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(Show)The Salon: Art + Design
Arlie Sulka of Lillian Nassau LLC, New York City, who specializes in Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, has expanded into mid-century modern furniture and design. For example, the 1966 walnut slab shelf (left) by George Nakashima holds three Tiffany Favrile pots from 1905-10 and an Edmond Lachenal piece from ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 BIFAS
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, showed work by Geoffrey Johnson (b. 1965), including Three Buildings in Gold (48" x 36"), a 2014 oil on panel that was priced at $19,500.
Back Bay, Boston, dealer Martha Richardson showed Father and Child Reading, a 14½" x 9¼" x 8¾" bronze ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Pennsylvania and Americana Auctions
Crewelwork work bag panel, “Jane Hoopes / October 13 1768,” Goshenville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 29½" x 19¾", ex-Price estate, $7500 (est. $2000/3000) to a phone bidder. A woolwork sampler that sold at Skinner in November 2006 records her parents’ names, John and Christian, and the name of the Hollis School ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chanel and the Beatles' Psychedelic Apple Boutique Score High
This Chanel black silk chiffon full-length bias-cut Chantilly lace gown from the 1930s has lace insertions in the bow and ribbon patterns, a low V back, shoulder capelet, and narrow chiffon and lace streamers attached to the sides by the hips. Lined in black silk charmeuse with a deep lace ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2014
Rookwood Uranus Tiger Eye vase, Albert Valentien, circa 1899, cranes in flight, 18½" high, several in-the-making base chips, $35,650.
Rookwood Iris glaze vase with gold-plated silver overlay at the rim, Albert Valentien, 1904, three life-size irises in bloom and two buds, the overlay engraved with a floral design, 14½" high, uncrazed, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hold an Auction and They'll Come
While calmly preening herself, this early 1900s eider hen carved by Gus Wilson became the top-priced lot of the sale at $43,200. Slotin photo.
Four Joseph Yoakum lots drew aggressive bidding from phone and on-line bidders and far exceeded estimates. He worked primarily in colored pencil with occasional pastel or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bids in Toyland
Despite some loss to the multicolored enamel paint, the 6½" x 4½" x 4¼" rare still bank of an unspecified “City Bank” building with a mansard roof and chimney opened the sale at $4740 (est. $1500/2500). Julia photo.
Ives Blakeslee painted palace still bank with light apple-green paint, $18,367.50.
“Walking Down ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three Days and 1500 Lots Later
The top lot of the entire three-day event was this 17-jewel stainless steel Rolex Oyster chronograph, model 6238, serial number 866399. It closed out at $29,900. Thomaston Place photo.
The fully detailed whalebone prisoner-of-war ship model sold for $17,250.
Not extremely old, but this has flash and style. The 20th-century carved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Delaware Antiques Show of 2014
The paint-grained corner cupboard was $35,000; the large basket on top, $850. The Dexter horse weathervane by Cushing and White, $19,000, stands on a Shaker bench, $1450. Above is a sign from a Chatham, New York, tavern, “T. Hoag’s Stage House,” with the state seal of New York. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Latin-Americana Library of W. Michael Mathes Sells for $1.2 Million
What is believed to be the first book written by a native of Mexico to be printed in Europe sold to a phone bidder for $17,500 (est. $10,000/15,000). Published in Perugia in 1579, it is Rhetorica Christiana,a manual about Mexican culture intended to instruct missionaries. The author, who also engraved ... (Read More)
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