Maine Antique Digest May 2015

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Maine Antique Digest, May 2015 27-D
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The circa 1800 inlaid mahogany Hepplewhite wing chair, ex-Vogel, estimated at $2000/3000, went to Rhode
Island dealer Stanley Weiss for $7187. Weiss wrote in an e-mail that he got a sleeper: “This is a rarity
because [neither] Winterthur nor any of the major collections have any of this type of upholstered chair
with bellflowers on the legs. In the world of the antique collector, bellflowers put it quite a notch up from all
others, assuming the overall chair’s form is standard to the model, which this is. What excites me the most
are the rear legs, because they have that exaggerated Philadelphia curvature, and I’ve never seen any New
England or New York chairs with this type of leg, which is quite distinctive.” In all, Weiss bought four lots.
New England diminutive Chippendale blockfront kneehole desk, old
restorations to feet, 31" x 32½" x 20", $14,375 from the phone.
George W. Waters (1832-1912), signed oil on canvas, period frame,
30" x 50", went to a phone bidder for $16,100, more than double
its estimate.
Meissen porcelain figural group, signed and
numbered, some restoration, 16" x 14¾" x 11½",
estimated at $7000/10,000, sold to a collector on
the phone for $24,150.
Queen Anne
mahogany
b i r d c a g e
tea table,
e x - Vo g e l
collection,
28½" x 24",
$5750.
This Ives clockwork
toy of President
Grant, wood, metal,
and cloth, inop-
erable movement
but complete, 14"
high, descended in
the family of rel-
atives of Ulysses
Grant who lived
in the Syracuse,
New York, area. It
brought $9487.
Oil by William John Hennessy (Irish-American, 1839-1917), Mother
& Daughters in Springtime, 30" x 54", $11,500 (est. $15,000/25,000).
Other Brush consignments were
an Albert Paley (b. 1944) metal
sculpture that brought $15,525
and another Rickey metal sculp-
ture that sold for $21,850.
About 20 other pieces brought
five figures, including a Revo-
lutionary War-era powder horn
that made $10,580 and a Mas-
sachusetts Chippendale block-
front chest-on-chest that brought
$18,975. But if your budget was
tight, you could have bought
three painted bamboo Wind-
sor side chairs, refinished and
with some repairs, also from the
Vogel estate, for $57. How is
that for a deal?
From jewelry to paintings,
sterling to Orientalia, swords
to art glass, lamps to sculpture,
folk art, and furniture, take a
breath, clocks and pottery, Ori-
ental rugs and porcelains, it was
all there.
Thousands of bidders online,
over 150 people in attendance
at the sale, and over 15 phones
in action meant that very lit-
tle slipped through the cracks.
However, even if you did not
take anything home except your
cell phone and your traveling
companion, it was a good show
and tell!
Two million dollars was spent,
and the auction house earned it.
Sam Cottone commented after
the sale, “Good solid sale. Lots
of energy and interest.”
For more information,
243-1000.
Unusual John Burger four-gal-
lon jar, 15" high, minor hairline
crack on back, $3335.
In original patina and from the Darwin
Martin house, a pair of rare wall sconces,
16" x 8", by Frank Lloyd Wright went to
an online bidder for $18,400.
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