Maine Antique Digest April 2015

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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 19-C
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Venus Victrix, after Antonio Canova (1757-1822),
was set in a carved, painted, and parcel-gilt wood
chaise (42" long) and sold for $9600. It came
from an area estate and had been estimated at
$10,000/15,000. A 37" high Carrara marble fig-
ure of a standing female nude with a horn by New
Hampshire-born Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1835-
1910) was estimated at $6000/8000 and sold for
$9600. A finger was broken, but the pieces were
retained and can be easily restored.
An 11½" long Grand Tour plaster model of
the Parthenon from about 1900 was set within
a Plexiglas case with a mahogany base and sold
for $5700 (est. $500/1000). As no sale is com-
plete without Louis Vuitton, Grogan & Company
obliged: a steamer trunk with three removable
shelves was estimated at $2000/3000 and realized
$11,400.
Art glass of interest included a couple of pieces
of Chihuly glass. A pink and gray Persian with a
red lip wrap that was signed and dated “Chihuly
1988” sold for $4500. A Chihuly lot that the cat-
alog labeled as “Five Piece Delectable Blue and
Maroon Persian Set with Brick Red Lip Wrap”
also went for $4500. An abstract sculptural vase
by Venetian glassblower Giuliano Tosi (b. 1942)
sold within the estimate at $1800.
Ceramics by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) found
favor as two 11½" high Chouette vases, made in
France in 1968, sold for $16,800, and a 17½" high
bottle vase decorated with faces, also made in
France but around 1950, brought $10,200.
Chief among the silver was a set of four George
II candlesticks made in London in 1756 by James
Morrison; each is engraved with a coat of arms and
marked “H.P. & C.” They sold for $9600 and had
sold previously at Grogan in 2005 for $16,000.
A six-piece English silver coffee and tea service
by Leslie Durbin of London from 1967, commis-
sioned by Vincent C. Ziegler of Wellesley, Massa-
chusetts, sold for $4800. A Colonial American sil-
ver cann, 4¾" high, made in Boston around 1750
by Jacob Hurd, had descended through the family
of the original owner and sold for $7200.
Herend porcelain drew interest as a 106-piece
Rothschild Bird pattern dinner service, with the
Hungary mark in underglaze blue, sold for $8400
(est. $2000/3000).
Let it be said that no dirty books crossed the
block. A two-volume first edition of Vladimir
Nabokov’s Lolita, published in 1955 by the Olym-
pia Press in Paris, failed to sell.
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The highlight of the paintings was Sevilla (18½" x 28") by Spanish art-
ist Emilio Sánchez Perrier (1855-1907), which sold within estimate for
$30,000. Photo courtesy Grogan & Company.
An Art Deco silver bowl, 75 oz., with
wooden stand, by Parisian makers
Tétard Frères brought $8400. Photo
courtesy Grogan & Company.
A Chinese gilt and patinated
bronze figure of Buddha
(11½" high), seated on a dou-
ble lotus throne, carried an
estimate of $1000/2000 and
sold for $14,400. Photo cour-
tesy Grogan & Company.
Three sinuous yellow and black
glass vessels, a pitcher, a vase, and
a chalice, by Dante Marioni (b.
1964) sold for $16,800. Marioni
moved to Seattle as a teenager and
studied with his father, Paul Mar-
ioni, at the Pilchuck Glass School,
and also with Lino Tagliapietra.
A 19th-century marble depicting Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon,
as Venus Victrix, after Antonio Canova, sold for $9600.
A John Whorf (1903-1959) roiling seascape watercolor (21½" x 29½")
went to a phone bidder for $4500. Photo courtesy Grogan & Company.
Americana aficionados found the sale of the
18th-century Federal mahogany linen press (81" x
48" x 21") very disappointing. Despite strong prov-
enance, it sold for only $660 (est. $2000/4000). The
successful bidder was more than pleased, however.
A surgeon’s kit from about 1830 was
estimated at $1500/2500 and sold for
$3600.
A carved and polychromed wood
guardian figure of Fudõ Myõ-õ,
flanked by two smaller guardian
figures (17½" at its tallest), was esti-
mated at $500/1000 and sold for a
whopping $38,400. Photo courtesy
Grogan & Company.
AChinese silk needlework hanging panel, decorated with bats, flowers, peacocks, and
other birds, estimated at $1000/2000, brought $42,000 from a buyer in Taipei. Photo
courtesy Grogan & Company.
The 1994 watercolor by Stephen Scott Young (b. 1957),
Sundown (12½" x 17"), came from an area collection
and sold for $24,000.