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(Fragment)Joshua Lane Named Curator of Furniture at Winterthur
Joshua W. Lane has been appointed the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, succeeding Wendy Cooper, who retired in June 2013.
Lane received his B.A. in American studies from Amherst College and his M.Phil. from Yale. He worked at the Connecticut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)H.A. Cooper to Retire From Yale
Dr. Helen Achbar Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, will retire in May.
"Helen Cooper has served the field of American art as one of its finest curators for almost forty years, leading the Yale University Art Gallery's department of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Room-size Heriz rug, red field with a blue border, 20th century, 12' x 15', good condition, fringe loss on one end, $9300.
Tella Kitchen (1902-1988), painting signed on the stretcher, "The barn I've admired for years. At Delmont Crossing. Fairfield County Ohio. Tella Kitchen 1975," oil on canvas, 20" x 24" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Bud" Hill Sale
Fifteen Mexican silver figural bowls by Jose Marmolejo, Mexico City, sold for $2750. The mid-20th-century handled bowls, each about 41/4" wide including handles, are shaped like swans. Note the gilt coating inside each.
This partial set of sterling silver by International in the Wedgwood pattern, 167 pieces, including 14 serving pieces ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Great Jewelry Jump Up
At $21,240, the sale's highest-dollar painting was The Flower Seller (overall, 651/2" x 433/4") by Gaetano Bellei. Its estimate was $20,000/40,000.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this Crawford expansion band watch on his wrist when he died in 1945 at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. The watch along with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Arms Race
Cased and engraved 28-gauge over-under Boss game gun, serial number 9019, $207,000. Julia photo.
This English Boss game gun, a 28-gauge sidelock ejector single side-by-side gun, was made as a small-bore companion piece to the over-under Boss gun and has serial number 9018. It has similar markings to the Boss over-under ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 57th Annual Fox Valley Antiques Show
Sam Scott of Denise Scott Antiques, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is shown checking the drawer of a $1675 pine stepback open-top cupboard with original paint. Redware on the lower shelf ranged from a $145 bundt pan to a $65 pie plate and an $875 loaf pan.
Spring Hill Farm Antiques, Broadhead, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wayne Holt's World
The top lot of the sale was a signed Louis Comfort Tiffany table lamp on slender arched legs. Signed on the shade and base with a "396," it sold to the phones for $15,400.
This early 19th-century painted blanket chest with lift top originated in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. It was tucked ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winterthur's Philadelphia Furniture Forum: What Was Learned?
The Cadwalader family-John; his wife, Betsy Lloyd; and daughter Anne-by Charles Willson Peale in its traveling frame had just returned from a six-month trip to two museums in Korea and one in Australia. Bret Headley made the frame because the original frame was too fragile to travel, and it had ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Few Fireworks but One Rarity Discovered at Americana Auction
"Paul Revere, patriot, silversmith, engraver, and artist?" That was the question some viewers asked auctioneer Steven Fletcher prior to the sale, he said. He told us that he answered them with, "Of course he was an artist. How do you think he laid out the designs on the many pieces ... (Read More)
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