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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 17-B
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Frederic Bartholdi (French, 1834-
1904),
Liberty Enlightening the
World
(The Statue of Liberty),
modeled in 1884, cast 1894-1901,
32½" x 12" x 12", was $1.7 million
from Gerald Peters Gallery, New
York. “It is Americana, but it is
French,” said Alice Levy Duncan,
in charge of sculpture at Peters.
Phebe Ann House stitched “To be Good is to
be happy” on her sampler when she was 12
years old in 1825 under the instruction of Sarah
McCardell, a 36-year-old schoolmistress teach-
ing in Columbia, Pennsylvania. She stitched a
house with a girl and a chair on the lawn sur-
rounded by a fence; the folky composition was
bordered with flowering vines and an overall
border of ribbons. Illustrated in Betty Ring’s
Girlhood Embroidery
, it was priced at well into
the six figures and did not sell. Huber photo.
The Old Print Shop, New York City, asked
$95,000 for this four-sheet “Birds Eye View of
Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Environs,” drawn by
James T. Palmatary and printed by G.F. Schuch-
man & Benjamin Singerly in 1859. It sold to
Pittsburgh collector Harley Trice, who said the
only other copy he knows of is the one at the
Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh where it hangs in
the cloak room and has been mounted on a liner
and varnished. This three-color lithograph, about
3½' tall x 7' wide, was never framed. The view is
fromMount Washington. Palmatary traveled the
U.S. doing large panoramic views of major cities.
The publisher in Pittsburgh designed the print
so it would be mounted on linen and suspended
on sticks like a map. The Old Print Show had the
four sheets framed.
James Peale (1749-1831), portrait of
Anthony Groves, oil on canvas, 28" x 24",
$35,000 from Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia.
Peale, best known for his miniature and still-
life paintings, is the younger brother of the
better-known Charles Willson Peale (1741-
1827). After failing eyesight caused him to
cease miniature painting in 1812, he turned
to full-size portraits, then to landscapes and
still lifes. Robert Schwarz said Peale charged
more for portraits with landscape back-
grounds like this one.
This pair of portraits of a young couple
seated on red chairs, attributed to George
G. Hartwell (1815-1901) of the Prior-Ham-
blen school, New England, circa 1840, each
24" x 20", has a Mary Allis provenance;
Barbara Pollack wanted $49,500 for the pair.
The paint-decorated candlestand, possibly
Massachusetts, circa 1800, 28" high, the top
18¾" x 13 3/8", was $29,500. The collection of
glass tulips and leaves was $2500. The pair of
sculptural Queen Anne side chairs in original
red paint, Connecticut, maple and ash, 1790-
1800, 46" high x 20" wide x 15½" deep, 18½"
sitting height, was $55,000. The seats have
been reinforced with flat oval reed to keep
the original rush in place.
S.J. Shrubsole, New York City,
asked $200,000 for this New York
teapot by Simeon Soumaine, circa
1730, one of six known. It’s a rare
form with exceptional engraving.
C.L. Prickett of Yardley, Pennsyl-
vania, asked $58,000 for this four-
drawer mahogany chest of drawers
in a desirable small size and color.
It sold. The looking glass over it,
English or American, was $28,500.
A portrait of Beatrice Whittaker by Rob-
ert Henri (1865-1929), 1919, oil on can-
vas, 32" x 26", was $550,000 from Adel-
son Galleries, New York City.
The 18½" x 31" gouache, a panoramic view of
Hong Kong Island seen from Kowloon, the harbor
crowded with Chinese and western vessels, circa
1860, by a Chinese artist, was $102,000 from Mar-
tyn Gregory of London, who said it was his 25th
year showing at the Winter Antiques Show.
Florence Knoll’s second husband, Harry Hood
Bassett, was president of the First National
Bank of Miami. She convinced him to commis-
sion Harry Bertoia to make ten large sculptures
for the bank in 1956. James Elkind of Lost City
Arts, NewYork City, brought two of these large
sculptures to the armory to decorate the lobby.
They are freestanding and reflected the light,
and as the sun changed positions, they never
seemed static. They were for sale for $240,000
each. They stood in front of the new logo for
Winter Antiques Show to benefit the East Side
House Settlement.
This portrait of a small girl (Susannah
Wadhams) holding a yellow bird, oil
on pine, 20½" x 16", has always been
hung from its breadboard ends, never
framed. The 1825-30 either Plymouth,
Pennsylvania or Hope, New Jersey,
portrait was $24,000 from Joan Brown-
stein of Newbury, Massachusetts. Joan
Brownstein photo.
A Chippendale maple high chest of draw-
ers, attributed to John Wheeler Geer
(1753-1828) of Preston, Connecticut, fea-
turing freestanding twist-carved columns
and ball-and-claw feet was sold by Nathan
Liverant and Son, Colchester, Connecti-
cut. Liverant photo.
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