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(Fragment)Metro Show Canceled for 2016
For the last four years, on the first weekend of Americana Week in New York City in January, the Art Fair Company has promoted the Metro Show (renamed this year Metro Curates) at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea. In a letter to exhibitors in mid-March, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)TV Guide (to Antiques)
The Young Collector
Librarians get asked lots of odd questions—can you help me find the red cookbook I was looking at last week, what foods float, am I divorced? (yes, seriously, all of those)—but many of them would say their favorite question comes when someone just wants a good book to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Anne and Jeff Miller Sale
This oil on canvas view of St. Joseph’s Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, mid- to late 19th century, with buildings including a church in the landscape, was bought at Northeast Auctions by Milly McGehee in 1998 for $27,600. Fifteen years later it sold for slightly less—$26,400 (est. $8000/12,000) to Lititz, Pennsylvania, dealer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pastels Rule the Day
This Northwood ice-blue stippled Strawberry ruffled bowl with a basketweave back sold for $18,000. Ice blue is among the rarest pastel colors, and this bowl further had a mix of unusual features of a basketweave back and stippled treatment. The bowl was the top-selling lot of the auction.
Northwood stippled Strawberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Texans' Clock Collection Sells in Massachusetts
Peter Sawyer took home this Joseph Nye Dunning wall clock for the second time. It has an eight-day time-only weight-driven brass movement typical of banjo-style wall clocks, but the shaped mahogany case is distinctive and especially attractive. It made $30,750. Two other rare Dunning clocks also brought strong prices.
One of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Property from the Oprah Winfrey Collections
At $45,000, The Little Mother by Hovsep Pushman was the top lot. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
Some things are simply unexplainable. The set of six rabbit placeholders, estimated at $100/200, sold at $531. Hindman photo.
Visually striking, the circa 1900 Viennese ebonized dressing table measured 28" x 27½" x 19¾" and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Joseph T. Butler
Study St. Malo #11, a delicate 10½" x 13" (sight size) oil on panel by Maurice Prendergast, circa 1907, signed lower left, had a provenance from the estate of the artist and Mrs. Charles Prendergast. It is a very fine example of the landscape panels he made in France when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Whitaker's Spring Couture Auction
Christine and Charles Whitaker hold a 19th-century embroidered linen liturgical vestment, probably Greek, which was embroidered with mythical birds, animals, and figures. Estimated at $200/400, it sold for $2040.
A highlight of the sale was a group of 18th-century stomachers and corsets. A stomacher is a decorated triangular panel that fills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)North American Decoys at Auction
The $69,000 preening scoter by Maine carver Augustus Wilson, from the last quarter of the 19th century, has carved eyes and an inlet head. The form demonstrates a crossover with folk art and highlights a growing direction in decoy collecting. Guyette & Deeter photo.
These three Mason’s Decoy Factory plaques are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Show to Be Revived
After the 2015 Philadelphia Antiques Show was canceled, Anne Hamilton and Nancy Kneeland from the volunteers and Richard Worley and Joan Johnson, the current and past chairs of the Antiques Show Advisory Committee, met to focus on the possibility of a 2016 show.
Catherine Sweeney Singer and the committee of four ... (Read More)
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