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4-C Maine Antique Digest, April 2015
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with four graduated scratch-beaded drawers.
In the late 18th century, the Roanoke River
basin was considered the back country of
North Carolina. With no major cities to speak
of, it achieved notoriety because it was the
destination for cabinetmakers migrating
from Virginia. It was a prosperous area with
large plantations. The china press evolved as
a more formal variation of the kitchen cup-
board that was better suited for the dining
room. It was most likely among a planter’s
finest possessions.
The late 18th-century mahogany Federal
serpentine sideboard from the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia was more decorative than
the china press. Its four front legs and styles
were decorated with inlaid bellflowers, pat-
erae, fans, and running vines and leaves. A
phone bidder bought it below estimate for
$21,240.
The “upsizing” Virginia floor bidder was
on a mission. He purchased at least four
other 18th- and 19th-century southern furni-
ture lots. Three were from Virginia: a walnut
jelly cupboard at $1298 (est. $1000/2000), a
circa 1800 Norfolk Federal inlaid serpentine
sideboard at $10,620 (est. $5000/10,000),
and a Norfolk 1760-80 Queen Anne tilt-top
tea table at $8850 (est. $6000/9000). His
fourth lot was a North Carolina yellow pine
hunt board at $2832 (est. $1000/2000). He,
like Alex Brittain, wanted to keep treasured
southern artifacts in the South.
Leland Little and his capable staff conduct
quarterly catalog sales. For more informa-
tion, contact the gallery at (919) 644-1243 or
visit the Web site ).
Linda Grew of Raleigh, North Carolina, liked
what she saw in this 7½" x 19¾"” x 7½" Ger-
man sterling silver centerpiece with beaded rim
and foot. “It would look good with flowers,” she
said. Grew was the winning bidder at $560.50 (est.
$400/600). Prunkl photo.
Seven lots of People’s Republic of
China gold panda coins were in the
sale. This 1986 coin was the oldest
and highest priced of the seven. All
came from the collection of Drs.
Arnold (d. 2013) and Helene (d.
2014) Gerall of New Orleans and
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The
1000-yuan coin opened at $10,000
and sold to a phone bidder for
$15,340 (est. $9500/11,500). This
same phone bidder came back
and bought a 2011 500-yuan gold
panda coin (not shown) for $1298
(est. $800/1000).
Lisa Egeli (b. 1966) is a member of the third generation of Egeli painters in
the United States. Her 41½" x 71½" Adagio sold for $11,800, slightly north
of its estimate of $6000/9000.
Few furniture lots were as dramatic as
the Anglo-Indian ebony and specimen
wood center table from the first half of the
19th century. Radiating from a central star
medallion, 32 curved wood panels cover the
table top. Outside the panels are an inlaid her-
ringbone border and a relief-carved edge. The table
sold for $17,700 to an Internet bidder, possibly from
overseas. A similar table sold at Christie’s London in
October 2010 for $47,430.
The interior lid of the leather suitcase on a fitted wooden stand was
marked for British gun maker T. Stensby. The case was divided into
six compartments for shotgun shells. The case (7½" x 18 ¾" x 11")
and stand sold to a floor bidder for $501.50 (est. $200/400).
“I love glass,” said Franca Dotti of Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, and Italy as she was examining
two Cluthra glass vases by the Kimble Glass
Company. Both were signed and produced in
the 1930s. The wide-shouldered white vase in
the photo is 6" high, and the rounded-top yel-
low-orange vase is 4" high. The pair sold for
$501.50 (est. $300/500). Prunkl photo.
Alex Brittain examined every aspect of this
14¾" high lidded storage jar by master potter
Daniel Seagle (1805-1867). He lost to an aggres-
sive and voracious phone bidder who bought it
for $7080 (est. $900/1200).
Live in North Carolina long enough
and you too will think this Burlon
Craig (1914-2002) face jug is good
looking. It is noteworthy because it
was one of the first Craig face jugs to
be marked “B.B.C. Vale N.C.” on the
bottom. Roddy Cline of Lincolnton, North
Carolina, who once owned most of the
pots in this sale, was one of the people who
convinced Burlon Craig to mark his wares.
According to pottery author and researcher
Terry Zug, Cline made a stamp and gave it
to Craig. This early jug sold to a phone bid-
der for $1652 (est. $800/1200).
Christopher Jones, an antiques dealer
from Alexandria, Virginia, examined
this mahogany and mahogany veneer
late 18th-century Federal Pembroke
table from every possible angle. It
resembles the Charleston, South
Carolina, tables pictured in the clas-
sic Bradford L. Rauschenberg and
John Bivins, Jr. book The Furniture
of Charleston, 1680-1820. The 27¾" x
31¾" x 21" table sold for $1062 (est.
$1000/3000). Prunkl photo.
Prunkl photo.