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The well-detailed hollow-body rooster weathervane with
remnants of red paint remaining on the comb and wattle, and
about 10% of the gilding still there, seemed well worth $920,
even though half of the arrow fletching is missing.
The polychrome Noah’s ark toy with the boatman himself and about eight pairs of his two-
by-two companions (there may have been more stowed away inside) sailed off with the tide
at $247.50.
Characterized as a Chinese
Chippendale cupboard by
the geometrically arranged
glass panel, this cabinet in
white paint has a salmon-
pink interior. Once a built-in
but now freestanding, it
went at $550.
A volume titled
La Vie de la Venerable Mère Marguerite
Marie…
(
The Life of the Venerable Mother Margaret
Mary…
), published in Paris in 1729, might have been
worth a lot more if it hadn’t been gutted to hide a
whiskey flask from the visiting pastor. It and three other
books sold as one lot for $137.50.
This rectangular tole-painted tin document box in varying shades of gold,
peach, and green ended at $165.
The large
wooden tea
caddy in red,
black, and gilt
paint harks
back to the
19th-century
clipper ship
days. It sold
for $55.
Obviously decorated by
the same hand, the painted
pantry box and the mortar
and pestle came from
Vermont. Both were done
up in reddish leopard-
spot patterns on a salmon
background. The pantry
box sold for $1540, and the
mortar and pestle for $935.
An imaginative paint
scheme of black
chevrons on an ocher
ground, surrounded
by yellow pinstripes
and green borders,
helped this dome-top
trunk reach $330.
Thoroughly painted with light
green groves of bamboo and
flying birds, this China travel
trunk with engraved brass
hardware closed at $60.50.