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(Fragment)Chinese Clock Brings $1,270,500
An antique Chinese animated triple fusee bracket clock estimated at $500,000/750,000 sold for $1,270,500 (includes buyer’s premium) at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on May 21. It was the top lot in a sale that grossed approximately $2.5 million. The buyer was in the room but asked not to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Scranton Sale
Skinner, Inc., Killingworth, Connecticut
Hardly anyone was absent. The May 21 on-site sale of the collections of Killingworth, Connecticut, dealer Lewis Scranton packed the tents with collectors and dealers, some of whom had not been seen in the salesrooms in decades. Dealers, all of whom know and respect Scranton, an 11th-generation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portraits of Women and One Lovely Mare Star
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
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The May 21 and 22 New Orleans Auction Galleries estates sale was a banquet of furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts, but once again fine art from a major paintings collection brought the highest prices of the weekend. With over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave the Slave Pot Brings $206,800
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The absentee sale conducted by the Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) that closed on May 21 had 289 lots, but most of the bidding activity and dollars were focused on just four pots by Dave the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marklin "Amerika" Steams to a Record $271,400
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
An enthusiastic, rollicking crowd convened at Bertoia Auctions’ Toy Shoppe sale on May 20 and 21. They helped pull off, in Jeanne Bertoia’s words and in racetrack parlance, a trifecta. The $1.4 million run at the Vineland, New Jersey, auction house made it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Huge Sale from the Descendants of Artist J. Alden Weir
Boyd Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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On May 20 and 21, Boyd Auctions sold property for the descendants of J. Alden Weir in a monumental sale at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Weir (1852-1919) was an American Impressionist painter, a member of the Cos Cob art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)George Schastey, Maker of Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age
The most publicized decorative arts exhibition this season, Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened on December 15, is being held over until June 5. More than 170,000 people have seen it and will now recognize the name George Schastey as a competitor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Noel Barrett and Ron Pook Join Forces
Ron Pook (left) and Noel Barrett
Pennsylvania auctioneers Noel Barrett and Ronald Pook have announced a new collaboration. Barrett will be staging his annual fall auction of an eclectic mixture of vintage toys and other items at Pook’s facility in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, his first foray after rolling his Bucks County auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Christie’s, New York City
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Hung horizontally or vertically, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lake George Reflection was a favorite during American paintings week in May. It is a large painting, 58" x 34", and Christie’s showed it both ways as the folding frontispiece in the catalog for the May 19 sale. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two by Sargent Top Sotheby's Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s 6 p.m. American art sale on May 18 began with champagne. Collectors toasted two extraordinary paintings by John Singer Sargent—Staircase in Capri, painted in 1878, and Poppies, painted in England in the summer of 1886.
Sargent painted Poppies in a garden in the Cotswolds as ... (Read More)
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