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Lori Cohen of Arader Galleries, Philadelphia, asked
$3000 for Albert Adam’s
Petits Lièvres et Leur Mère,
lithograph with original hand color, 20" x 25½", pub-
lished in Paris in 1876.
Arader Galleries asked $750 each for hand-colored
engravings of fish (one shown) by Marcus Elieser Bloch
(1723-1799), from
Ichthyologie, ou Histoire naturelle,
générale et particulière, des poissons
. Framed, they were
16 3/8" x 23".
Ruth Van Tassel of Van Tassel—Baumann
asked $4800 for this silk memorial to Deacon
John Friend, dated February 25, 1785. Ruth
Van Tassel said the show was a good adver-
tisement for her conservation business and
for her shop, which is open Tuesday through
Saturday in nearby Malvern.
American cigar silks quilt, made of cigar bands,
in a Pineapple Log Cabin pattern with double
tassel fringe, used as a game table cover, 46¾"
x 47", framed with UV protective glass, $12,500
from Paul Vandekar of Earle D. Vandekar of
Knightsbridge, Maryknoll, New York.
Sloop Passing the Mark,
oil on can-
vas, 15" x 21", circa 1870, attributed
to Archibald Cary Smith (1837-1911)
was $23,000 from Michael Leslie of
Port ’N Starboard, Falmouth, Maine.
Archibald Cary Smith was a ship
portrait painter and ship builder. He
painted most of his pictures between
1867 and 1877. After 1877 he devoted
himself to designing yachts.
Carroll Tyson (1877-1956) was a
painter and collector and was known
as the Audubon of Maine. He began
painting birds around 1918 and had a
portfolio of 20, in 250 limited-edition
sets, printed in Italy. Sabina Wood
asked $4500 for this cormorant
.
Stoneware pitchers were
priced from $45 to $275
by Sabina A. Wood Art
and Antiques, Northeast
Harbor, Maine, and Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
, 1863, by
Hiram Dwight Torrey (1820-1900), oil on
panel, 23" x 19½", signed and dated at
lower right “H.D. Torrey/ Pinxt/ 1863,” was
$20,000 from Schwarz Gallery, Philadel-
phia. Torrey painted in Reading from 1853
to 1862 and was a supporter of Abraham
Lincoln.
Portrait of Edgar Patterson, 1804, by
Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), oil on
panel, 35¾" x 26". Charles Peale Polk
studied with his uncle Charles Willson
Peale, and by the time he was 18 he was
a professional portraitist. In 1791 he
moved to Baltimore, where he became
a dry goods merchant. He continued to
paint; more than 35 portraits by him
are known from his time in Baltimore.
Edgar Patterson was a merchant from
Georgetown who owned several mills
along the Potomac near East Falls, Vir-
ginia. The portrait was $55,000 from
the Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia.
Apair of circa 1800 NewYork mahog-
any armchairs (one shown), seats
upholstered
in horsehair, with a dou-
ble row of polished brass tacks and
square tapered reeded legs ending in
spade feet, similar to chairs made by
Slover & Taylor, was $6500 from the
Federalist Antiques, Kenilworth, Illi-
nois. They sold.
Michael Glatfelter of Mode Moderne, Philadel-
phia, asked $5500 for the Swan settee by Arne
Jacobsen (1902-1971), made by Fritz Hansen in
the late 1950s.
A pair of petite
lits de chien
(dog beds), French, was
$3900 from Stevens Antiques, Frazer, Pennsylvania.
The cold-painted bronze dog sculpture was $975.