Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 33-C

Carved from a yellow pine log, this 7" x 32½" x 22" trencher

from the 19th century has beveled sides and overhanging grips

on each end. It sold for $180 (est. $200/300).

Carl Christian Brenner (1838-1888) was a German-born American artist who is mostly

associated with painting in Kentucky. This oil on canvas depicts a single female figure

walking away from the viewer along a dirt road and headed toward a body of water. The

22½" x 40" (sight size) painting is signed and dated 1881. It sold to a telephone bidder for

$10,800 (est. $2000/3000).

This three-panel series of Roy Lichtenstein lithographs, after his original 1964 triptych

As I Opened

Fire

, was printed by the StedelijkMuseum,Amsterdam, which owns the original paintings. Lichtenstein

(1923-1967) was one of the most influential members of the Pop Art community. Each of these panels

measures 25½" x 23¾". This group of lithographs sold for $600 (est. $800/1200).

This small (3½" x 4

") ship

portrait drew considerable

interest. The oil on board is not

signed, but scratched into the paint

along the bottom edge is “Ship

America

of Salem, Stephen Webb

master, 1783.” The painting is

housed within a decorative metal

surround within a wide and deep

wooden frame. The little painting

sold to an Internet buyer for

$531.25 (est. $100/150).

These Chinese oxblood bowls, Qing Dynasty, are each 1

" high x 7

diameter. Offered in their presentation box, they sold to an Internet

buyer for $1000 (est. $150/250).

This oil on board by Joseph Henry Boston (1860-1954) is

Woman

Promenading in a Park

and dates circa 1905. She’s young, dressed

in high style, and viewed in a wooded setting. The painting is

signed lower left and measures 15¾" x 12" (sight size). With

restoration, the painting sold for $1680 (est. $1000/2000).

This group of eight 19th-century sterling silver wine tasters is probably

French. Each taster is chased with a different decorative pattern. Five of the

tasters display an unidentifiable mark next to the ring handle. The group sold

for $510 (est. $100/150).

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