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(Auction)Early Clocks, One Day Late: The Abbott/Guggenheim Collection
The top-selling clock, and second only overall to a bronze Hercules that sold for $2,045,000 (see below), this 1580-90 German gilt striking and automaton lion clock by Philipp Miller went to a determined phone bidder who steadily jumped bid increments until the hammer fell far above the $150,000/250,000 estimate. This ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Highlights from Americana Week in New York City
Sixteen-star American national flag, Tennessee, circa 1817, with hand-sewn double-appliquéd cotton muslin stars on a two-piece wool bunting canton, the upper section aged to a light blue color, the lower section navy in tone, with hand-sewn canton, stripes, and linen sleeve, and sleeve marked “8 ft/ American Ensign/ N.Y.B./ 1817” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Virginia Rejects Ivory Ban
Virginia Senate Bill No. 1215 was voted down 12-0 on January 26 by the Virginia Senate Committee for Courts of Justice after the bill’s sponsor, Senator Adam Ebbin, withdrew his support.
If passed, it would have been one of the country’s most restrictive ivory laws, making any person who “imports, sells, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art
Famille verte duck wine pot and cover, late 18th century, the body iron-red with green and gilt wings, the cover with a lotus finial, the handle a green stem, the beak gold, 8" long, $21,250 (est. $8000/12,000) to a bidder on the phone.
A large 18th-century famille rose pheasant, 16½" high, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art, Design, & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall
Brad Reh and Debbie Turi transformed Wallace Hall into a small boutique show with 34 dealers.
Six China trade watercolors of Chinese sampans and junks, each 14½" x 18", circa 1850, were $15,000 from Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge. The frames are contemporary.
Need to seat 16? The George III three-pedestal table, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Silver Collection of Roy and Ruth Nutt
A rare pair of American silver bottle stands, Myer Myers, New York, circa 1765, each circular with scrolling openwork fret-sawn sides, centering on a solid cartouche monogrammed “SSC,” fitted with turned wooden bases. They are marked on the back of the cartouche“Myers”in a conforming rectangle. The diameter is 5 1/8". The pair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arader Gets $3.277 Million for Fewer than 145 Lots
Seabright from Galilee, New Jersey, 1880, a 21" x 42" oil on canvas by the short-lived American artist Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886), sold to an absentee bidder for $183,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). The painting depicts Sea Bright, New Jersey, as seen from the small town of Galilee, which lies on the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Estates and Collections Contribute to Auction Success
Portraits did well in the January sale. Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838), son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl, came to Tennessee in 1817 to paint Andrew Jackson. This couple by the younger Earl sold for $24,780 (est. $6800/8400). The sitters, the Reverend Hardy Cryer and his wife, were a handsome ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Indiana Art and Something from Singapore
This landscape by Theodore Clement Steele shows his home, House of the Singing Winds, in the background. The oil on canvas brought $44,800.
Singapore Malay Culture by Cheong Soo Pieng, a mixed-media on board composition, sold online for $83,375.
Photos courtesy Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers
An oil painting by Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926), ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
The very rare New York gate-leg table in untouched condition with original butterfly hinges, old finish, and no restoration, red gum, 27¾" high, 52" wide open, 43½" deep, was from Queens County, Long Island. An identical table from the same workshop is pictured in Dean Failey’s Long Island Is My ... (Read More)
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