Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

28-C Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

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This 10" x 14½" watercolor by a one of Maine’s

favorite son artists, Maurice “Jake” Day (1892-1983)

of Damariscotta, Maine, is titled

Dories, Louds Island,

Maine

and dated 1946. It sold for $385.

Four of the

15 paintings

in the sale by

Louis Michel

Eilshemius

(1864-1941) were

Indian

Summer

(above left), of a

woman and a young child

in a rural field, dated

1916, 29½" x 39½", $2860;

Baseball Miss

(above right),

of a young girl attempting

to catch a pop fly, 40" x 30",

$2640;

Interior with Nude

(left), 18" x 24", dated 1915,

$3520; and

Storm in Harbor

(right), 1910, 14" x 22",

which led the Eilshemius

lots at $4125.

Self-taught Maine artist Wesley Elbridge Webber

(1841-1916) may be best known for his moody

and atmospheric seascapes, although he painted

from Maine to Yosemite. Here we have a 13½" x

23½" naively romantic oil on canvas scene of field

workers stacking hay on a saltwater farm that

sold for $1100.

Someone got this Sheraton chest in mahogany with a tiger-maple top, reeded

three-quarter column corners, diamond inlaid keyholes, light string inlays,

oval brasses with beehive designs, and matching drawer front veneers for

$660.

Thisraretwo-volumesetof

A DICTIONARY

OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

… by

English poet, essayist, and lexicographer

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) is a fourth

edition published in 1773 and printed byW.

Strahan. It contains numerous revisions,

illustrations, and extensions to Johnson’s

original work. It was held in check at $2090

by some severe condition problems with

the binding.

Foster photo.

This pair of 18th-century bird’s-eye maple burl bowls, 10"

and 9" diameter, sold together for $1210. Each was densely

packed with bird’s eyes.

This patinated bronze Neoclassical bronze

sculpture of a centaur is signed “F. DeLuca”

for 20th-century Italian sculptor Ferdinando

Luca.At

54" tall, it stood about half life-size

(not that I’ve ever seen a live one to compare

it with), and it trotted away for $2750.

This 66" x 36" black and

gold fraternal lodge sign from

Brunswick, Maine, turned into a

big winner at $5500. Foster photo.