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24-C Maine Antique Digest, March 2015
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Marvin Baer of The Ivory Tower,
Ridgewood, New Jersey, asked $1850
for this Japanese Kutani samurai fig-
ure, 1890-1900.
Dixon-Hall Fine Art, Phoenixville,
Pennsylvania, offered this
Composi-
tion
by JosephAmarotico (1931-1985),
gouache on paper, 38½" x 31", signed
lower left with stamp, for $6500. The
artist studied and later taught at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts and served as the museum’s
paintings conservator.
Christopher Rebollo of North Wales,
Pennsylvania, asked $12,000 for this
semi-high chest of drawers, Chester
County, Pennsylvania, 1740-60, wal-
nut, chestnut, white cedar, and poplar,
brasses restored, feet reshaped, signed
indistinctly in red pencil by its maker.
It has raised panel sides and measured
50¼" x 36½" x 20". The late 18th-cen-
tury portrait over it is of Jane Mitchell
Caldwell of Philadelphia, oil on canvas,
30¼" x 25¼". It was $7500. The tea
table, circa 1780, decorated in decoup-
age in the 1840s by Mary Burnett,
cherry, birch, paint, paper, and gold foil,
was $8500. The Windsor chair is one of
a pair, priced at $3500 the pair.
Christopher Rebollo
asked $3250 for this
punchwork tin lan-
tern, circa 1820. It
is missing its candle
socket and isinglass
and had the initials
“EM” and “CL.”
This polychrome oak
sculpture of Mary stand-
ing on a crescent moon
and holding the Christ
child, from the Brabant
region (between modern
Belgium and Holland),
circa 1550, with original
red and blue paint, some
repairs to the moon, 24"
high, was $14,000 from
Christine Magne, Anti-
quaire, Philadelphia.
Christine Magne said
this small
arm-
chair (
chaise à bras
) was reserved for
a carved infant Jesus during Spanish
ceremonial rites. Carved
en chapelet
(in
the form of rosary beads) and in poly-
chrome, this 17th-century Spanish chair,
20" x 13¼" x 8¼", was priced at $1400.
The print is a rare whaling scene,
A Shoal of Sperm
Whale off the Coast of Harwaii
[sic],
published
in Philadelphia, circa 1858. It was $16,000 from
Dubey’s Art & Antiques. The Baltimore mahogany
chest of drawers was $4500, and the pair of Chinese
export porcelain famille rose chicken skin (the glaze
texture) lamps was $2500. The small Chinese por-
trait on ivory is of an American gentleman and was
priced at $1500.
This Baltimore album quilt was $5000
from Dubey’s Art & Antiques, Baltimore,
Maryland.
This small child’s ladder-back
chair, with bold turning on its front
stretcher, 1725-40, retains some old
red paint under later black with some
touchup; it was $1175 from Hanes &
Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
A piece of history. A Philadelphia Lancaster
Turnpike stock certificate, dated 1776, valid
to 1792, was sold by James Kilvington to
Charles Keates, a young Philadelphia collec-
tor who had bought a small portrait of Ben-
jamin Franklin from Kilvington at the Dela-
ware Antiques Show.
Sabina A. Wood of Northeast Harbor,
Maine, and Bryn Mawr, Pennsylva-
nia, offered vintage photographs of the
Levant, Palestine, and France, taken in
the late 19th century. Unframed, they
were individually priced from $150 to
$200.
This small mahogany kas, likely made
in New York, circa 1800, 14¼" tall x
12" wide x 4½" deep, was $1475. In it
are English pearlware and yellow glaze
milk mugs priced from $275 to $525 for
the children’s mugs; the plate was $275.
This Samuel Kirk fish slice was $3500 from Britannia House
Antiques, Wayne, Pennsylvania.
These three Victorian majolica pugs, 1860, were
$900 from Sheila Ferguson of Chestnut Hill,
Pennsylvania.
One of a pair of large yel-
low Peking glass vases,
22" high, $40,000 the pair
from Wendy Zhang of Buy
Chinese Antiques, Radnor,
Pennsylvania.