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(Auction)Highlights of Schultz Auction
Several pieces of lighting by Tiffany were offered. A floor lamp with jeweled shade (shown) brought $43,125. An Acorn lamp reached $14,950, and a lamp with three lily shades fetched $5462.50.Schultz Auctioneers, Clarence, New Yorkby Charles E. WennerPhotos courtesy Schultz AuctioneersKelly and Ben Schultz held a two-day auction at their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chief's Blanket a Winner, Pre-Columbian Lots Withdrawn
The sale's top lot, a 55" x 67" early third-phase Navajo chief's blanket, sold on the phone for $213,300 (est. $5000/7000). The stripes are natural white and dark brown with indigo-dyed blues. The triangles are the same colors shot through with dyed reds. Condition, including old repairs and wool losses, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American, Nepalese, and Mexican Artworks Lead Thomaston Sale
A 9" x 12" (sight size) oil on board by William Aiken Walker (1838-1921) depicting a Black family on the porch of a ramshackle sharecropper's cabin sold for $26,450.This oil on canvas attributed to Mexican artist Mariano Rodriguez Pelaez, 23" x 31" (sight size), showing the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico ... (Read More)
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(Feature)After 100 Years an Important Sprinchorn Makes a Long Journey Back to Maine
Blue Landscape by Carl Sprinchorn, 1911, oil on canvas, 30" x 39", collection of the Carl Sprinchorn Admiration Society. The discovery of this painting in Sweden offers an opportunity to explore the initial meaning of Maine for Sprinchorn's career as well as a chance for Mainers to take a closer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paintings Sale Is Encouraging
La Jolla Beach by Guy Rose (1867-1925), oil on canvas, 24" x 29", sold for $410,000 (est. $350,000/550,000), the auction's highest price, to a private collector who lives in La Jolla.Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Moraine and Meadow, Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California, 1924, oil on canvas, 25¼" x 30¾", sold for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show: A Market Uptick
The roses in the dividers on Park Avenue by sculptor Will Ryman sprouted during the show, some with aphids and beetles, suggesting that "everything's coming up roses."This large (23" diameter) Chinese export porcelain christening bowl, Qianlong/ Jiaqing period, circa 1795, was made for the American market and has sepia landscapes—one ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Jewelry Auctions
This platinum and 7.60-carat emerald-cut diamond ring, accompanied by a GIA report stating that the diamond is J color, VS1 clarity, sold for $134,500 (est. $60,000/80,000). Sotheby's.Of the top five lots at Sotheby's February sale, four were platinum and emerald-cut diamond rings. This signed Cartier example, in a signed Cartier ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moran Joins Leslie Hindman
Mark F. Moran has joined Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in the fine furniture and decorative arts and business development departments. He will perform appraisals and work with estate planners in regions west of Chicago, primarily in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.Moran has worked in the antiques business for over 30 years and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Daniels to Sell Illustration Collection
The Little Black Hen by E.H. Shepard.A decade after selling their folk art at auction, collectors Kendra and Allan Daniel will sell children's illustration art at Sotheby's on April 11 in New York City. The artwork features characters such as Babar, Madeline, the Brownies, Christopher Robin, and Raggedy Ann. Artists ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maloney Receives ISA Media Award
Certified appraiser and veteran appraisal course writer, author, and instructor David J. Maloney Jr. of Appraisal Course Associates has received the 2011 International Society of Appraisers' (ISA) Media Award for his book Appraising Personal Property: Principles & Methodology, 4th Edition.Published by Appraisers Press in 2010, the 570-page book is a ... (Read More)
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