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(Fragment)The Machmer Sale
$198,900. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.by Lita Solis-CohenIt is no longer common to find a collection of extraordinary Americana that was bought in the rural countryside exclusively at farm sales and local auctions. Those who came to the estate sale of the collection of Pennsylvania folk art at Pook & ... (Read More)
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(Show)41st Annual Fall Original Round Top Antiques Fair
Round Top, Texasby Steve BrooksNancy Westmoreland, owner of House of Lamps and Antiques, Austin, Texas, turns vintage pieces into lamps. The body of this lamp is a blue and white Chinese teapot from the 1830's, complemented by a custom fabric shade and custom base. She asked $350 for it.This massive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In the Land of Oziana
Bloomsbury Auctions, New York CityPeter and the Swans, a pen and ink and gouache by John R. Neill 1877-1943) for the endpapers of Carl H. Grabo's Peter and the Princess, published in 1920, sold for $15,600 (est. $12,000/15,000). According to the catalog, it is the only known work of art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Craftsman Auction
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenMarblehead vase, 1915, incised and painted by Arthur Baggs with stylized flowers in yellow and orange against a dark blue and speckled medium blue ground, 81/2" high, sold on the phone for $27,600 (est. $15,000/20,000), underbid by another phone bidder.This exceptional ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art Auction
Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Cowan'sEarly Late Classic Navajo serape, 1865-70, with a background of raveled reds and tight horizontal motif of terraced chartreuse< diamonds, each with a central white cross, complemented by deep indigo zigzags and bars, two dark 1" rings on surface, one large outline of circle ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Andrew Wyeth Ink Leads Gamage Auction
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Rockland, MaineAndrew Wyeth pen-and-ink drawing, Spruce Trees, $58,300.Pear-shaped diamond, weighing 1.58 carats, in a platinum setting, $7975.by Mark SiscoAn auction with an important Andrew Wyeth pen-and-ink drawing was an appropriate way to open Maine's unofficial August antiques auction week. Bruce Gamage held his now-traditional opener at the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fresh Estates from Buffalo and Beyond Bring Bidders to Grogan
Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThis gilt and patinatedbronze figure by Emile Guillemin (French, 1841-1907) came to the sale from Claire Golant's estate and sold to a New York dealer for $26,450 (est. $8000/12,000). From the top of the goddess's torchere to the bottom of her carved giltwood marble-top ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Classics Endure: The Murfreesboro Antique Show
Murfreesboro, Tennesseeby Sarah DruryDealer R.L. Pinson (left) was there when the Murfreesboro show debuted in 1967 and is still selling. Promoter Don Detwiler (right) has headed up the event for the past six years and has won good reviews from dealers for increasing the show's attendance and visibility.David P. Taylor ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Moore Collection
Edward Hicks's Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners, 1829-30, a 171/2" x 231/4" oil on canvas in a cherry veneer frame hand lettered by the artist, sold for $1,314,500 (est. $2/3 million) to a phone bidder, underbid by Pennsylvania dealer Kelly Kinzle in the salesroom. One of five painted between ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Ceramic Circle Presents 2007 Book Awards
The American Ceramic Circle (ACC) presented two book awards at its annual meeting on November 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.Ceramics in America 2007, edited by Robert Hunter, is devoted to porcelain produced by Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris at the American China Manufactory in Philadelphia from 1769 to 1772. Bonnin ... (Read More)
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