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(Feature)Paperwork Loss Leads to Lawsuit
by Daniel GrantBad things sometimes happen to art—a guy puts his elbow through the canvas, an assemblage sculpture is carted out with the trash, a bronze is stolen to be melted down, things get dropped and break, a Picasso gets spray-painted—you name it. Here's a new twist. Nothing happened to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840 Part I, The Early Years
Figure 1A. Emma Jo (Thompson Bousquet) Langerak setting her watch to the Thomas Williams tall-case clock with engraved brass dial. The beveled glass in the trunk door is a later addition. Originally this clock had a solid walnut tombstone-shaped door. Photo was taken circa 1920 in Pella, Iowa, and is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Charlottesville Antiques Show on Ice
Roger D. Winter offered these two ship portraits, the S.S. Sheldrake and the S.S. Kirk Lee, both cargo steamers. Both are circa 1910. They were marked to sell as a pair for $2500. The large crab trade sign dates from the 1930's and was originally used at a Camden, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook Kicks Off Antiques Week with Strong Sale
The consensus was that this pastel portrait of a young woman wearing a lime green dress, a black lace shawl, and fashionable hair jewelry and holding a book was one of the best portraits by New Jersey artist Micah Williams (1782-1837). It sold for $59,250 (est. $20,000/30,000). The buyer was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Heavyweight Weighs In
In our April issue, Pennsylvania dealer Kelly Kinzle bought a fullpage color ad and published an essay titled “Because I Like It.” It caught many people's attention. Kinzle wrote, “As I walk through my gallery and assess my inventory, I can say unequivocally that buying, owning, and handling these pieces ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Gail Lettick, Pantry & Hearth Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut
Gail Lettick.The 1775 barn.Sawbuck table with chestnut base, original red stain, and scrub top, $3000. "It's from Howard and Priscilla Richmond's kitchen," Lettick said. The set of four bow-back Windsors, black over salmon, is $3200.An early Plymouth County, Massachusetts, six-board chest in original red paint with gouge carving on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
Cari Cucksey owns Re·Purpose, a shop in Northville, Michigan, but she is best known for her HGTV series Cash & Cari. It was her first time setting up at the show.European paintings offered by Ken Kelleher of Kelleher Fine Art, Twain Harte, California, included Le Jeu de Dames by Auguste ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rhinos and Cinnabar and Giraffes, Oh My!
When the consignor acquired Howard Sykes's property and safari collection, the collection was displayed in the property's "Game House," specially designed and built to house and display the specimens collected on a 1937 safari. Remember, the giraffe is 16'3" tall. Photo courtesy Katherine van Diest.The high lot of the sale ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Perfume Bottle Sells for $63,600
$63,600The International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) recently concluded its 24th annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida, where members from 19 countries converged to share their collective interest. The keynote address was provided by award-winning perfume bottle designer Marc Rosen, author of the recently published Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design.One of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Sold for $230,510 in a Bonhams sale of May 17 was an intricately worked cloisonné enamel and partial plique à jour bowl, roughly 7½" square and 3¾" deep. The work of Ando Jubei and dating to the Meiji period (1868-1912), the bowl with its base decoration of a swimming carp ... (Read More)
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