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(Auction)Sotheby's Various-Owners Americana Auction
Three phone bidders competed for this pair of oil on canvas portraits by Robert Feke (1707-1752) of Mr. Tench Francis (33¾" x 25¾") and his wife, Elizabeth Turbutt Francis (33½" x 26½"). Painted in Philadelphia, circa 1740, the portraits descended in the family of their daughter Anne and sold on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lancaster County Desk-and-Bookcase Tops Christie's Americana Auction
The Chippendale carved cherrywood desk-and-bookcase, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785, 92½" x 42¼" x 22 1/8", sold for $665,000 (est. $400,000/600,000) to collector Peter Wunsch in the salesroom, underbid by a collector on the phone. It came from the collection of the late Bertram and Trish Coleman of Bryn Mawr, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nutt Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
Rare Chinese export porcelain American market punch jug, early 19th century, 9" high, painted with a portrait of George Washington in an oval surrounded by a gilt band and bead border, the surround repeated on the opposite side enclosing a monogram “BH,” the gilt band repeated around the rims and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)iGavel Opens a Texas Branch
iGavel founder Lark Mason (right) and his son, Lark Mason III, at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair in January. Lark Mason III has joined the firm and will head up the iGavel branch in Texas.
iGavel (www.igavel.com) has opened a branch in New Braunfels, Texas.
Lark Mason Sr., founder of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Phone Bidders Tango for Sunlight in the Studio
Sunlight in the Studio by Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) sold for $219,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). The signed and dated (“1888”) oil on canvas measures 18 1/8" x 22 3/16" without its period frame. Sold along with this lot was a group of books and ephemera about World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), where ... (Read More)
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(Show)Metro Curates
Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, sold this equestrian cast-iron trade sign, made for the Cincinnati Stove Works company, circa 1901; the asking price was $28,500. The 36-drawer chest, possibly from a hardware store, with original ivory paint and dovetailed construction, also sold. It was tagged $18,500. The tramp art wood ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Teapot by Paul Revere Jr. Brings $233,000
Each of these Martelé silver figural ewers, marked for Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1912, in baluster form, is decorated with fluid leaves and waves. One is chased with Poseidon holding his trident and has a cast merman-form handle; the other is chased with a mermaid holding a clamshell with pearls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Wunsch Award, Now a January Tradition, Honors Arnold Lehman and Chipstone
Arnold Lehman is shown accepting the Wunsch award.
Jonathan Prown, director of Chipstone.
Peter Wunsch (left) and Christie’s John Hays.
Christie’s hosted the third annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 21, honoring Arnold L. Lehman, the retiring director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fraktur: Four Exhibitions, a Catalog, and a Conference
Drawing of a woman on horseback, circa 1775, attributed to the Sussel-Washington Artist (active 1760-85). Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 8" x 6 3/8". Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson.
Drawing of Adam and Eve, 1834-35, attributed to Samuel Gottschall (1808-1898). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8" × ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 36½" x 49½" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby’s on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (Read More)
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