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(Feature)Fifty Shades of Blue
Three phone bidders competed for this historical blue Staffordshire Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute plate, 10 5/8" in diameter, impressed “Clews,” one of three known examples, and in excellent condition. It sold for $21,330 (est. $4000/6000).
This 9 1/8" x 11¾" Staffordshire Baltimore platter sold on the phone for $7110 (est. $2500/3500) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed and Manuscript Americana: Maps, Memoirs, and Mug Shots
This album of 31 photographs of a whale hunt and other scenes of Inupiaq village life sold to a dealer for $18,750 (est. $2000/3000). Suzanne Rognon Bernardi and her brother, Jack Rognon, were the photographers in Wales, Alaska, in 1901-02. Pictured are two Inupiaq hunters butchering a whale.
The top lot ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Art + Design Show 2013
A.G. Rizzoli is an artist whom Bonnie Grossman of Ames Gallery, Berkeley, California, discovered in 1990. A woman came to the gallery with four color drawings and 39 assorted pieces on vellum to sell. “I bought them all,” said Grossman, and there have been numerous shows of his work in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Millersburg Glass with a Twist
The glassmaker threw it all at this purple Four Pillars vase, twisting the body, flattening the rim, and swinging it out from its original 7" length to 12". A one-of-a-kind whimsy, it sold for $1607.
An outstanding piece of Millersburg, this 11" purple Peacock at Urn tri-corner bowl combined a rare ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J. Garland Warren's Country Store Collection
This 35" x 47" sign for Armour’s pork and beans, embossed tin in a wooden frame, late 19th or early 20th century, brought $2585 (est. $600/1200).
This 58" high Royal Crown Cola sign of enameled tin, early 20th century, sold for $1058 (est. $250/500).
This 7½" x 59" wooden sign with “Oliver ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potomack Company Sale Tops $1.4 Million
The high lot of the Potomack Company sale was this carved sandstone head of a bodhisattva. The 10" high head is thought to have come from cave 17 at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, west of Beijing. More than 50,000 pieces of carved art were found in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association Antiques Show & Sale
All WADA show/sales feature an educational exhibit prominently displayed as one enters the show. At this event, Debbie and Dick Griem of Kiel, Wisconsin, shared their impressive collection of antique firefighting memorabilia. That’s Debbie standing by part of the display. We saw several showgoers stop to chat and share experiences ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Thoughts on Old Things: Four Centuries of Furnishing the Northeast
This chest of drawers from Montréal, 1780-90, butternut and white pine, was a gift of Miss Dorothy Buhler in memory of Sarah M. Gilbert; a gift of Estelle S. Frankfurter; and gift of the John Gardner Greene estate by exchange. The MFA notes that the chest’s façade in the shape ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The “Charged Up” Charger
This 15" high x 17" long standing temple kylin censer, in cast bronze with cloisonné and gilt decorations, was from a Baltimore estate. The price was an early indication that Orientalia buyers were tuned in, as one paid $50,600 for the piece.
On the very last page of the 76-page sale ... (Read More)
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(Show)Vermont’s Antiques Week: Five Shows in Four Days—The Chase Was On!
From October 3 to 6, a determined group of antiques seekers traversed the byways and highways of south-central Vermont in pursuit of antiques, preferably antiques that were fresh to the market and in as-found perfect condition with great original surfaces, priced at under the market prices. Never mind that the ... (Read More)
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