

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Arts and Crafts tile nursery stove attributed
to Minton and Wedgwood, English, 1890-1900,
40 printed and hand-colored tiles (each 6"
square), 29" high x 38½" wide, converted to
gas, detached cast-iron feet, mild crazing to
tiles, $4688 (est. $5000/7000). The 12 tiles on
the front feature illustrations of the months
of the year after 1870s designs by Helen J.A.
Miles for Wedgwood. The 28 tiles on the sides
and top depict scenes from fairy tales, nursery
rhymes, and Aesop’s fables after illustrations
by Walter Crane (English, 1845-1915), mostly
from his two famous children’s books, The
Baby’s Opera, originally published in 1877,
and The Baby’s Own Aesop, published in 1887.

Regina auto changer 15½" disc music
box, circa 1900, mahogany finish,
crest with shell and scroll carving,
bowed door flanked by barley-twist
columns, 67¼" high x 25" wide, with
hand crank and 25 discs, $8125 (est.
$10,000/15,000).

Italian Baroque walnut and
fruitwood marquetry cabinet, 17th
century, two pieces, 80" high x 68"
wide, areas of loss, insect damage,
$11,520 (est. $3000/5000).

Federal sideboard attributed to Thomas Seymour, Boston, circa 1815, mahogany,
with carving attributed to Thomas Wightman, 43¾" high x 73" wide, good condition,
$8960 (est. $10,000/15,000).

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Swann Galleries, New York City

African American Fine Art

by Julie Schlenger Adell
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries

The two top-selling lots in Swann Galleries’ fall African American fine art auction Seated Woman by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012)
on October 8, 2019, were bought by institutions. Elizabeth Catlett’s Seated was the top-selling lot of the sale and achieved
Woman, a carved mahogany sculpture, initialed “EC,” from 1962, sold to the an auction record for the artist. The 1962 carved
Saint Louis Art Museum for $389,000 (with buyer’s premium), while Henry Ossawa mahogany sculpture, initialed “EC,” sold to
the Saint Louis Art Museum for $389,000 (est.
Tanner’s At the Gates (Flight into Egypt), an oil on panel from 1926-27, was bought $100,000/150,000). The work was acquired directly
from Catlett by George William Crockett Jr.
by an unnamed institution that paid $341,000 for the signed work. Clapping filled the and Ethelene Jones Crockett, M.D., of Detroit,
Michigan, and descended to the consignor.
salesroom when both lots sold. The artist’s early works in wood from the
late 1950s and early 1960s are scarce,
The October 8 sale, held coincidentally on the “Seated Woman is a and this one is the earliest example to
birthday of Nigel Freeman, founder and director of marvelous example come to auction, according to Swann.
Swann’s African American fine art department (there
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s At
was more clapping in the salesroom when this was of the strong the Gates (Flight into Egypt),
female form.” painted 1926-27, sold to an
announced), totaled $3,729,912 (the hammer price institution for $341,000 (est.
total was $3,000,650) with an 89% sell-through $100,000/150,000), and the
price elicited clapping from the
rate. The presale estimate for the 189-lot sale was salesroom. It also achieved the
second-highest price at auction
$2,139,800/3,155,200. for the artist, said Swann. The
signed 24" x 19" oil on panel
Auction records were made for Catlett, Kenneth Victor Young, Allan Rohan Crite, passed down through the
descendants of James Joseph
Sargent Johnson, and William H. Johnson. The department started holding sales in Haverty (1858-1939), its original
purchaser. Haverty organized
2007 and holds an auction in October and one in April. painting exhibitions with
Grand Central Galleries at the
Nigel Freeman said he was “pleased with the results” and that the auction records Biltmore Museum in Atlanta,
which led to the founding of the
“show the growing breadth of the market.” High Museum, according to an
entry in Swann’s catalog. The
Freeman added, “Elizabeth Catlett was especially deserving of a new record, and work is one of Tanner’s later
interpretations of his series of
Seated Woman was the perfect work to do it, embodying all the wonderful qualities paintings depicting the Holy
Family’s flight into Egypt. There are at least 15 known examples, including the
found in her wood sculpture.” 1923 Flight into Egypt in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Saint Louis Art Museum said in a press release that a major work by Catlett has

been a long-held priority. Melissa Wolfe, the museum’s curator of American art, said,

“Seated Woman is a marvelous example of the strong female form, mix of naturalism

and abstraction, lustrous finish, and incorporation of wood grain into the subject for

which Catlett is most celebrated.” The sculpture will be on view in early 2020.

Another trend in the sale was “the rising popularity and value of the paintings of

Hughie Lee-Smith and Walter Williams—two significant mid-century painters Swann

has specialized in,” Freeman pointed out.

As is customary for this auction, the fifth-floor room filled up with collectors,

supporters, and a few dealers long before the 2 p.m. start time. A new addition to

the sale was the presence of Artsy, an online platform. In addition to Swann’s app,

which was launched a year ago, and Invaluable, bidders can now bid online with Artsy.

The buyer’s premium is the standard baseline, explained Alexandra Nelson, Swann’s

director of communications, and the auction house pays Artsy a “success fee when

their bidders win.”

Nelson further noted, “The more competition there is, the better the auction. I’m

thinking of it as another marketing platform with a fairly contemporary audience,

which may broaden the reach of our sales.”

For more information, see (www.swanngalleries.com).

Girl in a Garden by Romare Bearden
(1911-1988), a collage of various
papers and printed fabrics, with ink
and surface abrasion, 1972, sold to a
phone bidder for $197,000. The 22"
x 14" signed work was estimated at
$100,000/150,000. It has a gallery
label on the back of the frame from
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York City,
and it had gone into a private New
York collection in 1972.

An auction record was made for
Kenneth Victor Young (1933-
2017) when this untitled work
(Abstract Composition) sold for
$233,000 to a phone bidder.
The acrylic on cotton canvas,
1972, measures 79" x 118" and
is Young’s largest painting to
come to auction. The signed and
dated abstract had an estimate
of $80,000/120,000.

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By William H. Johnson (1901-1970), Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) painted Sunflower Girl by Walter Williams (1920- Head of a Negro Boy by
Jitterbugs II, a 15" x 11½" color screenprint Play at Dark (Westminster Street, Madison 1988) was on the front cover of Swann’s Sargent Johnson (1888-
and pochoir on wove paper, 1941-42, sold Park) in 1935. The 24" x 18" signed, dated, catalog. It sold well over its high estimate 1967), painted terra
for $125,000 (est. $35,000/50,000) to a and inscribed oil on canvasboard sold for to a phone bidder. The signed 30" x 28" oil cotta mounted on a wood
bidder in the salesroom. The sale price $185,000 (est. $75,000/100,000) to a phone painting, executed 1951-52, went for $81,250 base, circa 1934, sold for
achieved an auction record for the artist. bidder. The sale price achieved an auction on a $30,000/40,000 estimate. It was the $125,000 to a bidder in
This is the second time the scarce print record for Crite, many of whose paintings second-highest price paid at auction for a the room. The sale made
had come to auction, said Swann, and depict African American life in Boston’s work by Williams. an auction record for the
the auction house has located ten others Roxbury and South End districts. artist. The 9¾" x 6" x 4½"
in public collections. There is a printed sculpture was estimated at
advertisement of a football game on the $80,000/120,000. The work
reverse of this print; the proof in the descended in the family of
collection of the Museum of Modern Art Herbert Lionel Rothschild
has the same, according to Swann. (1881-1935), a lawyer,
patron of the arts, and a
pioneer of the silent movie
industry in San Francisco,
who acquired the work
directly from Johnson.

The auction began, as these sales have for the last several years,
with a landscape by Edward Bannister (1828-1901), who painted
en plein air. Path to the Sea, painted 1885-89, sold for $17,500 to
a bidder on the phone with director Nigel Freeman. The signed
11" x 18" oil on linen canvas, a view of a beach in Rhode Island,
had an estimate of $10,000/15,000.

Works by Hughie Lee-Smith (1915-1999) performed well in the
sale. Seen here is Landscape with Figure, oil on masonite board,
painted in 1952. The artist’s “Detroit period” was “critical in
the formation of Lee-Smith’s oeuvre—a body of work in which
he found his own voice and gained national recognition,” the
entry in Swann’s catalog noted. A phone bidder paid $75,000
(est. $50,000/75,000) for the signed and dated painting. The
underbidder was Jonathan Boos of Jonathan Boos Fine Art, New
York City, who was bidding in the salesroom.

Ed Clark (1926-2019), an abstract painter known for using a This soldered wire figurative
push broom across a canvas, died a few days after the Swann sculpture by Richard Hunt
auction. This circa 2000 untitled acrylic on cotton, 20" x 24", sold (b. 1935) sold to a phone
for $36,400 (est. $25,000/35,000). It is signed in ink on the reverse. bidder for $25,000 (est.
$3000/5000). Another phone
Magnolia #2 by Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), a watercolor bidder, along with a bidder
from 1975, sold for $37,500. The 14¾" x 22" signed work, with in the room and one who left
the artist’s home address ink stamp and the title on the frame a bid with the auctioneer,
back board, was estimated at $30,000/40,000. vied for Unicycle, 9" high,
on a wood base, executed
circa 1956. It was
from a California
private collection.

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AFUECATUIORNE

Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio

Porcelli Collection of American,
Folk, and Outsider Art

by Susan Emerson Nutter
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts

Joyce and Dennis Porcelli were seeking out The bottle whimsies by Carl Worner offered at
and collecting Outsider art before Outsider this auction were very well received. This 15"
art was cool. Now that this interesting genre high “Henry Lamm Saloon” bottle whimsy,
has become mainstream, it was the perfect time 1901, signed “Made by Chas. Warner the
for the couple to offer up not only their collection Original Wittler New York San Francisco,
of these unique pieces but their Americana and Honolulu [illegible] 1901” in pencil, sold for
folk art collections as well. $5015 (est. $1500/2500). It and the other bottle
whimsies pictured in this article were illustrated
To these longtime Cleveland-area residents in Susan D. Jones’s book Genius in a Bottle:
it made sense that Rachel Davis Fine Arts, The Art and Magic of Bottle Whimseys (2003).
Cleveland, Ohio, was given the nod to host “This bottle had extensive documentation in
this auction, held on September 21, 2019. The S. Jones’s book,” Davis stated, adding, “And it
Porcellis and Davis go way back to the days sold to a collector on the East Coast.”
when Joyce bid and bought frequently at DeFina
Auctions in Austinburg, Ohio. Davis worked for “Joyce was one of the first people to see the
DeFina as a side hustle before having her own Zoratti collection and wrote the bio for the
auction gallery, helping owner Michael DeFina DeFina Auctions’ catalog when Michael
with the artwork that crossed his auction block. DeFina sold this collection in the early
nineties,” Davis stated. “I was glad to see the
DeFina and the Porcellis were also friends, and Zorattis do as well as they did.” This painted
both Michael and Joyce were early advocates of wood sculpture of the Statue of Liberty, 39½"
Ohio folk artist Silvio P. Zoratti (1896-1992). high, by Silvio P. Zoratti (1896-1992) sold for
Zoratti was born in the northeastern Italian $3304 to a collector in Reno, Nevada.
province of Udine. At a young age, Zoratti
traveled to Austria, where he lived with an uncle By Willem J. Blaeu (Dutch, 1571-
and later earned an apprenticeship certificate as a 1638), this circa 1633 “Americae Nova
skilled stonemason. He immigrated to the United Tabula” engraved map with hand
States in 1919 and worked for the Nickel Plate coloring sold for $2124. “This came
Railroad repairing and building culverts and out of an Akron, Ohio, estate sale and
bridges until his retirement in 1961. He married is going to a collector in Lithuania,”
his wife, Beatrice, in 1923, and the couple opted stated Rachel Davis.
to live in Conneaut, Ohio, on the shores of Lake
Erie in Ashtabula County, as his work often had
him traveling there.

Joyce and Dennis Porcelli
were seeking out and
collecting Outsider art

before Outsider art was cool.

It wasn’t until his retirement that Zoratti began “This was a beautiful
creating art via carving wood, sculpting concrete,
and utilizing found materials. Zoratti loved black lacquer table,”
American history, and it showed in his art. One
of his greatest pieces, a carved and painted wood commented Davis about this 19th-
sculpture of the Statue of Liberty, was acquired century English example featuring
by Joyce at a DeFina auction of Zoratti’s works an oil painting of two Scottish
in April 1991. Fast forward 28 years to this deerhounds and a deer. Set on a
Rachel Davis event, and this monumental Zoratti tripod base, the 31" high table sold
carving, 39½" high and estimated at $800/1200, for $2478 to a collector in Texas.
sold for $3304 (with buyer’s premium).
This 2000 bronze sculpture by M. Terry,
“Joyce really was excited to get the Statue Deerhound in Chair, is signed “M T 2000” and
of Liberty at that DeFina sale,” Dennis Porcelli set on a wood base. The 6¼" x 8½" x 6½" piece
stated. “We learned after the sale a collector went to a deerhound breeder from Texas for
drove in from Kentucky specifically for that piece $1180 (est. $200/400).
and was working with a bidding ring to assure
its purchase. For some reason, the group thought
they had secured the statue for the Kentucky
buyer but missed Joyce’s last bid, and we came
home with it.”

In addition to collecting the work of Zoratti
and other folk artists, the Porcellis collected Odd
Fellows pieces and everything from tramp art
and Ohio sewer tile art to trade signs and bottle
whimsies. The Porcellis have spent years in the
antiques industry as dealers and collectors. When
they first began offering folk art at shows, their
booth space was not the norm when compared
to the other displays, and shoppers couldn’t help
but be drawn into their dealer space. Likewise,
collectors couldn’t help but be drawn to this
auction.

The top lot from the Porcelli collection was a
1901 Carl Worner bottle whimsy of the “Henry
Lamm Saloon,” signed “Made by Chas. Warner

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the Original Wittler / New York San Francisco, Selling to a collector in New York City for $4130, FAEUACTTUIROEN
Honolulu [illegible] 1901” in pencil. At 15" high a set of Tiffany & Co. sterling silver flatware in
and illustrated in the Susan D. Jones 2003 tome the Olympian pattern (partially shown) weighs Bidders on this 1993 bronze sculpture by Anne Frey
Genius in a Bottle: The Art and Magic of Bottle 1940 grams. “This came out of a Northfield, Ohio, (b. 1928), Two Scottish Deerhounds, were deerhound
Whimseys (pp. 204-05), this example sold for collection,” according to Davis. “If you look up the enthusiasts, and the winning bidder is a breeder of
$5015 (est. $1500/2500). pattern online, it explains all the different mythology deerhounds from Ohio. Signed “Frey,” dated and
behind each piece.” numbered 1/16 at the base, and set on a wood base,
“We first began collecting simple ships with this 4¾" x 12" x 6" bronze sold for $2124
harbor scenes,” Michael Porcelli explained. “But A deerhound breeder from Virginia took (est. $400/600).
when we became aware of the Worner bottles, home this bronze sculpture by Anne Frey
that all changed.” He added, “I remember when (b. 1928), Gotcha, dated 1995 and signed This 20th-century American school bronze sculpture,
we acquired our first Worner. We were set up at “Frey 95/3/15.” It was included in the Society Seated Scottish Deerhound, 10¾" high, set on marble
the Philadelphia Antiques Show and heard there of Animal Artists 36th annual members base, sold for $2832 and came with an interesting story.
was one in a dealer space at another show. I left exhibition, Art and the Animal, 1996, at the According to Rachel Davis, “I was told this is a bronze
our booth and hunted it down, hoping to buy it Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas, and that was given out as a prize and is apparently very
before someone else could.” was illustrated in the exhibition catalog. sought after. A woman who won a similar bronze but
The 10" x 11" x 5½" bronze sold for broke it wanted to replace her damaged one, which
Little is known about Worner, who immigrated $1298 (est. $400/600). was her reason for bidding. Unfortunately she was not
to the United States from Germany in the late successful, and instead the bronze sold to a collector
1800s. It is known that he traveled extensively Selling to a Ravenna, Ohio, collector for $885 (est. in Virginia.”
through New England and the Midwest, and $500/800), this five-way tree trunk Ohio sewer tile planter
though he did not always sign his work, when he stands 24" high. This circa 1918 painted figural wood trade sign of a
did so his first name might appear as Carl, Karl, Victorian woman’s brown and cream buttoned boot,
Chas., or just K, with his last name appearing as featuring a pointed toe with a cap and a low Louis
Worner or Warner. heel, is initialed “A. J. C.” It sold to a collector from
Connecticut for $4130 (est. $300/600). The 29" x 35" x
Worner was a prolific builder, and his bottle 7½" piece has wear from exposure.
whimsies fall into four main categories—
crucifixion scenes, clock scenes, bar/saloon Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 71
scenes, and non-saloon dioramas, such as
bakeries, meat markets, funeral homes, etc.

More than 25 lots of whimsy bottles sold at the
sale, with those documented in the Jones book
getting special attention. “The whimsy bottles
had all five phones lit up, with strong in-house
and online bidding taking place as well,” Rachel
Davis said. “Collectors from all over the country
were actively bidding.”

Two hand-crafted folk art camp stools by
Hosea Hayden (1820-1897) sold for the same
amount. With overall finely incised decorations
and inscriptions and signed “Hosea Hayden
Invention maker and engraver, Liberty Indiana,”
a 33" high “Buggy Handle” stool sold for $4720
(est. $4000/7000). Also selling for $4720 was a
“Hunter’s Tripod” folk art camp stool with a cane
seat, finely inscribed decorations and inscriptions,
and some hand coloring, signed at the top of the
crossbar “Hayden’s Improved Tripod.” Both
were illustrated in “Hosea Hayden: Homilies to
Sit Upon” by Angie Mills in the fall 1994 Folk
Art magazine (vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 44-47).

“Dennis Porcelli could not remember exactly
where Joyce and he found these stools, but he
believes it was somewhere in the Midwest,”
Rachel Davis explained. “The Porcellis purchased
the stools about ten years ago, and both were
bought by a collector in London.”

A pair of tramp art frames, painted silver and
with “WP” and “GS” initials, sold together for
$2360 (est. $600/900). The set is illustrated in
Clifford A. Wallach and Michael Cornish’s Tramp
Art: One Notch at a Time (1998), p. 29.

Rounding out this auction were several other
consignments, including pieces from the estate
of Jeanne L. Frye (1930-2019), who grew up
in Shaker Heights and then Munson Township,
Ohio. Frye was passionate about and raised
Scottish deerhounds under the prefix (kennel
name) Thistleglen.

Naturally, many of the items sold from
her collection had a dog theme, including a
20th-century American school bronze sculpture,
Seated Scottish Deerhound, set on a marble base
and 10¾" high overall. It sold for $2832 (est.
$100/200). A 19th-century English tilt-top wood
table, with the top featuring an oil painting of
two Scottish deerhounds and deer, sold for $2478
(est. $800/1200).

Other interesting items included an engraved
map with hand coloring, “Americae Nova
Tabula,” by Willem J. Blaeu (Dutch, 1571-1638).
The circa 1633 map measured 16¼" x 21½" and
sold for $2124 (est. $2000/4000). A 38-piece set
of Tiffany & Co. sterling silver flatware in the
Olympian pattern, consisting of five-piece place
settings for six, plus serving pieces, sold for
$4130 (est. $4000/6000).

For more information, contact Rachel Davis
Fine Arts at (216) 939-1190 or see (www.
racheldavisfinearts.com).

AFUECATUIORNE

This 20th-century carved stone face Pair of tramp art frames, painted silver, with initials “GS” and “WP,”
is dated 1947 and signed “Benj.” with openwork and scalloped edges, sold for $2360.
Dennis Porcelli told Rachel Davis
that Joyce found this in Cleveland. Illustrated in Tramp Art: One
Having some nicks and scratches, Notch at a Time, this 27½" x
the 13½" x 12" x 3" carving sold for 21½" x 4½" hanging comb
$767 (est. $60/120). case made by Jacob Cob
sold for $944 (est. $500/800).
“All the works that had This 25" x 17" tramp art frame with
the documentation of being scalloped sides, crests at the top, and a
in Clifford Wallach’s book carved flower at the bottom, holding
brought premium prices,” a photograph, sold for $767 (est.
Davis pointed out, adding, $400/600) to a collector from Arkansas.
“This comb case sold to a It is illustrated in Tramp Art: One Notch
dealer from Chicago, at a Time.
Illinois, who came in for
the sale.”

Constructed of various hardwoods Illustrated in Clifford
and a cane seat, this folk art camp A. Wallach and Michael
stool by Hosea Hayden (1820- Cornish’s Tramp Art: One
1897) is signed at the top on the Notch at a Time (1998, p. 151),
crossbar “Hayden’s Improved this exceptional chip-carved
Tripod” and has finely inscribed tramp art grandfather clock,
decorations and inscriptions with 74" x 18" x 10", sold for
some hand coloring. Called a $2242 (est. $3000/5000).
“Hunter’s Tripod,” this stool is “I felt this sale price was
31½" high overall with an 11½" x soft,” Rachel Davis stated.
11½" seat, and it sold for $4720. “It was a wonderful clock.”

This carved stone by Ernest “Popeye” Reed
(1919-1985) in the form of a toad with a man’s
face, titled at front “Nixon,” is signed “E.
Reed / 1975 AD” on the bottom. Measuring
3½" x 5" x 7", it sold for $708 (est. $400/700)
to a collector from Woodstock, Illinois.

This 1892 “Buggy Handle” This 19th-century American
folk art camp stool by folk art storage chest
Hosea Hayden (1820-1897) with painted faux smoke
is constructed of various decoration is 13" x 19" x
hardwoods and features a 13¼", and it sold for $885
cane seat and finely incised (est. $200/400).
decorations and inscriptions.
Signed “Hosea Hayden
Invention maker and
engraver, Liberty Indiana,”
it sold for $4720. The piece is
33" high overall, and the seat
is 10¾" x 11¾".

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“Joyce bought several pieces by Charles Harris when I first did the show “Joyce was also one of the first people to discover Reverend
of Harris’s work back in 1995,” Rachel Davis stated. “It has taken twenty- Wagner,” Davis explained. “She started showing his work
five years, but Harris is finally starting to take off. I think it is in part that on Larchmere Boulevard (where she had a shop) back in the
African American art is so strong now.” These four oils on masonite by eighties. Wagner said this was one of his memory paintings
Charles Elmer Harris (1917-1993), known after the 1960s as Beni E. Kosh, of his days when he was a child picking cotton in Arkansas.
are (clockwise from left) Jeu Dix, Nuit Avec l’Homme Rouge, Jeu Quatorze, I thought this was a great buy; I thought it would bring more.”
and Jeu Six. Titled, dated 1965, and signed “Beni Kosh,” with estate stamps Picking Cotton, oil on board, 26" x 38", by the Reverend Albert
and numbers on the backs, they sold together for $826 (est. $400/600). Wagner (1924-2006) sold for $708 (est. $700/1000)
to a Cleveland, Ohio, collector.
Standing 9⅝" high,
this bottle whimsy with
four posts, each with
a separate yarn winder,
topped with more
winders with thread,
sold for $2006
(est. $100/200).

Best known for his wood carvings of Attributed to Daniel Rose, these two bottle whimsies with
people, Shields L. Jones (1901-1995) fans sold together for $1770 (est. $200/400). The one at
did this carved and painted wood the left stands 5½" high, reads “Love God,” and is dated
sculpture of a woman with blue eyes in “Nov. 13, 1915.” The other bottle, marked “God is Love”
1993. Signed “S. L. Jones. 93” on the and dated “Jan. 15, 1919,” is 5¼" high. They went to a
side, the 13¼" high x 6½" diameter collector from Loretto, Pennsylvania.
work sold to a collector from Chicago
for $1180 (est. $2000/4000).

This circa 1900 bottle whimsy has
nine yarn winders on a three-level
frame. The bottle is embossed
with “Sanford Inks One Quart
and Library Paste.” The 10¼"
high whimsy sold for $1770 to
a buyer from Philadelphia.

Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 73

AFUECATUIORNE This large early 20th-century

CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts Serapi rug, 11'10" x 20'10",

Successful CRN Sale from a Cambridge house took
off and sold to a collector
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo online for $24,000 (est.
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
$5000/10,000).
Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom of CRN
Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, routinely
present buyers with fine buying opportunities.
Buyers of every stripe know this and show up for their
dependably eclectic thrice-yearly auctions.

Nordblom is known to
keep a rapid bidding pace.

The October 6, 2019, sale was no exception, and
bidders demonstrated a willingness to bid hard for choice
objects. Conversely they passed up some lots. Auctioneer
Nordblom is known to keep a rapid bidding pace, and when
things slow down online or on the phone, he tries to move
them along. During bidding he observed to one staffer on
the phone with a bidder, “You’ve got a slow bidder there.”
Speaking some days after the sale, Nordblom admitted, “I
really, really liked the stuff.”

The sale began with an oil on canvas of a Catskills
landscape, 24" x 18", by Hudson River artist Asher Brown
Durand (1796-1886). It pleased bidders, who pushed it to
$11,400 (includes buyer’s premium) against the $6000/8000
estimate. Durand was a founding member of the National
Academy of Design.

For more information, call (617) 661-9582, or go to
(www.crnauctions.com).

From the 17th century or earlier, this This abstract still life with oranges, a 39½" x 39½" (sight
blue-and-white Chinese tile, 10¼" square, size) oil on canvas by French artist Claude Venard (1913-
decorated with figures and a bird in a 1999), sold online for $20,400 (est. $6000/8000). The picture
pavilion in a mountainous landscape fetched was executed with a palette knife, typical of the artist’s
$15,600 online (est. $400/600). post-Cubist style. The stretcher is stamped “Galerie Félix
Vercel / New York-Paris.” The painting came from a North
This 17" x 21" (sight size) oil on canvas, Beacon Hill, Boston, Shore of Massachusetts home, having been purchased in
a 1918 view from Boston Common, was signed and dated by Paris in the 1950s.
artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). It sold on the
phone for $12,000 (est. $3000/5000). It retains an old Museum
of Fine Arts label and remnants of other exhibition labels.

This snowy view of Saint-Simon, This 17th-century
an eastern Quebec village, by oil on canvas wintry
Canadian artist Alexander scene with figures
Young Jackson (1882-1974) sold is unsigned but
on the phone for $15,600 (est. was attributed
$7000/9000). The 8½" x 10½" to the school of
(sight size) oil on panel is signed David Teniers the
in script on the back, “St Simon, Younger (1610-
Que, / April 1939 / A.Y. Jackson.” 1690). Estimated at
Jackson, a member of the Group $800/1200, it sold on
of Seven and later of the Beaver the phone for $7800.
Hall Group, studied in Europe Relined, it measures
and taught in Montreal, Toronto, 18" x 23½" (sight
Kingston, and Banff. The picture, size), and it came
along with Jackson’s view of from a North Shore
Georgian Bay, came from a of Massachusetts
Cambridge home. Mascolo photo. collection.

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Auction-goers This 6½" x 5" (sight size) oval portrait
were saddened of George Washington after Gilbert
to learn Stuart (1755-1828) sold online for $5400
that Ezra, a (est. $700/900). The oil on cardboard
mainstay of image is unsigned, but a handwritten
CRN Auctions fragment on the reverse refers to
for nearly 15 Elizabeth Parke Custis Law, Martha
years, had died Washington’s granddaughter (George
in September. Washington’s step-granddaughter),
The Tennessee having been present while Stuart painted
rescue dog, Washington. There was also a mention of
a handsome an auction in the 1930s.
flat-coated
retriever, wasn’t
just a pretty
face—he bore
some serious
responsibilities in the gallery. He collected the mail each day and
delivered it to the appropriate place, and he would on occasion
nick a bidding card or catalog from a holder’s grasp, assuming
it was mail and returning it to the desk. He patrolled the floor
during auctions, keeping order, watchful for any treat or crumb
thereof, and he was gracious, allowing people to pet him.

This 1870 oil on canvas view of a pair of falcons
with a captured wood thrush, 24" x 19" (sight
size), by Wilhelm Oscar Engstrom (1830-1877)
realized $3600 (est. $500/800). Engstrom, who was
born and died in Dusseldorf, Germany, studied
and painted in Sweden and is often considered a
Swedish artist.

Higgins Dock, this 24" x 32" (sight size) oil on canvas Storm, this powerful wood engraving on cream This 12" x 16" (sight size) oil on panel, Georgian Bay
by New York artist Sylvia Carewe (1906-1981), was rice paper by Ohio-born California artist Paul by Alexander Young Jackson (Canadian, 1882-1974),
estimated at $300/500 and sold online for $1200. Hambleton Landacre (1893-1963), 8" x 10" (image depicts the Ontario bay located on Lake Huron.
“Higgins Dock” may refer to the former Higgins Wharf size), brought $4800 (est. $800/1200). It is titled and Estimated at $7000/9000, it went to a phone bidder for
in Provincetown where Carewe studied with Hans numbered 32/60 in the margin. $10,200. Mascolo photo.
Hofmann. She also designed tapestries for Aubusson;
her textiles are in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, among other places. The picture
came from the estate of Carol Monica of Cambridge,
proprietor of Cambridge’s Games People Play.

China Blue X, this 52" x 43" (sight size) oil on canvas by The 18th-century Pennsylvania Chippendale This compelling watercolor portrait of poet
California artist Edward Moses (1926-2018), dominated walnut tea table with a dish top sold on a single Robert Frost (1874-1963) by Boston artist
the gallery with its vibrancy and size. Moses seldom bid for $3600 (est. $1500/2500). Charles A. Mahoney (1906-1992), 17½" x
made use of a paintbrush; instead he stained, scraped, 13½" (sight size), sold for $600 (est. $400/600).
mopped, and splattered his canvases. Estimated at It came from a North Shore of Massachusetts
$8000/12,000, the picture realized $9000. The painting collection. Frost remains the only poet to be
has a lengthy exhibition history and is inscribed in awarded four Pulitzer prizes, among a raft of
pencil on the reverse “E. Branco.” The artist’s mother other awards and prizes. Mahoney exhibited
was Olivia Branco. Mascolo photo. and was published widely. He served as
president of the Guild of Boston Artists and
the Boston Watercolor Society.

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AFUECATUIORNE Karin Phillips and Carl
Nordblom gathered
This large (18" high) Gorham a group of fine tea
bronze sundial figure of golfer caddies that defied their
Bobby Jones (1902-1971) by conservative estimates. A
British-born sculptor Edwin E. Georgian serpentine shell
Codman (1876-1955) sold on the example (left) with two
phone for $4200 (est. $3000/5000). compartments sailed past
Produced at the Gorham foundry, the $700/900 estimate to
the sundial is impressed “Slow Back $3600. Another example
Time Right,” an instruction for (right), also shell, with
golfers. It is thought to date from silver inlay, made $3000
the early 1930s in honor of the (est. $600/800). CRN
photos.
golfer who founded and helped
design the Augusta National Salem Federal mahogany settee,
Golf Club in 1933. attributed to Samuel Field
Another example McIntire (1780-1819), with scrolled
is installed at arms on pineapple-carved posts
the Augusta, and recent harlequin upholstery,
Georgia, club. sold in the gallery for $1920 (est.
$800/1200).
Bidders liked this
English brass
skeleton clock,
circa 1850, with a
replaced dome and
drove it to $3600
(est. $500/700). It is
signed “Bunyan &
Gardner / Salford.”

This New England Hepplewhite grain-

painted chest, circa 1820, was likely from a
member of the Thomas Matteson family of
South Shaftsbury, Vermont, and it retains
the original feather-painted decoration.
Estimated at $2500/3500, it sold on the phone
for $2760. Mascolo photo.

The 18th-century Pennsylvania corner cabinet in This New England Federal mahogany sideboard with inlay is This 18th-century Pennsylvania
the original grain paint came from a Pennsylvania
family that moved to New England. Described as small, 41½" x 45½" x 24½", and retains the original inset white Chippendale walnut armchair with
“exceptionally clean” and estimated at $4000/6000, marble top. It was a very good buy for the online bidder who
it sold on the phone for $5100. Mascolo photo. got it for $1320 (est. $4000/6000). It had descended in a New carved knees on cabriole legs was
Hampshire family. Mascolo photo. estimated at $1000/1500 and brought
76 Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 $2280. Mascolo photo.

FAEUACTTUIROEN

This 18th-century

Spanish colonial

silver escutcheon
plate in a heart shape

with a repoussé

double-headed eagle,
11" high, came
from Peru and had
been purchased at

Christie’s in New

York City in 1988. It
brought $2400 (est.
$600/800).

This large 18th- or 19th-century Russian icon, This 18th- or 19th-century Florentine table
32" x 28", with seven painted panels came from
the collection of a Massachusetts man who was cabinet in architectural form with nine disguised
chargé d’affaires under the American ambassador drawers and four hidden ones and painted
to the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Estimated at faux stained-glass windows, all ebonized and
$1500/2000, it sold online for $6600. ornately inlaid, has a lift top for access to
additional compartments. It brought $5700 (est.
This Boston Sheraton mahogany table $2000/3000). Mascolo photo.
with an inlaid game board top of tiger
maple and rosewood, drawers to each
end, and reeded legs came from an area
home and sold on the phone for $6600
(est. $1500/2000).

Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 77

SFHEOATWURE

San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Fall Show

by Alice Kaufman

The more things change... In the lobby
The event now called the San Francisco Fall Show, formerly the was this
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show and then the San Francisco Fall vignette
Art & Antiques Show, has changed names, dates, layout, rules that called for illustrating the
material to be over 50 years old, and focus. show’s theme,
“Wanderlust:
The more things stay the same.... Around the
The show is still gorgeous, still filled with art and antiques that range from World with
minimal to the most extravagant. The show is still populated with prestigious Art, Antiques
dealers, still host to what many in the antiques world and the San Francisco & Design.”
social world consider the party of the year. The 2019 show was kicked off by The custom-
an evening preview gala held on October 2, and the show continued through designed hand-
October 6. painted scenic
wallpaper,
“I will say to those who were out of town, “The Grand
this was not the year to miss!” Canal,” was made by de Gournay.

The focus was on attracting a younger crowd. Show chair Suzanne Tucker Matisse’s Studio (La
Regina, Nice 1941), this
said, “First and foremost, we reestablished a ‘Young Collectors Committee’ 2019 acrylic on canvas
of the under-forty crowd—high-profile individuals who are philanthropically by Damian Elwes, was
minded, socially involved in the city, as well as being art and design lovers. an early sale at the
booth of Modernism
They in turn reached out to their peers, bringing them into the fold of the show Inc., San Francisco, and
could be emblematic of
and its many events: opening night gala, show days, lectures, book signings....” the new spirit of the Fall
show—new, colorful,
Tucker continued, “Additionally we are thinking ‘younger’ in the antiques young. The asking
price for the 66" x 66"
world. We asked our dealers to think beyond antiques and bring one-of-a-kind painting was $90,000.
What was new at this
pieces from antiquity to present day. This has brought a more contemporary show? “More art,” said
the dealer.
vibe to the show and speaks to an energetic mix, which has been well

received. Ultimately, for a collector, it is more about the quality, provenance,

and uniqueness of the exceptional pieces at the show.”

The appeal to youth continued with the choice of India Hicks as honorary

chair. Said Tucker, Hicks “has an amazing Instagram following and an appeal

across generations, and this also served the show well. India was the perfect
high-profile draw, addressed our ‘Wanderlust’ theme brilliantly, and gave a
fantastic sold-out lecture.”

In addition, the show’s PR and marketing team “really stepped up our social
media efforts (and we are always urging dealers to do the same): during the
show we’ve had Instagram takeovers by India Hicks, Timothy Corrigan,

Bunny Williams, Ken Fulk.... This is an ever-evolving work in progress and a

crucial component to reach a younger crowd.”

The result, according to Tucker: “The feedback across the board noted a

new energy to the show this year. And the gala seemed to have more of a
fashion vibe this year, which was fun and definitely not lost on the press.
The dealers all felt we successfully tapped into the new, younger buyers—

including designers that were previously not considering buying antiques but

did this year.”

There were 46 dealers this time as compared to 51 in 2018, “solely because

several of our dealers took larger booths. The square footage of exhibitors was

only slightly expanded, but it gave the show a more open, airy look which was

quite beautiful.”
Did the dates make any difference? Tucker stated, “New dates are always

challenging because people are creatures of habit and don’t react well to
change. While some dealers will tell you it made no difference because they
had successful sales, others will say the opposite. I will say to those who were

out of town, this was not the year to miss!”
Dates for 2020? “We are definitely pushing hard to get our dates later

in October or even early November, but it’s a tight juggling act with Fort
Mason and the multitude of events held there. No news just yet...but mark
your calendars for October and the same for 2021, which will be the fortieth

anniversary of the show.”
For more information, see (www.sffallshow.org).

An open and shut case: Tony Bravo, a San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
reporter, wrote in a story on the Fall show, “The black and white Piero Fornasetti
‘Architectura Trumeau’ secretary cabinet, with its lacquered wood depicting a series
of columns and windows on the doors and drawers, was one of the most talked
about pieces at the Fall show’s opening night gala on Wednesday, Oct. 2.” Bravo
added, “…just a few years ago, the piece would not have been allowed in the Fort
Mason Festival Center for the event, formerly known as the Fall Antiques Show.”
In 2016 the show dropped its rule that items must be at least 50 years old. The 86"
high secretary cabinet at the booth of Milord Antiquités, Montreal, a six-year show
veteran, was priced at $45,000.

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FEASTHUORWE

This mid-19th century American cast-iron pilot house eagle of Grace Hartigan’s oil and collage on paper,
“exceptionally large scale” was priced at $8500 by Yew Tree 9¼" x 13", was priced at $12,500 by The
House Antiques, New York City. Orange Chicken, New York City. Don Joint,
who helmed the booth, is based in Milton,
Jeune Fille, this 14" x 10" oil on paper Pennsylvania, and is a four-year show veteran.
by Saif Wanly, an Egyptian artist, He said he noticed more people attending this
was $5250 from the Los Angeles Fine time and called the Fall show “nicely run, my
Art Gallery. Any sales? The gallery favorite show to do. The promoters treat us
reported “a very successful opening,” like gold, and that is rare.”
and said that 15 paintings sold to
“younger people who were buying.”

Antonio’s Bella Casa, Los Angeles, offered this Roman marble The dealer in the booth of S.J. Shrubsole, New
pedestal table. The top of the 30" high x 39½" diameter table
is circa 1850, while the flared, fluted base is circa 1915. The York City, described this circa 1880 “slipper
price was $17,800. The dealer, who has exhibited at the show for
dish,” 18" long, as “one of four such dishes ever
three years, said it is “a lovely show to do” where “everybody is produced by Tiffany.” The dish was offered for
a price “in the six figures, and the first number
friendly and lovely.” isn’t a one.” Sales? “Minor sales, major interest.”

At the booth of Jeff Bridgman Antiques, York The opening night party? “A blast as always.”
County, Pennsylvania, this 1936-38 half-sheet
horizontal broadside lithograph for Col. Tim
McCoy’s Real Wild West and Rough Riders of
the World was $5250.

This ebonized and brass- This 36" high escalier console table and mirror was designed
inlaid table, described by by Drake Anderson and is part of Charles Burnand’s ICONS
the dealer as “in the manner collection (England, 2018). Made from gypsum and wood veneer
of Peters of Genoa” and with nickel detail, the set is part of an edition of eight and was
“distinctively Florentine in priced at $27,000 at the booth of Guy Regal, New York City,
character,” with a marble where business was good. The dealer said, “We sold several
and pietre dure top, first significant pieces on opening night.”
quarter of the 19th century,
29¾" high, was $68,000 Galen Lowe of Seattle is a 12-year Fall show veteran. “The mix
from Carlton Hobbs LLC,
New York City. is changing,” he told M.A.D. What’s new? “More art—paintings,

Epoca, San Francisco, was prints, canvases, more contemporary. The appeal is to a younger
asking $22,800 for this “chic
pair of French sycamore crowd. At the party, where people were dressed to impress, the
marquetry open armchairs
in the manner of Maurice food was as good as ever. There was a caviar station!” Lowe’s
Jallot.” The chairs have
been restored with new appeal to a young crowd included Train Box Car, a “massive [33"
boar-skin upholstery. This
was the gallery’s seventh
year at the show. The dealer
commented, “Some booth
spaces were different. There
were a few new dealers. The
show was well attended, and
there were good lectures.”

long] pressed steel 20th-century toy boxcar…with 2019 tags and

monikers of contemporary artists/graffiti artists.” Lowe was asking

$4800 for the boxcar.

Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 79

SFHEOATWURE Dallas tribal art dealer
Joel Cooner was offering
Eze et la Cap Ferrat by Gabriel Deschamps (b. 1919), oil just a few pieces of tribal
on canvas, 28¾" x 36¼", was $33,000 from Haynes Fine art at this show and was
Art, Broadway and London, England. featuring more fine art
instead. He described
Antiques dealer the show now as “more
Daniel Stein from designer” and had stocked
San Francisco’s his booth with that in
Jackson Square mind. This painting
asked $3850 for by Jean-Marc Louis
this 86⅝" high (Belgian, b. 1959), from
Irish George III the “Giraffe” series, 2018,
inlaid mahogany acrylic and conté crayon
tall clock made on paper applied to board,
by John Mackie 33" x 25" framed, was
of Richhill. Stein priced at $5800.
described it as 18th
century and later. Business seemed brisk at the booth of Foster-Gwin Art & Antiques,
San Francisco, where new paintings were being hung mid-show.
Five-year show veteran Rainforest Baskets Shown here is an untitled work by Kazuko Inoue (b. 1946). The
Gallery, Portland, Oregon, was selling baskets 40" x 70" acrylic on canvas from 2000 was priced at $22,000.
made in Panama, hoping to get recognition for
individual weavers. The 12" x 14" basket at This
top by Niyra Nefria took 13 months to weave Chippendale
and was $4200. The 10" x 7" basket in front carved
by a Wounaan weaver took six months to mahogany
weave and was $1290. The third basket was wing chair,
not for sale. Asked why the booth was always Philadelphia
busy, the dealer credited “a contemporary circa 1770,
look and an approachable price range.” 27⅝" high, was
$68,500 from
Roberto Freitas
of Stonington,
Connecticut.

This gilded beechwood Art Deco bergère “in This screen is by Jesus “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira Mid-century modern specialist Michael DeAngelis, whose
Louis XVI taste,” Paris, circa 1920, was priced (1882-1977), “the greatest Jalisco artist from the shop is on Valencia Street, one of San Francisco’s hottest
at $9500 by James Sansum of New York City. 20th century,” who has been called “the Mexican shopping neighborhoods, was asking $1800 for the English
“Always a great show, the main show on the Chagall.” The 77.55" x 86.6" four-panel screen 1960s leather bulldog footrest. The Danish rosewood chair
West Coast,” said the five-year veteran. “The is painted in oil on both sides and was priced at by “star designer” Ole Wanscher (1903-1985) cost $12,000.
town really supports it. And I love that it $110,000 by Rodrigo Rivero Lake, Mexico City. “The show is evolving,” three-year veteran exhibitor
supports a charity.” The show is an annual and longtime show attendee DeAngelis said.
benefit for Enterprise for Youth, an intern/
mentoring program for high school students.

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AFUECATUIORNE

John McInnis Auctioneers, These two figures representing Peace and Plenty that form an arch Zach Lewis (left) and John McInnis ready themselves
Amesbury, Massachusetts were carved and painted in 1801 by ship carver Joseph Wilson for the auction.
(1779-1857) of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They brought $28,800
Maritime (est. $20,000/30,000). Wilson made around 45 larger-than-life figures
Collections of historical and mythological personages for Timothy Dexter, the
self-styled Lord Timothy Dexter, for his Federal home on High
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo Street in Newburyport. Each was painted colorfully, around 5' tall,
All prices include the buyer’s premium and mounted on a base. The effect, judging from period photo-
graphs, must have been daunting, placed as they were on fence
John McInnis Auctioneers had gathered posts, across the facade of the building, along the roofline, and atop
up several marine collections, and outbuildings. Many of the figures were said to have been blown away
they were the nucleus of the October in the Great Gale of September 1815, and the remaining ones were
5 and 6, 2019, auctions held under a tent burned for firewood. Only a few have survived. Peace and Plenty are
in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The sale was headed to the Museum of Old Newbury. McInnis photo.
moved from its customary location on
Main Street in Amesbury across town to A detailed journal of the
a warehouse next to a cornfield. It was a 108-day voyage of the ship
great countryside. China in 1820 from Calcutta
to Salem by Captain Hiram
Bidders liked the Putnam (1786-1880) notes
group of half-hulls. the daily courses, winds, and
other matters. It sold online
One collection came from a family in for $720 (est. $300/500).
which several generations served at the Putnam later moved to
Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Syracuse, New York, where
Labrador. Many of the 56 or so lots of he was involved in business
Grenfell artifacts retained the Grenfell and real estate investments
Labrador Industries label. and served on town boards. He was instrumental
in starting public education in Syracuse and also
Bidders liked the group of half-hulls active in the abolitionist movement. McInnis photo.
offered and bid easily on them.

For more information, call (978) 388-
0400 or visit (www.mcinnisauctions.com).

This 19th-century Victorian
cut-glass ship decanter in vibrant
green was a good buy at $210
(est. $200/300). McInnis photo.

A trove of textiles, sealskin boots, artwork, toys, and ephemera made This rare Grenfell mat, “Puffin in Arctic with Ice Pans,” in nylon over bur-
at the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador was gath- lap, 12" x 16½", with applied seal fur went to an on-site buyer for $1200
ered by several generations of volunteers and workers from a Boston (est. $300/500). It retains the Grenfell Labrador Industries label.
family. Grenfell mats attracted the greatest interest. This rare deer
mat, “Deer Feeding during Snowfall,” in nylon over burlap, 13" x This pair of World War I binoculars from
18", sold on the phone for $1200 (est. $400/600). The mat retains the a German warship sold online for $420
Grenfell Labrador Industries label. (est. $300/400). McInnis photo.

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This large (36" x 48") trade
sign in the form of an octant is

marked “Bates,” and it sold
for $3600 (est. $400/600).
McInnis photo.

Account books and documents relating to the New Bedford whale ship
Greyhound, owned by Charles R. Tucker (1809-1876), brought $1020 (est.
$650/800). The items had come from the Tucker family. McInnis photo.

This 9" long scrimshaw powder horn with brass fittings
is engraved with three sailing vessels, a small steam train
with figures pulling six cars and approaching a settle-
ment, houses, and foliage surrounding a red heart. It was
accompanied by an early bellows (not shown) decorated
with an image of a sailing ship. The lot realized $740
(est. $450/600). McInnis photo.

Documents, This large (7¾" This 58" x 35" hooked rug,
photographs, books, a Bible, high) scrimshaw worked with a likeness of the
a will, and diaries from the Tucker family tooth decorated Charles W. Morgan against a
of New Bedford sold for $960 (est. $450/600). with figures and ground of coastline imagery,
McInnis photo. floral elements on sold for $600 (est. $100/300).
both sides brought
$2640.

This 36" long carved sperm whale by Clark G. Voorhees (1911-1980) is impressed with
his monogram, and it sold for $2700 (est. $1000/1500).

This brass-bound campaign
chest with three drawers
and a fitted interior brought
$1320 (est. $600/700).
McInnis photo.

This brass-bound
camphorwood cam-
paign chest sold for
$1200 (est. $450/600).
McInnis photo.

This 17th- or 18th-century Spanish table is inlaid with a central compass rose,
geometric elements, and lettering. Estimated at $1000/2000, it realized $1440.
McInnis photo.

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AFUECATUIORNE

This large (15" x 68") half-hull is of the extreme clipper Winged Arrow, which
was built in Boston in 1852 by brothers E. & H.O. Briggs for owners Baker
& Morrill and served on the Glidden & Williams packet line between Boston
and San Francisco. The hull model, estimated at $3000/5000, brought $3000.
The Winged Arrow and sister ship Southern Cross are the subjects of Fitz
Henry Lane’s 1853 view of the two ships in Boston harbor, now at the
Cincinnati Art Museum. McInnis photo.

This painted working half-hull, 16" x 70", is mounted on a red back- Two 13-star flags brought $2400 (est. $150/250). One is marked “U.S.
board with square pegs and has red and white lifts. It sold for $1920 (est. Ensign No 8 / Navy Yard, New York / Dec. 1896,” and the other reads
$2500/3500). “U.S.E. No. 8 / U.S.N.Y. / Cavite P.I. / Jul. 29, 1902.” McInnis photo.

The 50" long working half-hull model of the barque Enrico, which was built Two late 19th-century globes
by Gilman Joslin, Boston, each
by Brown & Lovell for T.B. Wales & Co., all of Boston, sold for $3000 (est. on an iron tripod base, sold for
$2500/3000). The ship was fitted out at the New York Navy Yard and sailed to the a combined $13,800. The 16"
Arctic in search of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), an explorer and physician diameter terrestrial example
who had made two voyages there to locate explorer Sir John Franklin. Kane was sold for $7800, and the celestial
rescued after his second voyage ended in having to abandon ship in 1855. globe made $6000.

This 24" x 36" oil on canvas portrait
of the clipper Allioth is signed by Brit-
ish artist I. Tudgay and dated 1852.
It sold for $2100 (est. $3500/5500).
The ship carried tea from Formosa to
Boston importers Williams & Hall on
Broad Street, and the picture hung in
their offices for many years.

The ship’s portrait of the motor yacht This cast brass model of Martin’s Patent
Self-Canting Anchor by Frenchman F. Martin
Camargo in the Bay of Naples, a 28"
brought $1800 (est. $500/600). Martin’s anchor,
x 30" gouache by Italian artist Luca
Papaluca (1890-1932/4), sold for $840 patented around 1864, was used widely in Britain,
(est. $1500/2500). When the 225' long the U.S., and France. This model retains the orig-
inal leather case lettered in gilt on the top, “A Son
ship was built in Boston in 1928, it was Excellence / Mr. Le Ministre de la Marine” and

the largest private boat built in the “Martin’s Patent Self-canting Anchor.” Martin’s
U.S. that year. It belonged to Julius self-canting anchor was a great improvement
Fleischmann Jr. of Cincinnati, whose
forebears brought Fleischmann’s over previous anchors.

yeast to market. Fleischmann and his

young family embarked on a two-

year round-the-world voyage aboard

the yacht in 1931. Along the way

they made copious notes and charted
navigation through Japanese waters;
their notes and charts were used by
the U.S. military in World War II. The
Fleischmanns were also involved in

rescuing castaways.

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Horst Auction Center, Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Sale Excels in the Heartland

by Karl H. Pass
Photos courtesy Horst Auction Center

Horst Auction Center held a 798-lot sale on Measuring 49" x 49", this piecework
October 25 and 26, 2019, at its facility in Ephrata, wall hanging with central panels
Pennsylvania, titled “Folk Art from an Old Time
Ohio Collection.” The total gross was $298,435. Horst depicting creation scenes and
does not charge a buyer’s premium for in-house bidding.
Online bidders pay a 10% buyer’s premium. Adam and Eve sold for $9800 to

We rarely see today’s collector dealer Kelly Kinzle of New Oxford,
amass objects like this. Pennsylvania, on behalf of a collector.
Kinzle said he thought the piece was

of 19th-century German origin when

contacted following the sale.

For those in the know about Pennsylvania antiques, This bright and
it was no secret; the sale was on behalf of collector vivid circa 1835
Ross Trump (no relation to the president). Ross Trump four-color spatter
(age 99) of Medina, Ohio, is a dealer and very private cup and saucer
individual. Medina is a bedroom community of both went for $9200.
Akron and Cleveland. It didn’t come as a surprise that
Trump would choose not to have his name plastered on to have the things sold near where many of them were that sold for $1300 fell through the proverbial crack. A
the front of a catalog. Old tags on many of the items made. For example, Joseph Lehn (1798-1892) lived near small chunk of the base was missing, and it had minor
had his name on them. Hammer Creek Mennonite Church near Clay, in northern wear and roughness, but by no means was it in poor
Lancaster County, just down the road from Ephrata. condition. Many people active in today’s market have
Not overly active in the marketplace for about two been told that antiques need to be pristine. The lot after
decades, Trump did the bulk of his collecting in the A fair amount of Lehn’s work has been coming out. A the eaglet was a millinery shop papier-mâché mannequin
1950s. Yes, roughly 70 years ago. This was indeed fine yellow cup and saucer sold for $4000 to the trade. head with a bonnet, which did better at $1600.
an old-time collection. And what was sold is just a A comparable example sold for $8000 at a catalog sale
portion of the collections; however, it was a very nice roughly a month earlier at Horst. Much of the spatter china found receptive bidders,
cross section of material. Trump had sent his pottery to showing an overall healthy current market. A 5"
Crocker Farm, which mostly sold his redware over the A sugar bucket by Lehn in good condition brought diameter yellow thistle pattern dish in good condition
last few years, primarily in 2013. $3100 from the trade. A fine miniature paint-decorated with mild discoloration went for $1450, a yellow thistle
chest by Lehn also sold to the trade; it brought $4200. A pattern child’s cup and saucer in good condition sold
Trump and partner Ed Brown (Edson James Brown, comparable example sold for $3567 to a Pennsylvania for $2100, and a blue sailboat pattern creamer with a
age 93) did a lot of buying from dealer Hattie Brunner. collector at Skinner on November 3 (from the Tom and restored spout rim sold for $3500. A rare four-color
Brown was a collector as well, yet not on the scale Carolyn Porter collection). An unusual small bucket rainbow cup and saucer sold for $9200. The cup had
as Trump. The two were also close to August Knapp by Lehn with a bail handle and three bands went to an a flake on the foot, likely from kiln removal. A blue
(1924-2019). online bidder and realized $2300, and a fine wooden cannon pattern cup and saucer with a flake and spider
turned and paint-decorated salt (a wider form than egg line sold for $2550. It is a rare pattern.
Hattie Klapp Brunner (1889-1982) of Reinholds, cups) by Lehn went for $1000 to the trade.
Pennsylvania, was among the best-known antiques A Sugarcreek, Ohio, paint-decorated lift-top chest by
dealers in the country from the 1920s to the ’70s. A It was certainly a different era for Trump and Brown’s Valentine Yoder brought a strong $5200. Many of the
retrospective exhibition of her life as a dealer was held at generation, and they were a different breed of collector. early wooden carved butter prints also did well. A round
the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley in Ephrata We rarely see today’s collector amass objects like this. butter print with a carved log cabin and barrel, cataloged
in 2010. Thanks to Raymond Brunner and the work of Supply and demand were higher a half century ago, as a rare President William Henry Harrison campaign-
Clarence Spohn, her receipt books, correspondence, honest wear was more acceptable, and leaving things inspired butter print, for sold for $3190 to an online
bills, etc. are available to researchers. Trump began alone was the norm. More often than not, the collector’s bidder, underbid by a dealer in the room. The log cabin
buying from her in 1948 and was a regular throughout mindset today is different. “Where will it go?” was a and cider symbols were seen as grassroots emblems.
the ’50s and ’60s, buying several hundred items. The saying not in the vocabulary of die-hard collectors in A round butter print with two carved beehives sold for
last receipt for him was in 1973. Her shop/house was their day. Minimalists they were not. $2050, as did an oval butter print with tulips and hearts.
called The Tulip Shop. Traveling to Reinholds, which
today remains a remote and isolated enclave in northern Trump loved Pennsylvania material, much of it Any future sale dates have not been set as of press
Lancaster County, was no small venture in those days, Pennsylvania German or made for the Pennsylvania time, but Brent Horst stated that the consignor was
and it likely involved Route 30 the bulk of the way German market, such as spatterware, textiles, red tole, pleased with the results, so we will see.
from Medina to Lancaster County—the Pennsylvania butter prints, folk carvings, chalkware, glassware,
Turnpike wasn’t completed until 1956. tin cookie cutters, baskets, wallpaper boxes, candy For more information, call Horst Auction Center
containers, wrought-iron utensils, fraktur, and more. at (717) 738-3080 or visit the website
Using Brunner’s code system of translating the (www.horstauction.com).
alphabetical phrase of “Mary I Love U” to numeric, Of the things that fell short, a 6¼" tall Schimmel eaglet
one can decipher her costs. A receipt for Trump in 1961
shows a “Lehn bucket” for $10. She sold the bucket at
her cost.

A 49" x 49" wool fabric piecework embroidered
wall hanging on dark blue background depicting tulips
and birds along the border and with creation scenes,
including Adam and Eve, in panels in the center also
came through Brunner’s shop. The wall hanging was
once owned by author Dr. Cornelius Weygandt (1871-
1957). With wear and losses, it attracted plenty of
attention at the preview and a debate regarding its date
and place of origin. It is German and from the 19th
century, according to dealer Kelly Kinzle, who bought
the piece for $9800 on behalf of a collector.

The sale (well over 1000 objects) did well as a whole.
It was marketed and presented well by the auction
company. Online bidding aided the sale greatly. It was a
busy weekend in the region. A popular country antiques
show in Elverson was taking place, and the Zipps of
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, were holding a sale.

The timing of a sale and the state of the current
marketplace are often more of a factor than the actual
auction house conducting the sale. It was interesting

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This 19th-century wooden paint- The small blue-ground Compass Artist box, 4½" x
decorated sugar bucket by Joseph 4" x 3", went to the trade for $8000.
Lehn sold for $3100 to the trade.
Pass photo.

This large circa 1810 full-sheet colorful fraktur taufschein with two
parrots flanking a central heart and lower peacocks sold for $6000.

The small paint-decorated
wooden slide-lid box, 5¾" x 3" x
2½", with a harbor scene on the
lid, a house in a pasture on one
side, and a harbor scene on the
other side sold for $2500. The box
dates from the first half of the
19th century.

This early and rare fraktur, circa 1789, attributed to the
Hanovertown Artist sold for $5300 to collector/dealer Vernon
Gunnion of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

This small folk art carved and painted
wooden horse, circa 1890, realized
$675. Pass photo.

A collector paid $2250 for this dome-lid tapered

straight-sided wrigglework decorated tin coffeepot
with a straight tapered spout and strap handle. A note

inside the coffeepot said that it had brought $1025 at a
Pennypacker’s sale in 1966.

This framed 5¼" x 8¼" watercolor drawing depicting a This large tin cookie cutter depicting a rider on This folk art cuckoo-type wall clock by Adelard
ram and birds in a tree, attributed to the Schwenkfelder horseback sold to an online buyer for $660. Pass photo. Courville of East Brookfield, Massachusetts, sold
community and inscribed “1861,” sold for $1700. for $1200. Pass photo.

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This square carved wooden butter This circa 1930 large life-size solid-pour form cast
print sold to a collector for $1450. chalk cat went for $270. There were many cat-motif
Pass photo. items in many mediums in the sale. Pass photo.

The circa 1930 cat figural hooked rug sold for $110. Pass photo.

This early blue twill A fine Mennonite pieced
fabric man’s vest with a ball-shaped hanging
checkered design front
and with tintype buttons pincushion/rattle, circa
sold for $450. Pass photo. 1860, realized $775.

This unusual small bucket, 7" high x 9¼" diameter, by
Joseph Lehn sold for $2300. Pass photo.

Likely by Barbara
Ebersole, the
framed watercolor
of a bird with floral
work realized
$1500 from a
collector in the
salesroom.
Pass photo.

This outstanding circa 1847 crewelwork The cut wool fabric hooked rug of a house, with floral corners This small plank-seat child’s salmon-ground paint-
stitch decorated hand towel, 64" x 18¾", and a colorful banded border but with a large stain and some decorated chair, circa 1860, sold for $2000.
sold for $875.
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Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey

$4.3 Million “B” Auction

by Lita Solis-Cohen Robert Martin Robert Martin created this Martin Brothers small triple
Photos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center of Martin Broth- bird tobacco jar, England, 1914, salt-glazed stoneware
ers made this and ebonized wood, in excellent condition with original
September 21 and 22, 2019, was the first bird tobacco jar, leather seals, heads and base incised “R.W. Martin and
weekend sale at Rago Arts & Auction Center in England, 1899, salt- Bro. London + Southall 29.1.1914.” The 7¼" x 7" x 2¾"
Lambertville, New Jersey, after Rago merged glazed stoneware and jar sold for $52,500 (est. $50,000/75,000). At the Rago auc-
with Chicago auctioneer Richard Wright. There ebonized wood, head tion on March 1, 2014, it had brought $111,750. A single
were some subtle changes, but this was a Rago sale, incised “R.W. Martin + bird (not shown), 11" tall, that sold for $27,500 at Rago
though Richard Wright was there with two members Bros. London + South- in October 2013 sold for $50,000 at this sale. But most of
of his staff and took the gavel. all 11-1899,” base incised the Martin Brothers lots sold for low estimates or less,
“Martin Bros. London + and for less than the collectors paid for them, Many were
Three first-rate auctioneers—David Rago, Southall 11-1899.” The 16½" bought in 2014 at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, U.K.
Suzanne Perrault, and Richard Wright—moved the x 6½" jar sold for $62,500 (est.
sale along steadily. In two days, they sold $4,385,063 $35,000/45,000). Ex-John Cathles This exceptional large early
(including buyers’ premiums) worth of 20th-century Hill, it had sold at Woolley Newcomb College vase with
design, 79% of the lots offered. & Wallis, June 2014, for calla lilies by Harriet Joor
approximately $82,750. It (1875-1965), New Orleans, 1904,
The 788 lots were illustrated and described in five has a small chip to the back signed, dated, and numbered
handy 6" x 8" well-illustrated catalogs—a collection edge of the head and light “NC/HJ/VV37,” 11" x 5¼", sold
of Martin Brothers ceramics, early 20th-century wear to the wood base. for $21,250 (est. $15,000/20,000).
design, studio ceramics, modern design, and It has tight hairlines from the
contemporary glass. The catalogs were available rim, but Rago called it the
online, complete with condition reports that were prettiest piece of Newcomb he
available in printed form in the salesroom. Three had seen.
bidding platforms—Bidsquare, LiveAuctioneers,
and Artsy—handled 1489 bidders from 32 countries
who competed with 60 in-house bidders, 203 phone
bidders, and 69 absentee bidders.

Why buy reproductions when
you can have the originals?

The smaller catalogs were guides to the stylish Robert Martin of Martin Broth-
ers made this tall bird tobacco jar,
presale exhibition in the main gallery and in the England, 1899, salt-glazed stoneware
newly acquired secondary showroom just two blocks and ebonized wood, head incised
away. Wright said he had nothing to do with the “R.W. Martin + Bros. London +
Southall 2-1899,” base incised “Mar-
design of the presale exhibition; it was the work of tin Bros. London + Southall 2-1899,”
the Rago staff, and the smaller catalogs were David with a loose original paper label inside
Rago’s idea. Wright did convince Rago to change the body. The 14" x 6¾" jar sold for
$60,000 (est. $45,000/65,000). It had
bidding increments. sold at Woolley & Wallis in England
in June 2014 for approximately
Wright said we will see some other changes in the $144,815.

future, but by and large it will be business as usual Grueby two-color vase with blossoms,
Boston, circa 1905, circular pottery
for both houses, including transparent reporting of stamp, incised “RE 3/1,” with rem-
results that reflect the strengths and some weaknesses nants of paper label, 13¾" x 7½",
in the markets. Both Rago and Wright will continue sold for $11,250 (est. $6000/9000).
There is a lamp fitting to the top down
with their own sales and schedule some sales under into the neck and a fleck to one leaf.
the new Wright-Rago partnership. The September
sale was Rago’s fall sale.

First under the hammer on Saturday morning
was the Andrew Furer and Elle Douglas collection
of Martin Brothers pottery, including 20 Wally
birds, some face jugs, grotesques, and a clock. The
collection was put together over the last decade
with the help of British dealer Alison Davey, who
calls her business, founded in 1997, AD Antiques. A
member of the British Antique Dealers’ Association
(BADA) and an exhibitor at vetted shows in the
U.K., Davey is known for selling so-called Wally
bird tobacco jars, often modeled on public figures,
as well as other ceramics of the period.

These Martin Brothers bird tobacco jars are
enormously appealing and have had an international
following ever since London dealer Richard Dennis
championed them in the 1970s. The market was very

hot in 2013 and 2014 when Rago and Woolley &

Wallis in Salisbury, U.K., sold many of the lots on
offer this time. The market has apparently cooled.
Of the 28 lots of Martin Brothers, 21 lots sold, most

for low estimates or below, and for far less than the

collectors had paid for them. For example, a small
triple bird tobacco jar made in 1914, just 7¼" tall,
that had sold at Rago for $111,750 in March 2014
sold for $52,500 (est. $50,000/75,000) less than five
years later.

Of the 28 lots of Martin Brothers pottery, six failed
to sell. That is a 79% sell-through rate by lot. The
total of $772,313 was below the $837,350/1,221,550

estimate.
Of the 234 lots of early 20th-century design, 178

sold for $660,625; that is 76% sold by lot. The total,

a bit below the low estimate, was weighed down by

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Grueby rare cuerda seca 19-tile ship frieze, Experimental oxblood vase
Boston, 1910s, three tiles initialed “E.M.,” some by Hugh Robertson (1845-
impressed “Grueby Tile Boston,” each approx- 1908), Dedham Pottery,
imately 6" square. The frieze sold for $21,250 Dedham, Massachusetts,
(est. $6500/7500). It is missing one tile, and there 1896-1908, glazed stone-
are various chips and losses to the back of tiles ware, incised signature
and professionally restored breaks to two tiles. “Dedham Pottery HR,”
numbered “DP51D,”
8" x 4½", from the
collection of Robert A.
Ellison, New York City,
sold for $10,000 (est.
$4000/6000).

Gustave Baumann (1881-1971), Grand Cañón, from the Robert Martin of
first printing, Santa Fe, 1934, color woodblock print on Martin Brothers
Zanders paper, pencil signed, titled, and numbered with created this large
hand-in-heart chop mark, with artist’s note in pencil double-sided face
on the lower edge “should have been no. 1” and hand- jug, England, 1900,
in-heart watermark to paper, image 12¾" square, sheet salt-glazed stoneware,
16⅜" x 14⅜", sold for $27,500 (est. $7000/10,000). Profes- incised “1-1900 R.W.
sionally restored, it has the original paper artist’s label on Martin + Bros. London + Southall,”
the back of the mat. 8¾" x 7" x 7½", ex-Richard Wright.
It sold for $8125 (est. $6000/8000). At
the poor performance of Arts and Crafts furniture. Just Skinner on October 24, 2009, it had
three of the nine lots of furniture offered sold, and none sold for $11,258.
of the seven contemporary carpets, some in the Arts and
Crafts style, found buyers. There was also weakness in Morning Vase and Shadow by Betty
the market for French art glass. Woodman (1930-2018), New York, circa
1985, glazed earthenware, each element with
Some high prices were paid for American Arts and impressed signature. The vase measures
Crafts pottery. A Newcomb pottery vase decorated 23¾" x 22½" x 10", and the shadow is 27" x
by Harriet Joor in 1904 that Rago called the prettiest 26" x 2". The shadow has been profession-
piece of Newcomb he had seen sold for $21,250 (est. ally restored. Morning Vase and Shadow
$15,000/20,000). A Fulper lamp, 14½" high, sold for sold for $27,500 (est. $15,000/20,000).
$9375 (est. $2000/3000), but two other Fulper lamps
failed to sell. metal cabinet sold for $35,000 (est. $25,000/35,000). $10,000/15,000), and a collection of eight narrow
Some strong prices were paid for George Nakashima
The top lot in the early 20th-century design catalog panels of various sizes from The Birth of Aphrodite sold
was Gustave Baumann’s color woodblock print Grand tables and case pieces. A Conoid dining table with a
Cañón, 12¾" square, printed in Santa Fe in 1934. It 43" x 76½" top sold for $30,000. Another Conoid for $11,875 (est. $4000/6000).
sold on the phone for $27,500 (est. $7000/10,000). table offered at the end of the sale, its top 29" x 70",
estimated at $40,000/60,000, failed to sell. The high Of the 263 lots of modern design, 221 sold, for a
A group of about 30 bidders arrived for the studio estimate deterred bidding. A Mira Nakashima Conoid
ceramics sale. The first lot, Betty Woodman’s Divided dining table, 28½" x 96", sold on Artsy for $23,750 total of 84% sold by lot. The sale total of $1,921,625,
Aegean Pillow pitcher, made in New York in 1985, sold (est. $9000/12,000). which was between the estimates, reflects the fact that a
for $56,250 (est. $12,500/17,500). It is a record for the good many collectors and designers support sustainable
form but not for Woodman. Pierre Jeanneret teak chairs made for the
administrative buildings in Chandigarh, India, sold furnishings. Why cut down more trees or pollute the
Not even pottery by Peter Voulkos brought more than well. Eight V-leg armchairs sold for $23,750 (est.
Woodman’s work. The top lot by Voulkos was an early $15,000/20,000), and eight V-leg side chairs sold for atmosphere with more manufacturing when the
bottle made in California in 1957 that sold for $12,500 $27,500 (est. $12,000/16,000). A desk and armchair
(est. $12,000/16,000). A large bowl by English potter from the same commission went for $16,250 (est. originals are available at auction, often at reasonable
Lucie Rie sold for $13,750. Of the 158 lots offered of $5500/7500). A Wendell Castle dictionary stand sold
studio ceramics, 121 sold for a total of $482,750. for $25,000 (est. $15,000/20,000). prices, and why buy reproductions when you can have

On Sunday, the day for modern design and glass, a The most spirited bidding was for decorative Bon the originals?
set of ten George Nakashima Conoid chairs sold for Art fiber tapestry wall hangings after designs by
$50,000 (est. $22,500/27,500). Some works by Phillip Alexander Calder. Ones with bright primary colors and The weekend ended with 105 lots of contemporary
Lloyd Powell from the estate of Ruth Elkins Hirschberg black sold for $16,250 (est. $4000/6000), $18,750 (est.
sold over estimates, and some did not sell. A hanging $6000/8000), and $20,000 (est. $4000/6000). glass, of which 79 sold (75%) for a total of $547,750,
drop-front Powell cabinet, 1960s, chip carved and reflecting a softer market than expected. The total was
painted, sold for $30,000, well above its estimate, Fragments of verre églomisé panels from two of the swelled by the sale of some appealing Dan Dailey
but then a large Powell cabinet failed to sell. A pair four murals designed by Jean Dupas for the grand salon lighting. A female figural floor lamp sold for $40,000
of Powell armchairs sold for $27,500, and a single of the ocean liner S.S. Normandie sold well. The Birth (est. $35,000/45,000). It and other works by Dailey
armchair sold for $13,750, all above estimates. of Aphrodite and The Rape of Europa were executed in came from the artist’s personal archive, owned for
gold and silver églomisé. At the preview the fragments
A pair of Paul Evans armchairs from the same estate were hung on the wall over contemporary furniture years by the artist’s mother, Barbara Tarleton. A portion
sold for $20,000 (est. $9000/14,000).APaul Evans Loop to good advantage, and they all found buyers. Three of the proceeds will benefit Tarleton Castle Arts, a
cabinet, 29½" x 30" x 16½", from the same consignor panels from The Rape of Europa sold for $22,500 nonprofit art center. A large spinning sculpture by
sold for $18,750 (est. $17,500/22,500). Evans designs (est. $15,000/20,000), and another four from the same Jon Kuhn made in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
manufactured by Directional sold well. A sculptured mural sold for $20,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). Two in 2006 sold for $21,500 (est. $8000/12,000). Little
from The Birth of Aphrodite went for $11,250 (est.
Arcus by Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychova,

an 8¾" high hot pink glass piece, sold for $20,000 (est.

$10,000/15,000).
“I would give the sale a B,” said David Rago after

the sale.
For more information, call (609) 397-9374 or visit

the website (www.ragoarts.com).

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François-Raoul Larche Phillip Lloyd Powell (1919-2008), wall-hanging drop-front
(1860-1912), figural Art cabinet, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1960s, chip-carved and
Nouveau lamp modeled polychrome wood, unmarked, 15½" x 41¾" x 13", sold for
after American actress $30,000 (est. $14,000/19,000).
and dancer Loïe
Fuller, 17½" x 9" x Vase by Jean Dunand (1877-1942), 6¾" tall x 9½"
10", with a Siot foundry diameter, France, 1920s, lacquered copper dinan-
stamp, France, and the number derie and coquille d’oeuf (eggshell inlay), with
“705,” circa 1901, gilt enameled signature to base, “Jean Dunand 3776
bronze, with two sock- Made In France,” and a Sotheby’s Andy Warhol
ets, sold for $18,750 (est. sale label to the liner. The vase sold for $43,750
$10,000/15,000). (est. $35,000/45,000). At Sotheby’s sale of the Andy
Warhol collection in April 1988, it had sold for
Scroddled bisque vessel by $35,200.
George Ohr (1857-1918) of
Biloxi, Mississippi, 1906, with Female figural floor lamp by Dan Dailey (b. 1947),
script signature and date “06,” from an edition of six, Kensington, New Hamp-
4¼" x 5¼" x 5", sold for $11,250 shire, 1999, cast and patinated bronze, anodized
(est. $9000/12,000). aluminum, Vitrolite, and blown glass, with single
sockets, an impressed signature to the foot, 67" x
Saturday Evening Girls large 44" x 22", sold for $40,000 (est. $35,000/45,000).
vase with landscape by Edith Each of the cast bronze lamps in the edition
Brown, Boston, 1922, signed features a distinctive blown-glass shade, applied
gold-plated brass forms, and a Vitrolite mosaic
and dated, 13" x 8", sold for base. Despite being part of an edition, each lamp
$10,625 (est. $5000/7500). It is unique.
has a drill hole on the base
and a chip to the inner rim
glazed over in the making.

Lucie Rie
(English, 1902-
1995), large knitted
bowl, circa 1976, glazed
and incised stoneware, with
chop mark, 5¼" x 12" x 13",
ex-Garth Clark Gallery, New York,
1994, with copy of original invoice,
sold for $13,750 (est. $10,000/15,000).

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-
1973), large charger, Corrida,
Madoura Pottery, France,
1953, glazed and enameled
earthenware, oxidized
paraffin, 17" diameter,
sold for $25,000 (est.
$6000/8000). There
were very few copies of
this charger produced.

Rare skyscraper cocktail shaker by
Louis W. Rice (1872-1933), 1920-22,
electroplated nickel silver, stamped
“Skyscraper / Des. Pat. Pending /
Apollo E.P.N.S. / Made By Bernard
Rice’s Sons, Inc / 5257,” 11" x 7¼" x
4¼". The catalog points out that the
“stepped architectural form reflects
an embrace of Modernism, influenced
by skyscrapers that were beginning to
blanket the New York City skyline,”
and notes that the shaker is “complete
with a handle and spout that resemble
smokestacks.” It sold for $13,750 (est.
$5000/7500).

Divided Aegean Pillow pitcher by Betty
Woodman (1930-2018), New York, 1985,
glazed earthenware, impressed signature
near base, 21" x 25" x 18½", with a copy
of the original invoice, sold for $56,250 (est.
$12,500/17,500). It is a record for the form.
It was exhibited at Mary Heilmann, Janice
Tchalenko, Betty Woodman at Blum Helman
Gallery, New York City, 1985.

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Jean Dupas (1882-1964), three verre églomisé panels, approx- Chandelier by Dan Dailey, Birds in Flight, Pair of owl sconces by
imately 48" x 31" each, two contiguous, from The Rape of from the “Waterford” series, Ireland, 1999, Dan Dailey, made in
Europa, a mural from the grand salon of the S.S. Normandie, diamond-cut, sandblasted, and acid-polished Kensington, New Hamp-
France, circa 1934, plate glass, paint, gold, silver, and palladium crystal, chromed metal, and glass details, 40" x shire, 2010. Of fabricated
leaf, one framed, unmarked. From a New York private collec- 36" x 30", sold for $27,500 (est. $25,000/35,000). and patinated copper, gold-
tion, the panels sold for $22,500 (est. $15,000/20,000). This chandelier and several other works by plated brass and bronze, and blown and
Dailey (not shown), including bird sconces and lamp-worked glass, with impressed artist
Dale Chihuly (b. 1941), assembled a vase, were crafted at the Waterford Crystal signature to each, the 10½" x 7" x 9" sconces
five-piece Tabac basket set, one factory in Ireland as part of a project aimed at sold for $15,000 (est. $15,000/20,000).
with a blanket shard, Providence, introducing Waterford designers to the influ- According to the catalog, the sconces “were
Rhode Island, 1980, blown glass, ence and inspiration of American artists. Dailey specially made for an exhibition at the Lake
with etched signature and and six other American artists worked inde- Placid Center for the Arts and are a response
date to two elements pendently to design pieces for the firm. to the sylvan styles Dailey observed during
“Chihuly 1980,” the visits to a museum in the Adirondacks region
largest item 3½" x Phillip Lloyd Powell, of New York state. Dailey imagined the owls
14½", $11,250 (est. pair of lounge chairs, on a front porch of a lakeside cabin, or over
$4000/6000). New Hope, Pennsyl- the mantel of a rustic fireplace.”
vania, 1960s, sculpted
walnut, webbing, and
upholstery, unmarked,
32" x 30" x 32",
sold for $27,500 (est.
$15,000/20,000).

Star, after Alexander Calder, Bon Art wall-hanging tapestry, Conoid dining table by George Nakashima
56" x 84½", made in Guatemala, 1975, maguey fiber, with (1905-1990), Nakashima Studio, New Hope,
woven signature and date “Calder 75,” number “34/100,” Pennsylvania, 1965, single-slab figured walnut
copyright symbol, and cloth manufacturer’s label, $20,000 top and rosewood, unmarked, 29½" x 76½"
(est. $4000/6000). x 43", sold with copies of the original invoice
and drawing, $30,000 (est. $10,000/15,000).
Shiro Kuramata (1934-1991),
Side One chest of drawers Pierre
(No. 224), made by Cappellini Jeanneret (1896-
in Italy, 1992, ebonized ash, 1967), eight V-leg armchairs
laminate, and steel, on cast- from the Chandigarh administrative build-
ers, unmarked, 67½" x 24" ings, 1950s, teak, upholstery, and cane, with hand-
x 19½", sold for $12,500 (est. painted letters to one, approximately 31½" x 19½" x 20" each,
$8000/10,000). sold for $23,750 (est. $15,000/20,000). They have been refinished and re-caned
with new upholstery. The proportions and profiles vary slightly, as these chairs are handmade.

Pedro Friedeberg (b. 1936), Hand George Nakashima set of ten Conoid chairs, Nakashima Studio, New Hope,
chair, Mexico, mid-20th century, Pennsylvania, 1975, walnut and hickory, each chair signed with the client
carved Mexican mahogany, carved name to the underside, “H & G Interiors,” 35½" x 20¾" x 20", sold with
signature, 36½" x 21" x 22", sold copies of original invoice and delivery slip, $50,000 (est. $22,500/27,500).
for $12,500 (est. $7000/9000).
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Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia

Fishersville Enjoys a Record Day

by Walter C. Newman

The 65th edition of the Shenandoah Antiques
Expo is now in the books. Known commonly
by its place name, “Fishersville,” the event was
held October 11 and 12, 2019, at the Augusta County
Expoland complex in Fishersville, Virginia. This
installment marked the first for a newly configured
Heritage Promotions, the event manager and promoter
since the show’s inception. Heritage Promotions is
now co-owned by Ray and Martha Stokes, along
with their daughter, Lesley Bartram. She has been
involved with the business since her college days but
has now accepted a more hands-on management and
promotions role.

The Fishersville show enjoys
a long and successful history.

Speaking by phone following the show, Bartram Charles Kirchner of Fisher Hollow Antiques,
acknowledged that while she is familiar with virtually
every aspect of the event, she is still involved in a Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, shared booth space with
learning process. She did confirm that the show’s
two-day, Friday/Saturday format is now set in stone. Mike Gallant. There was considerable discussion as
She further allowed that there will be no immediate
changes in the show but hinted that she has a few ideas to who had the better bowl in that booth. Kirchner’s
that may be developed in the near future. offering was this 23" diameter red-washed example
with a low pedestal base. It was tagged $1250.
The Fishersville show enjoys a long and successful
history. It has cultivated a loyal following of exhibitors There is no doubt about what you can expect to find
and patrons. The show is very much a destination from Mike Gallant of Hometown Antiques, Bangor,
event, with dealers and patrons marking it as a regular Maine. Gallant proudly flew a banner advertising
stop in spring and fall. antiques from his home state. The large box shown here

This most recent show continued that long run of is grain-painted in a burl pattern. It was tagged $195.
success. In fact, Ray Stokes commented via e-mail
that the show experienced its best-ever first-day gate The richly decorated “gabled” dome-top box was $225,
and that attendance continued strong on Saturday.
The Fishersville show has had a history of disruptive and the geometrically patterned red-washed box was
weather-related weekends, but this installment enjoyed
two days of delightful early autumn sunshine. The $295. The large wooden bowl was priced at $750.
crowd was certainly large, and many dealers remarked
to that effect. Many commented that they were having
their best first-day sales.

One question that seems to be in the back of
everyone’s mind these days relates to who is attending
shows and if they are buying. The underlying question
is “Are there younger buyers out there?” Insofar as this
edition of the Fishersville show is concerned, the answer
is “yes.” The age mix was noticeable. Younger couples
and families were in abundance, and many were seen
leaving with purchases of traditional antiques and what
might be called “repurposed antique design elements,”
such as shutters, corbels, or industrial remnants.

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The life of Edgar Allan The red-washed blanket chest from New England This mid-19th-century diminutive one-piece North
Poe was short, but his features a deep well above two drawers and is raised
name always sparks on low bracket feet. The chest was priced at $425. The Carolina cupboard is banded and ready for loading.
interest. These two cutting board was marked $165, and the brown-glazed It sold within the first hour on the first day of the
Poe-related items were pitcher was $75. These items were offered by Ann Myers Fishersville show. The cupboard is of simple box
probably created as and Marie Widener of Carolina Backroads Antiques, construction. The interior is fitted with shelves, two
souvenirs. Each consists Greenwood, South Carolina. with vertical partitions. The piece may have been used
of an image printed in in a general store or warehouse office. The cupboard
gold on fabric and fitted was offered by Trudy Hinton of Pioneer Antiques,
within a recessed oval Halifax, Virginia. When the show opened, the
in a silver-plated frame.
The familiar image of Poe cupboard was tagged $850.
himself is 3¼" x 3" overall.
The second image, 2½" x 3½"
overall, is most likely
the so-called “Poe
Cottage” in the Bronx,
New York City. These
interesting pieces were
offered for $350 each
by Robert and Deanna
Taylor of Aylett,
Virginia.

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Joe and Pat Johnston are from Saint Stephens Church, The die-cast HO-gauge trolley car, Mike Brotherwood came to Fishersville with a boatload of
Virginia. The Johnstons trade as Woodlawn-Sandy manufactured by Pennsylvania Scale Models, outboard motors. Brotherwood is from St. Marys, Ohio, and was
Antiques in the Williamsburg (Virginia) Antique Mall. Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was designed so on the road selling a relative’s collection of fishing-related items.
Pat said she had to get rid of some of the baskets that she that it could be run on a traditional electric Each of the three Evinrude motors in the center of the picture
has been accumulating. Apparently, the baskets shown train track, or with a simple alteration it was priced at between $80 and $110. The Mercury Thunderbolt
here only scratch the surface of her inventory. They could be converted to be powered by an on the far left was tagged $120, and the Pioneer electric trolling
represent all ages, shapes, and sizes. The prices ranged overhead wire. The trolley pole is missing motor at the far right was marked $80.
from $50 to $100. from this car, but it was offered in its original
box. The car was tagged $75 by Jim and
Linda Roth of Quakertown Heirlooms,
Quakertown, Pennsylvania.

All of the lithographed tin advertising one could possibly want

was available from Debbie Field of Aardvark to Zebra Estate

Sales, Raleigh, North Carolina. The prices of the colorful tins
creating this wall of coffee, tea, tobacco, and spice containers
ranged from $95 to $150.

Food safes are always a steady seller at the Fishersville Cynthia Berrier of Queenie’s Junktique,
show. The size and form is extremely popular with
anyone looking for a storage piece with a bit of history. Lewistown, Pennsylvania, is a regular
This example offered by Terry Daniels of Antiques exhibitor in the Fishersville infield. The
on North Main, Farmville, Virginia, is constructed of 1950s wooden pull toy, “Butch,” was priced
walnut and was once painted green. It now displays a at $8; the flour/grain scoops were $18 each;
mustard surface. It was tagged $650 and sold early on and the Dobbs hatbox was offered at $28.
Friday. The wooden stave bucket was priced at $55, and The wooden stools were tagged $20, $25,
the splint basket was $100.
and $85 by size.

Glenn Richardson is from Greensboro, These barred doors, complete with the original barrel
North Carolina, and trades under
the name Surface Is Me. This early bolt latch and hasp, are probably not from a jail cell.
19th-century drop-leaf table is all about
surface. The table is from Isle of Wight They are more likely from a storage room in a barn,
County, Virginia, and is constructed
entirely of yellow pine. It retains its stable, or general store. The interesting doors were in
original undisturbed coat of green-blue
paint and is raised on finely tapered the booth of Bob Mills of Bridgewater, Virginia, and
square-section legs. The table was priced
at $1200. The stoneware crock was were priced at a very reasonable $215. The walnut
marked $795. The glazed poultry waterer
was tagged $785; it is undamaged but is stepback cupboard with a nicely shaped skirt is missing
missing its underpan.

its cornice. The cupboard was tagged $1350. The pair of

snowshoes was priced at $78.

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Marlene Roeder, It is always difficult to ignore
a Pennsylvania a circus, even if it is a tiny
dealer who set up one. John Cooper of Antiques
in the Fishersville & Folk Art at Wilmington,
infield, used her Wake Forest, North Carolina,
space to display displayed this little one that
an assortment could not be passed up.
of salvaged The circa 1903 circus was
architectural assembled from several
elements. The fence Schoenhut Co. sets and was
gate sections were arranged under one of the
priced at $80 each. Humpty Dumpty Circus big
The large vertical top displays. Consisting of
piece is the grate for more than 40 pieces, including
a basement window a trapeze artist, ringmaster,
opening; it was clown, polar bear, and
tagged $175. elephant, it was $2800.

This very nice early 19th-century bucket bench is tall but with The kettle table offered by Charles and Judy
Warren of Stonecrop Antiques, Mt. Crawford,
only one shelf surface. It features through-tenon construction. Virginia, has a unique reeded pattern on all four
sides of the apron and the entire length of the
The bench was $1250 from Barbara and Brett Blevins of tapered legs. It was priced at $725. The wooden
stave bucket was priced at $65, and the large
Whispering Pines Antiques, Waynesboro, Virginia. The crock on wooden bowl, $175. The circa 1875 chip-carved
slide-top box is carved in the form of two stacked
the left, by John George Schweinfurt of New Market, Virginia, books and displays a warm dry surface. It was
priced at $280. Sadly, Charlie Warren died several
was priced at $165; the peach-form redware still bank was $145; weeks after this show concluded.

and the straight-side colander, $75. The interesting tapered
perforated stoneware piece is a coffeepot from the early 19th
century. It would have been fitted with a tin spout and handle. It
was priced at $275.

Some M.A.D. readers may have
seen this wooden printer’s block
before. It was one of several
such blocks that were shown in
the October 2018 issue (p. 25-A)
in our coverage of the Milford
(New Hampshire) Antiques
Show. The blocks were used to
produce promotional materials
for a monumental clock created
by Stephen D. Engle of Hazelton,
Pennsylvania. When Engle’s
clock was completed in 1878, it
was dubbed the “8th Wonder of
the World” by its promoters. The
mechanical clock stood 11' tall and
featured 48 moving figures. It was
taken on tour on the East Coast.
This block has been separated
from the others and was found
with John R. Joiner Antiques,
Newnan, Georgia. The interesting
piece of horological history was
tagged $400. The dealer displayed
a clipping from the October 2018
M.A.D. alongside the block.

The booth of Christopher and Bernadette Evans of Waynesboro,
Virginia, is always stocked with interesting and colorful
Americana and folk art. Chris stated that the watermelon
painted on a beveled board was perhaps his favorite item in the
booth. It was priced at $765. The wool rug, mounted on board,
was marked $1650. The fireback painted with a folky farm scene,
likely from Pennsylvania, was priced at $1450.

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Rick Fleshman of New Market,
Maryland, stated that this circa
1820 walnut stepback cupboard
was fresh from a Maryland estate.
The upper section of the two-piece
cupboard features paneled blind
doors and retains its original cove-
molded cornice. The base features
exposed dovetail construction and
is fitted with fielded-panel doors.
The cupboard was priced at $1950.

John Billiard of the Primitive Peddler, Eynon, Pennsylvania,
said that he is a longtime M.A.D. subscriber and regularly reads
it cover to cover, adding that “you just learn so much from
every issue.” Among the primitives offered in his booth were a
yellow slip-decorated redware dish with a coggled edge, $185;
a wrought-iron long-handle fork, $39; and a nine-drawer spice
cabinet, $119. The slide-top extract box was $39; the carved
wooden spoon, $39; the two butter paddles were $25 each; and
the two three-gallon crocks, $110 (left) and $49 (right).

Linda Rubley of Limington,
Maine, specializes in rustic
Americana. It took Rubley
until midafternoon on Friday to
organize her space. She has had
the same booth location for years,
and her regular customers come
directly to her spot. She stated that
she was swamped from the time
the doors opened. Rubley offered
a game board for $135; a wicker
creel for $68; a fish-form food
mold for $32; and a “Served Ice
Cold” sign for $55. The wooden
rocking horse was marked $395;
the two croquet stakes were $75;
and the foot warmer was $85.

Mark Amis and Kathy
Vance of Greenville,
Virginia, are longtime
exhibitors at Fishersville.
The two-over-three-drawer
chest is from Madison
County, North Carolina.
All of the drawers are
dovetailed and cockbeaded.
The bracket feet feature
prominent spurs on all
three exposed sides. The
chest of drawers was
marked $650. The late
17th- to early 18th-century
Westerwald stoneware
barrel is in excellent
condition, although it
is missing its spout and
stopper. Its price was
$3000. The tall tankard
at the left, fitted with an
ornamental bell finial lid
(not shown), was tagged
$3500.

Kay and Bill Puchstein of West Palm Beach, Florida, offered this
diminutive Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, cupboard in walnut.
The cupboard features two candle drawers; the upper one takes up
one-third of the pie shelf. The upper case features a single nine-pane
door; the lower case has a divided fielded-panel door. The cupboard
is raised on turned feet. The price was $1950. Inside the cupboard
are 36 pieces of Gaudy Welsh porcelain, circa 1860, priced at $595.
The circa 1840 sugar chest from Kentucky was priced at $1700.

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Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut

Fine Art at Shannon’s

by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Photos courtesy Shannon’s

Twice-yearly art auctions at Shannon’s Pointers on the Hunt by Louisiana-born artist Percival
Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford,
Connecticut, bring out fine artworks Leonard Rosseau (1859-1937), signed and dated 1927,
that result in a full house for each sale. The
October 24, 2019, sale was no exception. sold for $100,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The 23" x 32¼"
oil on canvas features four pointers in the field. Catalog
The 271-lot event drew 500 bids on notes indicate that the painting is rare for the number of
20-some phones, on site, and online.
Around 100 consignors participated, and pointers depicted and that its size and complexity suggest
the gallery attracted 50 or so bidders.
Ninety-one percent of the buyers were that it was intended for an exhibition or for an important
collectors, and much of the artwork that
crossed the block came from collections. commission. It had been in a private Portville, New York,
The sale totaled $2.4 million, with 77% of
the lots sold. collection since 1930, and it went to another collection.

The top-selling lot was Pointers on the Rosseau, born on a plantation that was destroyed by
Hunt by Louisiana-born artist Percival
Leonard Rosseau, signed and dated the Union army, was rescued with his sister by a slave
1927. The 23" x 32¼" oil on canvas sold
with buyer’s premium for $100,000 (est. and raised in Kentucky. He entered business and was
$80,000/120,000). sufficiently successful at it to retire at 35 to study painting
in Paris. At the outbreak of World War I he returned
The second-highest-selling lot was the to America and settled in Lyme, Connecticut. An avid
catalog cover lot, The Flower Girl, a 30" sportsman, Rosseau hunted in Denton, North Carolina.
x 22" oil on canvas by John George Brown Percy Rockefeller became his most important patron
(1831-1913), signed and dated 1878. It
sold for $87,500 (est. $70,000/100,000). and built him a house, studio, and kennels at his Over-
hills Club in North Carolina. It is thought that Rosseau
Shannon’s next live auction is April 23 in painted Pointers on the Hunt at Overhills.
the Milford gallery.
This oil on masonite scene, Over the
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“Grandma” Moses (1860-1961) was

signed “Moses” and dated October 1960.

It sold for $80,000 (est. $90,000/120,000).

The painting, which depicts a horse-
drawn sledge filled with children in a
wintry country setting, descended in

the Moses family to the artist’s grand-
son Carl Moses and bears an old label
indicating that Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moses
had lent the picture at some point to
an unidentified entity. It then passed to
Hammer Galleries, and then it sold at

Sotheby’s, New York, twice, in 1993 and

again in 2015. It came most recently from

a Palm Beach, Florida, collection.

Iowa-born artist Abastenia St. Léger Eberle (1878-1942) Winter in Bucks County, this 25" x 30" oil on canvas by Pennsylva-
arrived in New York in 1899 to study at the Art Students nia and Cape Ann plein-air artist Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951),
League, where she created small bronzes based on the brought $81,250 (est. $40,000/60,000). The Illinois-born artist was
lives of immigrants on the Lower East Side. The 1910
bronze Windy Doorstep (right) encapsulates women’s invited in 1917 to exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
work and issues of the day. It brought $68,750 (est.
$50,000/75,000). The 14" high figure is signed “A.S.L. and she exhibited with The Philadelphia Ten, a.k.a. The Ten, from 1922
Eberle” and retains the foundry mark “S. Klaber and
Co., Founders, NY.” There were about 20 editions cast, to 1935.
and the work has had an extensive exhibition history.
This piece came from the same collection as the next
lot (above), Portrait of a Young Lady, 36" x 22", by
Russian-born American artist Ivan Gregorewitch
Olinsky (1878-1962). The portrait includes the figure
Windy Doorstep. The painting sold for $21,250 (est.
$10,000/15,000). The consignor had hoped the
two lots would remain together, and they did.
They both went to another collector.

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By Jane Peterson (1876-1965),
this watercolor and gouache view,
Venice, with interesting flat blocks
of color, is 17½" x 17½", and it sold
for $42,500 (est. $20,000/30,000).
Peterson made a number of grand
tours, spending much time in Paris.
She also studied with British artist
Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) in
Venice and London. This picture
had sold previously at Shannon’s
in 2005 to the Illinois collector who
consigned it.

This Cubist oil on canvas, 25½" x 32¼", by the Polish-born
French artist Henri Hayden (1883-1970), Village Scene, is signed

“Hayden.” From a New York collection, the deeply colorful work

sold for $52,500 (est. $10,000/15,000).

This watercolor, View over Soho, February Morning in New Hampshire, this 25" x 30" oil on
Lower Manhattan, 1977-1978, by canvas by Frederick John Mulhaupt (1871-1938), sold for $32,500
Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924), 29½" x (est. $20,000/30,000). The painting came from a Gloucester, Mas-
41", is signed and dated 1977. The sachusetts, estate to Kaminski Auctions in 2013 and then through
painting spiked energetic bidding Vose Galleries to a Boston collection.
from about a dozen bidders and
sold for $32,500 (est. $3000/5000).
It retains labels from the Brooklyn
Museum and the Allan Frumkin
Gallery.

The picture was of interest for
several reasons. After a 1974 visit
to the Canyon de Chelly in Arizona,
Pearlstein began to work on large
landscapes of ruins in his oeuvre
and included this contemporary
view of Manhattan with the twin
World Trade Center towers and
the Statue of Liberty in the mist.
Shannon’s catalog includes this
quote from the cataloging of a
print of this view by the Eskenazi Museum of Art in Indiana: “Although best known for his nudes in studio
interiors, Pearlstein began a series of large-scale landscapes in 1974 during a visit to the Canyon de Chelly.
While he envisioned this body of work as a meditation on ruins, it included this contemporary view of Man-
hattan. Pearlstein explained that it was inspired by Joseph Pennell’s sepia-colored WWI poster showing an
apocalyptic bombing of New York City. To produce his image, Pearlstein taped a grid on the window of his
friends’ Soho apartment and spent every Sunday for several months painstakingly recording the vista. The
scene—which he described as a ‘pre-ruin’—is eerily prophetic with the shadowy World Trade Center towers
visible in the background.”

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This view of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, off the coast of
Maine, by Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) brought $68,750
(est. $30,000/50,000). The 15" x 32" oil on canvas came from a New

Jersey collection. In the mid-1870s Bricher began to concentrate on
marine paintings. Grand Manan was a favorite subject.

Two paintings by Manila-born Philippine artist Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (1892-1972) sold.
Bathing (left), a 1957 oil on canvas, 28" x 22¼", is signed and dated and brought $50,000 (est.
$40,000/60,000). The related 20" x 16" oil on canvas Bathing in the River is signed and dated 1951,
and it sold for $57,500 (est. $30,000/50,000). Both had been sold at Bonhams, San Francisco, on May
22, 2007, into the same Virginia collection. This time both went to the same collection and are likely
headed to the Philippines.

The cover lot, The Flower Girl, 30" x 22", oil on
canvas, by British-born New York artist John
George Brown (1831-1913) is signed and dated
1878. It is remarkable for its richness of detail in
the flowers, the subject, and her clothing. Cata-
log notes suggest that the sitter was possibly the
daughter of a wealthy family dressed as a flower
seller. It sold for $87,500 (est. $70,000/100,000).
The picture entered a New York collection
around 1910, passed to another collection
around 1980, and sold at Sotheby’s into another
collection in 2001.

I’ll Write Whenever I Can, Lake Rudolf by This 20" x 25" oil on canvas, Valley The Well at the End of the World by Richard Anuszkiewicz (b.
American photographer Peter Beard (b. 1938), 1930), 50" x 45", acrylic on canvas, is dated 1961, and it sold for
who spent many years in Africa, brought Stream in Winter, by Chicago-born $45,000 (est. $40,000/60,000). The painting illustrates the artist’s
$35,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). The toned artist George Gardner Symons focus on the effects of various high-intensity colors on the same
gelatin silver print with applied snakeskin is (1863-1930) sold for $32,500 geometric configurations. It came from the collection of art his-
inscribed upper left, “Greetings from Koobu (est. $15,000/25,000). The picture torian, curator, and author Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., and it was
Fora (opposite North Island) / Lake Rudolf exhibited at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts;
1965 Kenya N.F.D. / Population dynamics sur- descended in the family to the the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; and
vey for the Kenya Game Dept. / For Eyelids of the Francis Frost Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island.
Morning / The mingled destinies of crocodylus artist’s granddaughter and then
and men.” The bottom is inscribed “Salaams from James Snidle Fine Arts, By Frederick John Mulhaupt (1871-1938), this 25" x 30" oil
from P.B.” and “I’ll write whenever I can! Sin- California, to a private collection. on canvas, Evening Glow, Gloucester Harbor, realized $42,500
cerely, Peter Beard, Box 4191 Nairobi.” The Symons was one of the earliest (est. $30,000/50,000). Born in Rock Port, Missouri, the artist
photograph sold into a Los Angeles collection American artists to visit California trained in Chicago and New York and established himself in
from The Time is Always Now Gallery, New and spent much time there, and he New York City. He also worked in Paris, and then began visit-
York City, in December 1999 and was accom- also made trips to the St. Ives art ing Gloucester, Massachusetts, the subject of this painting. He
panied by a copy of the bill of sale. colony in Cornwall, England. settled permanently in Gloucester in 1922. The painting was
exhibited in 1925 at the Allied Artists of America 13th annual
98 Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 exhibit. It retains a Vose Galleries, Boston, label, and
it had been sold into Boston collection at Skinner in
February 2013.

FFEEAATTUURREE

Antique Jewelry & Gemology

Eglin Collection Buoys Jewelry Auction

by Mary Ann Brown
Photos courtesy Freeman’s

Freeman’s November 5, 2019, auction of jewelry and watches began with a group of The top lot of the sale was this Cartier diamond
mostly antiques that brought solid prices and ended with the sale of a marquise-cut
diamond ring that brought the top price of the auction. solitaire, with a marquise-shaped diamond
Virginia Salem, Freeman’s vice president, head of jewelry and watches, said, “For this weighing 4.08 carats, flanked by straight
particular sale, we had many individual clients consigning five to ten pieces.” Presale press baguette-cut diamonds, mounted in
focused on the collection of Stephanie “Sandy” Eglin, “a Philadelphia businesswoman platinum, from the Eglin collection.
and philanthropist whose passion for fashion and jewelry helped her to amass a widely Accompanied by a GIA report stating
varied and beautiful assortment of pieces.” Salem was pleased that Freeman’s was chosen that the 4.08-carat diamond
to sell the jewelry from the Eglin collection. She said, “It had been stored in a safe deposit is E color, with VS1 clarity,
box for years.” it sold for $81,250 (est.

“More and more clients are looking for jewelry $60,000/80,000). Salem said
that is signed. Branding is very important to buyers.”
this one was of the lots that
“everyone loved,” and that the “value is
with the stone.”

The Cartier 4.08-carat marquise-shaped diamond and platinum solitaire ring at the top This 7" long circa 1930 signed diamond and platinum strap bracelet by Cartier,
Paris, was one of the lots that Salem said “everyone loved.” Set with six pear-
was from the Eglin collection. It was accompanied by a GIA report stating that the 4.08- shaped diamonds weighing approximately 2.70 carats, 1.55 carats, 1.40 carats,
carat diamond is E color, with VS1 clarity. It was estimated at $60,000/80,000 and sold for 0.98 carat, 0.50 carat, and 0.30 carat, set within an openwork diamond setting
$81,250 (including buyer’s premium). Another diamond and platinum solitaire ring from the with circular-, baguette-, and square-cut diamonds with an estimated total
Eglin consignment was accompanied by a GIA report stating that the 6.64-carat marquise- diamond weight of 20.00 carats, it sold for $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000).
shaped diamond is L color, with VS2 clarity. The ring sold for $37,500 (est. $25,000/30,000).
The pair of 1¼" long 18k gold, diamond, and ruby earrings, set with round
Aspects of 1980s jewelry have been back in vogue, according to Freeman’s presale brilliant-cut diamonds having an estimated total diamond weight of 5.50
press. Salem confirmed this. “The Eglin collection represents styles that have recently carats, sold for $5938. The 17" long x 1" wide ruby, diamond, and 18k gold
returned to the forefront of jewelry designs.” Highlights from this period included a pair collar necklace is semiflexible and set with circular-cut rubies accented by
of 18k gold, diamond, and ruby earrings with an estimated total diamond weight of 5.50 a double row of diamond “X” stations. The estimated total diamond weight
carats that sold for $5938 (est. $3000/5000), and a matching ruby, diamond, and 18k gold of the necklace is 35.00 carats. It sold for $31,250 (est. $20,000/30,000).
collar semiflexible necklace, with an estimated total diamond weight of 35.00 carats, that
brought $31,250 (est. $20,000/30,000). Maine Antique Digest, January 2020 99

Three lots from the Eglin collection that sold separately constituted a set—an 18k gold,
emerald, ruby, and diamond pair of earrings and a choker necklace by Craig Drake, and an
unsigned emerald, ruby, and diamond bracelet. Salem explained, “The Craig Drake pieces
were all purchased at Craig Drake. The cuff bangle was not signed, which is why it was not
cataloged as Craig Drake, but it was purchased there. Everything was a set, and the owner
wore it all together.” She said it was “another style of the eighties—think Krystle on Dynasty.”
The Craig Drake earrings sold for $2000 (est. $2000/3000); the Craig Drake choker sold for
$11,700 (est. $8000/10,000); and the unsigned bracelet brought $4375 (est. $4000/6000).

When I asked what she thought about the state of the antique and vintage jewelry
market, Salem responded, “Prices were good, holding steady, I would say.”

Good examples included a circa 1900 Gautrait 18k gold and enamel bracelet with four
guilloché enamel panels that sold for $6875 (est. $5000/7000); a circa 1915 J.E. Caldwell
& Co. platinum and diamond horse brooch with a circular-cut ruby eye that brought $1625
(est. $1500/2000); a circa 1910 demantoid garnet, diamond, and platinum-topped 18k gold
ring that realized $6250 (est. $5000/7000); an Art Deco diamond, sapphire, and platinum
bracelet with approximately 3.00 carats of old-mine-cut diamonds that sold for $3625 (est.
$2000/3000); and an Art Deco diamond, sapphire, and platinum ring that brought $3500
(est. $2000/3000).

Close to the sale’s end, a circa 1930 Cartier Paris diamond and platinum strap bracelet
that was a crowd favorite realized $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000).

Salem said, “More and more clients are looking for jewelry that is signed. Branding is
very important to buyers—namely the bigger names—Tiffany and Company, Cartier,” for

example.

The most popular lots brought strong results. First up in Salem’s “everyone loved”
category was a circa 1990 Van Cleef & Arpels bead and tassel necklace that realized
$32,500 (est. $10,000/12,000). A 1970s pink sapphire ring was also a crowd favorite.
The platinum, pink sapphire, and diamond ring was accompanied by an AGL report
stating that the pink sapphire is of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) origin, with no evidence of heat. It
brought $31,250 (est. $7000/9000). A circa 1950 platinum, sapphire, and diamond strap

bracelet, with an estimated total diamond weight of 5.00 carats and an estimated total

sapphire weight of 52.00 carats, sold for $16,250 (est. $12,000/15,000). A diamond bow

brooch that Salem said she believed had been “a pair of earrings from circa 1900 that were

converted into the current bow motif” brought $27,500 (est. $20,000/30,000).
Salem said she “loved the Elizabeth Locke toggle bracelet.” The 18k gold bracelet,

composed of oval hammered links and completed by a toggle clasp with black onyx terminals,
sold for $5938 (est. $3000/5000). Locke is a contemporary designer whose jewelry “draws
on a lifelong fascination with the antique jewelry of the Etruscans, Greeks and Romans,”
according to information in the “About” section of her website (www.elizabethlocke.com).
Several Locke pieces were featured in a blog on the Freeman’s website (www.freemansauction.
com/news/work-elizabeth-locke), which described the designer’s work. “From the warmth of
high karat gold to the luster of semi-precious stones, Elizabeth Locke captures the essence of
antiquity. Techniques such as a hammered gold finish, beaded gold wire, or intaglio – Italian
for engraving – are highly reminiscent of Roman and Etruscan jewelry.”

I asked Salem what she’d like to share with readers. She said, “We are always seeking

out rare and old jewelry, namely, set in platinum with diamonds, old rubies, sapphires,

emeralds, and opals.” She mentioned in an e-mail that Freeman’s is “adding more sales in
2020 so it should be a busy year.” Visit the website (www.freemansauction.com) for these

upcoming auctions and further information, from consigning to buying.

FFEEAATTUURREE This circa 1990 platinum,
diamond, and citrine “Bird on
Circa 1900 18k gold and enamel bracelet by Gautrait, 7" long, with a Rock” pavé-set diamond bird
four guilloché enamel panels surmounted by gold overlay, joined by
ribbon links accented by small diamonds in millegrained settings, brooch is by
$6875 (est. $5000/7000). Schlumberger
for Tiffany
This 2½" long diamond and 14k & Co. The
gold leaping stag brooch with bird perched on
pavé-set old-mine-cut and a faceted citrine has
rose-cut diamonds having an an estimated total diamond
estimated total diamond weight of 2.00 carats.
weight of 4.00 carats realized Accented by 18k yellow gold
$3750 (est. $2500/3000). feet, beak, and head and
a ruby eye, the 2½" long
Circa 1915 J. E. This 20" long Van Cleef & brooch sold for $30,000
Caldwell & Co. Arpels 18k gold bead and (est. $15,000/20,000).
platinum and tassel necklace from the 1970s
diamond horse was a crowd favorite in the Virginia
brooch, 1¼" long, sale. With an estimated total Salem said
with round-cut diamond weight of 1.70 carats, the “value is
diamonds having an the 151.7 dwt. necklace sold for in the stone
approximate total $32,500 (est. $10,000/12,000). color” of this
diamond weight 1970s pink
of .65 carat and a sapphire,
circular-cut ruby diamond,
eye, $1625 (est. and platinum
$1500/2000). ring.
Centered by
a circular-
cut pink
sapphire measuring approximately 13.08
mm to 12.55 mm in diameter, with round
brilliant-cut diamonds having an estimated
total diamond weight of 2.00 carats, the ring
was accompanied by an AGL report stating
that the pink sapphire is of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
origin, with no evidence of heat. It sold for
$31,250 (est. $7000/9000).

Art Deco diamond, sapphire, and platinum bracelet set with Art Deco diamond, sapphire, and
old-mine-cut diamonds and baguette-cut sapphires, accented platinum ring, centering an oval-cut
by old-mine-cut diamond, with an estimated total diamond sapphire measuring approximately
weight of 3.00 carats, $3625 (est. $2000/3000). 8.5 mm x 6.8 mm x 4.6 mm, accented
by calibré-cut sapphires and
This 18k white gold, single-cut diamonds, $3500 (est.
platinum, diamond, and $2000/3000).
rock crystal lorgnette,
2¾" long with a 32" long
white gold chain, set
with bead-set diamonds
having an estimated total
diamond weight of 1.50
carats, sold for $2000
(est. $1200/1500).

Circa 1890 18k gold and rock crystal Circa 1910 demantoid garnet,
perfume bottle, 3" x 2½", with a diamond, and platinum-topped
textured hinged gold top accented 18k gold ring, centered by a
by colored gemstones, $1375 (est. demantoid garnet measuring
$1200/1500). approximately 9.0 mm x 6.5 mm
surrounded by old mine-cut
diamonds, $6250 (est. $5000/7000).

100 Maine Antique Digest, January 2020