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(Auction)Blue Plate Special and Oriental Buffet
This 1883 Royal Worcester plate is 7 7/8" in diameter and is intricately honeycombed and hand painted and has a center scene of a gilt mountain landscape in Oriental style attributed to George Owen. It closed at $20,400.
This Chinese Kangxi period water pot, cataloged as in the taibo zun form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price Paid for Almshouse Painting
This oil on tin by Charles C. Hofman (1821-1882), labeled and titled in the painting Views of the buildings & surroundings of the Berks County Alms House, has a central oval bird's-eye view of the complex within an ornate border surrounded by eight smaller vignettes of the outbuildings and with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Slogs through a Rainy Weekend
Tom and Mary Jo Riggs are from Greensboro, Maryland. They trade as Country Sampler Antiques and are proud that they have "the biggest truck in the parking lot." The couple has configured a very large box truck to function as both their motor home and cargo carrier. The Arts and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Sale in Spite of Storm Delay
President Ashton Thomas said the auction house likes to schedule fine jewelry on Sunday morning, just to wake everyone up. Top lot of the entire sale was this platinum and diamond ring with a central stone of over 10.46 carats flanked by smaller baguettes. The ring sold for $196,800. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fred Thompson Hand-Colored Photo Brings Thousands
$3520. Photo courtesy Michael Ivankovich.
At Michael Ivankovich's October 11, 2013, auction in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a Fred Thompson hand-colored photo sold for $3520 (includes buyer's premium).
Fred Thompson was a photographer from Portland, Maine, who, like his contemporary Wallace Nutting, sold hand-colored photos during the early 20th century. Thompson visited Nutting's Southbury, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Avenue Antiques, Art & Design Show
Bridges Over Time, Newburgh, New York, sold several pieces of furniture including a petrified wood table with an iron base to a design firm. In the above picture is a bronze sculpture on a Formica base by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, a great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. The asking price was $9500. ... (Read More)
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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 113/4" 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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(Fragment)Two More High-Flying Folk Art Lots
Underbid by a collector, Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania, paid $545,100 for Views.... Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.
In an upcoming issue, we'll have a closer look at two auctions that added to the list of folk art lots that have sold for over $500,000. At Pook & ... (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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