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(Auction)Crowded Ferrell Southern Stoneware Sale
"Phoenix/ Factory 1840" is written in fine script on the shoulder of this 191/2" stoneware jar. Master potter Thomas Chandler was employed at Phoenix in 1840 and may have turned this jar. Phoenix Factory went out of business in 1850. At $90,000, this was the sale's top lot (est. $50,000/70,000). ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show 2014
Library table and two chairs, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, New York City, 1891-93, made of primavera (similar to satinwood) and American ash with elaborate floral carving, varicolored wood, and metal micromosiac inlay; the chairs have glass ball and brass claw feet; $1,330,000 from Associated Artists. David Parker believes Samuel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$767,000 Decoy Tops Sotheby's Americana Auction
John James Audubon (1785-1851), Say's Squirrel, inscribed in pencil: "2 female 1 male April 9 '43 Female and male facing in long leaves of grass; St. Louis, MO,"watercolor, 14" x 193/4", 1831, tears, creases, and soil, sold on the phone for $137,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The proceeds went to a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Under New Ownership, the Armory Antique Show Holds Its Own
One of the first things visible to incoming shoppers was this hooked rug offered by folk art dealers Robert Snyder and Judy Wilson of Wiscasset, Maine. The semicircular circa 1930 work was $2850 and provided a graphic picture of Americana. Its eagle is surrounded by stars and stripes.
The first thing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
Emma Heather by William Pierce Stubbs (1842-1909) depicts the three-masted schooner Emma Heather, built in 1871 in Milton, Delaware, and sunk in a gale off the Delaware Breakwater in 1893. Stubbs's work and the work of so many other artists flattered and idealized its subject. She was a coal carrier! ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Miami Show
Puchstein Promotions will launch a new show in January. The Miami Antiques Extravaganza will be held January 24 through 26, 2014, at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds, located on the west side of Miami, Florida. The majority of the approximately 400 exhibitors will be inside the air-conditioned Arnold Hall and Coliseum; ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Weather Fails to Dampen Round Top Show
Gorgeous, rich greens come together in this Haitian painting from the 1970's. Fred Cain of Naples, Florida, called it Children of Paradise and priced it at $1800.
"Whoever buys it gets to figure out how to open it!" Nancy B. Cooper of Austin, Texas, said of the secret drawer in this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week
This scalloped-top Philadelphia tea table from the Eric M. Wunsch estate, probably made in the shop of Benjamin Randolph, with carving attributed to Richard Butts, brought $905,000. Christie's photo.
This eider drake decoy from the legendary McCleery collection, from a rig probably made by an unidentified maker on Monhegan Island, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Silver, Furniture, Folk Art, and Chinese Export Art Bring $10.44 Million
The silver brandywine bowl, one of only two known with the mark of Cornelius Vander Burch, New York, circa 1690, has six lobed panels and a domed center with an embossed and chased flower head. The two cast scroll handles have caryatids and beading, and the body is engraved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Bonhams
The highest Americana price of the day belonged to a carved and inlaid automaton hall clock commissioned from Tiffany & Co. and delivered in April 1901. Estimated at $40,000/60,000, it went at $100,000 to a phone bidder.
A phone bidder on the line with Madelia Ring ... (Read More)
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