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(Auction)Neal Rolls the Dice on Rococo Revival--and Wins
Big and boisterous, this nine-piece bedroom suite (partially shown) from the Service collection is in the Renaissance style referred to as "Henry II." Altogether it's a great deal of carved oak furniture for $52,580 (est. $15,000/25,000).
Grant Oakes purchased both chandeliers and table lamps for the Service collection. Most ornate-with figures ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville: American Beauty in Its 25th Year
Now in its 25th year, the Antiques & Garden Show benefits the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, whose resident gardeners constructed the entry presentation "La Dama del Jardin" with her dramatic blooming dress. Rows of antiques dealers' displays can be seen beyond the fountain.
Veteran exhibitor Ron Lotz ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Raises Buyer's Premium
Effective February 1, Sotheby's enacted a new buyer's premium rate structure. The new rate structure will be 25% on the first $200,000 of the hammer price; 20% on the portion of the hammer price above $200,000 up to and including $3 million; and 12% on any remaining amount above $3 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh-to-Market Philadelphia Tea Table Sells for $1,895,000
The 1755-57 Potter-Crouch-Jordan family Philadelphia mahogany tea table, 29" high, top 37 3/8" inches in diameter, sold for $1,895,000 (est. $500,000/2,000,000).
A group of Sons of Liberty toasts found in the papers of William Russell (1748-1784), a schoolteacher and early member of the Sons of Liberty and a Boston Tea Party ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Art
The pilot boat Phantom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian and Continental Arts and Country Americana
Chinese huanghuali altar coffer, late 19th or early 20th century, three drawers over two bifold doors, relief carving of birds and prunus branches, pierce-carved panels, 36" high x 72" wide, minor pieced restorations, $66,000.
Ohio stoneware crock incised "July 6 1839 / L.D. Owen Ohio" above a bird and flowers within ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 Outsider Art Fair
The Super Red Hot World Peppers, 2014, graphite, crayon, ink, and marker on paper, by Gregory Blackstock was $6400 from Garde Rail Gallery, Austin, Texas.
Julian Martin's untitled pastels on paper, 15" x 11", were $1200 from Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. John Ollman brought 21 of them to the Outsider Art Fair, and ... (Read More)
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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-appliqued 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 ... (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, 161/2" high, ... (Read More)
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