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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 23-D
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Chippendale serpentine chest of drawers in cherry,
school of Nathan Lombard, western Massachusetts,
circa 1800, 36" high x 43½" wide, refinished, top
possibly reset, $6000.
Chippendale blocked reverse-serpen-
tine desk-and-bookcase in cherry, Hart-
ford-Colchester area of Connecticut,
circa 1780, 83" high, old refinish, imper-
fections, $8400. The catalog noted, “The
subtle reverse-serpentine front relates to
several pieces attributed to the shop and
school of Eliphalet Chapin…. The rope-
turned quarter columns on the bookcase
relate to several pieces from the Loomis
Group in nearby Colchester.”
Landscape by Thomas Chambers (1808-1866), oil on can-
vas, unsigned, depicting a fisherman and fall foliage, 13"
x 17", original frame, $5880.
Flintlock Kentucky-style rifle marked for John Derr of Berks
County, Pennsylvania, curly maple full stock, first half of the 19th
century, approximately .45 caliber, 42" octagonal barrel, original
commercial lock, four-piece Derr brass patch box, German silver
inlaid eagle, the stock carved with a Pennsylvania tulip, original
finish, some scattered pitting, patch box lid slightly bent and not
closing tightly, losses and repair around the lock, lock with some
corrosion, 5" of forestock to nose cap professionally restored,
together with a period powder horn, $4200.
Crest carved with cherubs flank-
ing a flowerpot, attributed to
Pennsylvania or the mid-Atlantic,
late 18th or early 19th century,
walnut with old white paint over
the original polychrome paint,
26½" x 19", one minor chip,
$3720.
Double portrait attributed to Royall Brewster Smith (1801-1855), oil
on canvas, unsigned, an architectural setting with the Honorable and
Mrs. B.C. Bailey of Bailey Island, Maine, 29" x 54", plus modern
frame, museum-quality restoration, 20% overall inpainting, 40% to
more than 50% inpainting of the faces, $5125. Smith’s portraits are
known for their abstract and quirky characterizations of subjects:
noses painted in profile with shadows, while the rest of the pose is
nearly frontal; close-set eyes appearing almost crossed; eyes, lips,
fingers, and nails outlined; and hands awkwardly drawn.
Redware pie plate with green and
yellow slipware tulips, impressed
“J.L. Blaney, Cookstown, Pa.,”
mid-19th century, 11" diameter,
edge chips, some chips filled in,
surface wear with some loss to the
tulips, $4800. The catalog noted,
“Justus L. Blaney (1809-1875) was
listed as a potter in Cookstown,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in
1850, but by 1860, he was reduced
to the job of ‘day laborer’ in Meigs
County, Ohio, and then by 1870,
had moved to Muskingum County,
Ohio, and described himself as a
‘farm laborer.’”
Redware flask, incised “By John
Flack” on one side, “Uniontown
July 22nd 1809”on the other,
4¼" high, split in half and glued,
$5500.
Western Pennsylvania birth frak-
tur, dated 1804, ink and water-
color on paper, the central text
surrounded by birds and tulips,
12¼" x 7¼" (sight), plus mat and
frame, $3000.
Five-gallon salt-glazed stone-
ware crock, with “Tom Suttle”
in cobalt script above freehand
flowers, mid-19th century, $4125.
Suttle was a potter at Perryopo-
lis, Pennsylvania.
Salt-glazed stoneware crock, with
freehand script “Somerfield,
Penna.” and tulips, mid-19th
century, 12½" high, chips, faint
hairlines, $9900 (est. $150/300).
Silhouette by Auguste Edouart
(French, 1789-1861), the full-
length cutout portrait against
an inked background, inscribed
“Louis Hancock Stewart, Stam-
ford…,”signed and dated 1839,
12¼" x 10½", framed, $5313.
Mule chest in pine with
old red paint, New
England, late 18th or
early 19th century, 37"
high x 42½" wide, the
top drawer with a repair
to a split corner, a back
foot replaced, $16,800.
Portrait of Eliza Price Hamline
of Zanesville, Ohio, attributed
to Jacob Eichholtz (1776-1842),
oil on canvas, unsigned, likely
painted in 1824 to commemorate
her marriage to Leonidas Ham-
line, 14" x 12", plus later frame,
rebacked, some inpainting, $6900.
Schoolgirl-decorated box in
curly maple, second quar-
ter of the 19th century,
painted by a student at a
New England female acad-
emy, designs in mostly green,
red, and tan include foliage
with strawberry borders and
farmer’s arms; on the lid, a
dove, basket of roses, quiver
of arrows, and caduceus,
divided interior, 3¾" high x
10¼" wide, replaced brass ball feet, one side significantly darkened by
varnish, $3360. The box sold at Garth’s in October 2004 for $6612.50.
Bible box in curly maple, Pennsylvania, mid-
to late 18th century, 8" high x 18" wide, orig-
inal finish, snipe hinges, minor loss under the
lid, a few pieced repairs, $9600.
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