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(Show)Antiques Show Debut
Janet K. Fanto of Janet K. Fanto Antiques and Rare Books, Easton, Maryland, holds a copy of Oxonia Illustrata by David Loggan (British/Polish, c. 1634-1692). The folio-size tome contains 38 double-page plates and one foldout triple-page plate depicting various architectural views and scenes of the grounds of Oxford University. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Russian Art Tops American Photography
Oil on canvas of Kandahar, Afghanistan by Russian artist Alexandre Evgenievich Iacovleff, $172,500.Yellow-painted Maine country Hepplewhite tables are still strong in the furniture market, but it takes a special one to rise to the top. A single-drawer lamp table had the original mustard yellow base, but what separated it from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Hunt Valley Show: Sales Plus Interest from Younger Shoppers
These pieces were shown by Brennan & Mouilleseaux, Northfield, Connecticut. The Massachusetts inlaid mahogany and cherry bowfront chest was $6800, and the gilded gesso Regency mirror frame of circa 1840 was “well under five thousand dollars.” It’s 41" x 34" across the outside and 27½" across the waist. We missed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A South Carolina Weekend of Continental and Americana
The sale’s top lot at $155,250 was Allegory of War, an unframed oil on canvas by Louis Jean François Lagrenée.Fishing Fleet off the Coast, signed lower right “H.M. Mesdag, 1896” for Hendrik-Willem Mesdag (Dutch, 1831-1915), 19½" x 28 3/8", sold for $48,300 to a private collector from Switzerland.This eight-gallon jar, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Auctioneer Declares Bankruptcy
by David HewettOn March 5, an event that a host of unpaid consignors and dealers predicted would happen came to pass. James Douglas Cyr of Gray, Maine, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maine. (The filing was for him only, not his wife.) The filing was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judith and James Milne Close Gallery but Remain in Business
Judith and James Milne have announced they are closing their New York City gallery. In a letter to M.A.D., they write:"We are closing our gallery on 74th Street in Manhattan where we have shown country furniture, folk art, accessories, and antique garden furniture for over 30 years. Before that we ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-Americana: Black Boy Scouts, Ink Spots, and Other "Heroes of the Colored Race"
This 21½" x 14" black-and-white poster—one of the originals carried by striking sanitation workers who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis in 1968—sold for $40,800 (est. $8000/12,000). It came to the sale from a Missouri-based collector, active in the civil rights movement, who bought it at an auction ... (Read More)
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