Maine Antique Digest, December 2016

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36-A Maine Antique Digest, December 2016
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A 19th-century 8¾" x 6" Pennsylvania octagonal toleware
tray with a vibrant yellow, green, and orange decoration
sold for $2706 (est. $1200/1600). At the Richard and Joane
Smith collection sale at Pook & Pook on October 30, 2010, it
had sold online for $3081.
Heinrich Engelhard of southeastern Pennsylvania,
active 1819-36, created this ink and watercolor fraktur
religious text for “Georg Etter.” Dated 1830, the
13½" x 11½" fraktur, ex-George Scott collection and
ex-David Wheatcroft, sold for $2880 (est. $2000/4000).
At Christie’s Scott sale in June 1994, it had sold for
$4140.
From a New York collection,
this circa 1760 Massachusetts
QueenAnnemahogany tea table
with a dished top and scalloped
apron, supported by delicate
cabriole legs terminating in pad
feet and retaining an old mellow
finish, 25¾" x 30" x 18¾", sold
for $9000 (est. $5000/10,000).
This circa 1770 Pennsylvania figured walnut or mahogany
chest-on-chest with three short drawers and six long
drawers, on straight bracket feet, with original unusual
open rococo brasses and an old dry surface, sold for $9000
in the salesroom to Lancaster dealer Vernon Gunnion,
underbid by Robesonia dealer Greg Kramer. “I’m taking
this one home and keeping it,” said Gunnion.
This circa 1800 New England
painted candlestand retains
an old blue surface. With an
octagonal top and turned
standard supported by
snake feet, the 24½" x 15½"
candlestand sold for $2640 (est.
$2000/4000). Northeast Auctions
had sold it on August 3, 2002,
from the Kahn collection.
From the Mahantongo area of
Pennsylvania, this early 19th-century
painted hard pine Dutch cupboard
with elaborately reeded pilasters and
lower doors and star-carved drawers,
retaining a later blue surface, 81½" x
52¾", with a Titus Geesey provenance,
sold for $10,200 (est. $4000/8000).
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