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34-A Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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This New England painted pine
chest, circa 1820, with vibrant grain
and sponge decoration and stenciled
highlights and striping, 38" x 40¾",
sold for $2880 (est. $800/1200).
This Connecticut painted pine
49¾" x 34" schoolmaster’s
desk, 19th century,
retains a pristine
original blue surface.
From the collection
of Dianne Goldman,
ex-Lewis Scranton,
it sold on the phone
for $7800 (est.
$2000/3000).
This pair of elegant circa 1780
Philadelphia Chippendale
brass andirons, in 26¼"
tall columnar form
with fluted urn
finials over a classic
stop-fluted shaft
supported on a
molded architectural plinth with cabriole spurred legs terminating in ball-and-claw
feet with the extremely rare detail of cast shell knees, sold for $6000 (est. $6000/8000).
They are illustrated in Herbert Schiffer’s
The Brass Book
as B on page 63. (Another
similar pair of andirons, attributed to the Daniel King workshop, was sold at Pook
& Pook in April 2009 for $25,740.)
This 20" x 30" oil on
canvas landscape by
Thomas Birch (1779-
1851) with two figures
and a dog approaching a
cottage is dated “1840.” It
descended in the Ashmead
family and sold for $9225
(est. $4000/8000).
This “New Map / of the English Empire / of / America,” engraved
and colored by John Harris and sold by Morden and Brown, is 20"
x 23¾" and dated 1756. It sold online for $7380 (est. $1000/2000).
Attributed to David Cordier of southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1814-
19, the ink and watercolor fraktur for Christina Ulrich (left), with
central script surrounded by faces, birds, and tulips, is 6¾" x 8". This is
an exceedingly rare example by this artist. Pook sold one other Cordier
fraktur on October 8, 2004, from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald
Shelley ($32,200). Accompanying the Ulrich fraktur was a later 7¾" x 8"
ink bookplate made for her husband, Zachariah Allbaugh, in Dayton,
Ohio, dated 1825. The lot sold on the phone for $16,800 (est. $4000/6000).
Three phone bidders competed
for this small (26¼" x 26¼")
Shenandoah County, Virginia, hard
pine sugar chest in bright blue paint,
19th century. It retains its original
vibrant blue surface. The underside
of the lid is inscribed “James C.
Foltz Lantz Mill Shenandoah C V.”
The fall front is inscribed “Charles
Fodley.” James Foltz operated a distillery in
the small hamlet of Lantz Roller Mill. The chest
sold on the phone for $15,600 (est. $6000/10,000).
A pair of painted cast-iron
andirons, each in the form of a
chief with a feather headdress, late
19th century, 21½" high, sold in
the salesroom to Diana Bittel for
$9000 (est. $3000/5000).
Attributed to Diehl Pottery,
this 19th-century Pennsylvania
redware pie plate with yellow,
green, and brown slip tulip
decoration is 7¾" diameter and
sold on the phone for $14,400 (est.
$8000/12,000). Pook & Pook pre-
viously had sold it on October 27,
2012, as part of the Flack collection,
where it brought $17,775.