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(Auction)Collectors Go after Bargains
Summer Landscape by E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), 1914, 221/4" x 26", sold for $278,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to a private collector from Northern California. It had been deaccessioned from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Paintings specialist Scot Levitt reminded us that a Fortune painting had sold at Bonhams & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's
A double portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850-1922) and his older sister Virginia Ludington (1846-1865) with a cat and shaggy dog, circa 1855, oil on canvas, 43" x 40", sold for $782,500 (est. $300,000/500,000) to Atlanta dealer Deanne Levison in the salesroom for a client. It ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bittel to Manage Delaware Show
Diana Bittel is the new manager of the Delaware Antiques Show. Bittel manages the Newport Antiques Shows, the new Wayside Inn Antiques Show opening on May 14 to benefit the historic inn, and is the liason member of the Antiques Council which manages the Nantucket Historical Association Antiques Show. She ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Bill Would Tightly Regulate Auctions
by Betty FloodMore transparency in the world of New York auctions will result if legislation introduced in the state legislature is passed. The proposed law would require auctioneers to provide detailed information about any items sold as well as disclosure if there is a "reserve price." Under the proposed law, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ken Farmer Sells a Big Little Fish
The big fish of the Farmer sale was this fish-form bitters bottle, described as light yellow-olive in color and marked "W.H. Ware/Patent 18XX" on its bottom. The bottle is approximately 113/4" high and when viewed along its long axis appears to slump slightly to the left. There is illegible lettering ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great Run
Bill Stahl at the podium on September 26, 2008, for Sotheby's sale of the Americana collection of Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore. The carved walnut compass-seat stool, Philadelphia, circa 1750, estimated at $200,000/500,000, sold for $5,234,500 (including buyer's premium). Photo courtesy Sotheby's.by Lita Solis-CohenOn December 3, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Saint Bernard Carving Tops Florida Auction
Circa 1900 39" wide Black Forest carved tableau of a Saint Bernard dog and pups, $30,590. Auctions Neapolitan photos.At Auctions Neapolitan's January 23 sale in Naples, Florida, a 39" wide Black Forest carved tableau of a Saint Bernard dog and her three pups sold for $30,590 (includes buyer's premium). Attributed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's January Americana Auction
Punch bowl with dolphin handles made by Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1700-10. At 66 oz. 8 dwt and 121/4" in diameter (171/4" length over handles), it is probably the largest piece of 18th-century American silver. The bowl descended in a Loyalist family since before the American Revolution and came to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Keno Auctions Launches with Preview in New York City
Leigh Keno (right) at his Friday night preview at the Regency Hotel to launch Keno Auctions.by Lita Solis-CohenOn Friday evening, January 22, Leigh Keno invited friends old and new to the Regency Hotel, five blocks down Park Avenue from the Winter Antiques Show, for a glass of champagne and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Mystery of K. Shirayamadani
by Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D.Shirayamadani, the Japanese artist who joined Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887, is shrouded in mystery. He avoided talking about his upbringing, his artistic training in Japan, or why he came to the United States. He remained at Rookwood until 1912 and returned to Japan until ... (Read More)
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