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Paul Vandekar of Earle D. Vandekar of
Knightsbridge Inc., Maryknoll, New York,
offered a wall of Piero Fornasetti plates
priced from $500 to more than $1000.
“Tortoise Risotto” is one of the rarest recipe
plates made for Fleming Joffe, a high-end
leather goods company in New York, as
Christmas presents for its customers. It was
$1200.
The poplar paint-decorated dower chest with an arched panel with the
name “Elisabeth Enderleinich, 1817,” Berks County, was $8500. The
Chester County inlaid spice box, with line and berry inlay with herringbone
surrounds and restored feet, circa 1740, was $52,000. The walnut tall chest
of drawers with fluted corner columns, bold ogee feet, and bail and rosette
brasses, circa 1790, was $8500. The walnut miniature blanket chest with
original ogee feet and brass escutcheon and knobs, circa 1775, was $7500;
all from H.L. Chalfant of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The Sands family chest of drawers, Philadelphia, 1760-80,
mahogany with poplar and white cedar, descended through an
18th-century family in Annapolis. It was $13,500 from Taylor
Thistlethwaite of Glasgow, Kentucky.
Martha Gunn
Toby mug,
Staffordshire,
$1495 from Dale
Hunt of the
Antique Store
in Wayne,
Wayne,
Pennsylvania.
Ruth Van Tassel
of Malvern,
Pennsylvania,
asked $3800
for this French
prisoner-of-war
bone sewing clamp
with containers
for bodkins and
needles and a
pincushion and
spools.
This lead fountain
of a frolicking putto
and a water-spouting
frog was $1450 from
Stevens Antiques,
Frazer, Pennsylvania.
Lori Cohen of Arader Galleries,
Philadelphia, asked $12,000
for John Bachman’s bird’s-eye
view of Philadelphia, printed by
Sarony & Major and published
by Williams & Stevens, New York,
circa 1850. The color-printed
lithograph with hand coloring is
21" x 27
⅝
" (sight).
Gary Sargeant of Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $14,500 for this George III satinwood
serpentine chest of drawers with its original hardware, circa 1780. The pair of side chairs
is from a set of six. Some of the slip seats retain a label from Ginsburg & Levy, Madison
Avenue, New York.
This theorem-painted
tole tray, second quarter
of the 19th century,
was $3900 from the
Norwoods’ Spirit of
America, Timonium,
Maryland.