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Maine Antique Digest, March 2015 27-A
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One from a set of six painted and
gilded Italian armchairs, circa
1800, with nice old—but probably
not original—surfaces, $12,500
the set. As anyone who has dealt in
this field will tell you,
sets
of arm-
chairs are really rare.
The full set of the Italian chairs.
Explorer II
, a 50" x 38" oil on
canvas by Santa Fe, New Mex-
ico, artist Jamie Chase, dated
1994, $5500.
A striking rosewood and gilt center or loo table, circa 1825,
$42,500. Dawkins said, “It’s the best center table on Firstdibs
under fifty-six thousand dollars,” and noted that two others on
that site are priced at $86,000 and $108,000. He added, “As a new
dealer, I can’t price things at the top. I try to offer things at a
reasonable price.”
Detail of the center table’s base.
Dawkins attributed the table to
Gillows of Lancaster and said a
similar 1823 base design is docu-
mented to the firm.
Detail of the table’s distinctive
foot.
Circa 1795 satinwood sofa with Angelica Kaufmann style painted decora-
tion, $12,500. Dawkins said the fronts of the arms, which are now covered,
were made to be exposed and still retain their original decoration under
the upholstery. He noted that there are a lot of tack holes and that many of
them are early, suggesting that the arms were upholstered fairly soon after
the sofa was made.
Detail of the sofa’s painted
decoration.
Apair of highly elaborate mahogany Chinese Chippendale chairs. These
are not period but instead date from about 1900. Dawkins said they are
identical in design, construction, and age to armchairs in a suite supplied
in 1898 to William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme at Thornton Manor
in Merseyside, England. Four of those chairs are in the Lady Lever Art
Gallery in Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, Merseyside, England. He said
the chairs are on consignment from a Kinderhook neighbor whose fam-
ily bought them in England more than 80 years ago. Dawkins said he
will take the occasional consignment, but “ninety-eight percent of my
inventory I own.” The chairs are priced at $21,500.
A fascinating circa 1825 arm-
chair made, surprisingly, of
oak
with real ebony—not ebonized—
details, $9875.
Rear view of the oak armchair
with its broadly reeded top rail.
Dawkins dates this Italian
Baroque mirror to about 1650. Its
surface is flocked red velvet with
gesso decoration, and it is $5650.
Dawkins said it came from the
Beverly Hills estate of actor James
Coburn, whose house was deco-
rated by the well-known designer
Tony Duquette in the 1960s.
This unusual white-enameled fiberglass table is made to look like
draped cloth. It’s 5' in diameter and dining table height. The gath-
ered fabric design extends under the entire tabletop. Dawkins said
it was produced circa 1965 by Chicago interior designer Richard
Himmel. It’s priced at $11,500. “I like pieces of any period that can
translate and work in a room,” Dawkins remarked.
Dawkins likes to mix modern art with
antiques. This untitled 26 3/8" x 22½" oil
on canvas, predominantly in shades of
white and yellow, is by contemporary artist
Antonio Aresco, a friend of Dawkins’s from
Brooklyn, New York. It’s priced at $2250.