Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

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20-C Maine Antique Digest, March 2017
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20-C
A centennial American tip-top tea table on a tripod
base with claw feet and inlaid with an American eagle,
two American flags, and portraits of Martha Washington,
George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette sold
online for $1980. An L. & J.G. Stickley quartersawn oak
daybed with mortise and tenon construction, slatted sides,
original finish, and some wear was signed on the side rail.
There was no cushion. It sold for $540 (est. $800/1200).
An 18th-century Newport mahogany slipper-foot tea table
in the Goddard/Townsend style, estimated at $3000/5000,
had some repairs and wear and was passed. A previous
estimate from another appraiser had valued it at $28,000.
A 92" tall American mahogany tall clock, circa 1810,
with a Scottish dial and works by John N. Smith of
Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland brought $2640. The clock
was not in working order, but its fretwork was original;
its brasses had been stripped for the World War II metal
drive and later replaced. Smith was known for producing
complicated mechanisms and distinctive dials. A late
18th-century English mahogany bracket clock by Joseph
Catherwood of London with brass trim and engraved
works had a replaced dial but retained fragments of the
original paper dial. The 19" high clock had been working
but was not guaranteed to continue to do so. It sold for
$1800.
Ferry Crossing, thought to be a view of the Acushnet
River, which runs between New Bedford and Fairhaven,
was an oil on canvas, 12" x 20", by the Rotterdam artist
Albert van Beest (1820-1860), who in his 20s arrived
in New York and set up as an instructor. One student
was William Bradford of New Bedford, and the two
artists later shared space in New Bedford where they
collaborated. The painting came from the Hill estate and
sold for $9600.
A 20" x 27¼" sunset seascape signed by John
Hammerstad (1842-1925) brought $1560 (est. $200/300).
A 19th-century alabaster of a nude on a rock with a
crab in the surf, 25" high, by Pietro Bazzanti (1842-1881)
of Florence, Italy, sold for $2520. A 27½" high bronze
figure of a white male slave by New York sculptor Helen
Gertrude Sahler (1877-1950), who was also a painter and
a writer, sold for $2280.
A Tiffany & Co. sterling footed asparagus tray with an
inset sterling liner with a floral and shell decoration sold
for $2640 (est. $1500/2000). A late 19th-century silver
serving spoon and fork, each decorated with a figure
serving two cherubs and the fork engraved with a lobster,
sold for $984 (est. $200/400). A Gorham sterling flatware
service for 12 in the Chantilly pattern brought $1680; a
Towle service for 12 was $1440. A five-piece sterling,
ebony, and Formica coffee and tea service, designed by
Donald Colflesh for Gorham, circa 1970, was estimated at
$18,000/26,000 and was passed.
A late 19th-cenury pair of 12½" tall Bohemian
cranberry and enamel lusters with portrait medallions of
children and flowers and fancy cut prisms sold online for
$1750. They came from a Block Island antiques dealer.
Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904), who was born and died
in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, also spent time in Europe. His
European Mountain Landscape with Figures, a 12" x 17½"
(sight size) oil on canvas, is dated 1888 and sold for $1200.
The carved and painted mid-
20th-century American eagle
advertising “The Butler Policy”
had been retrieved from a
building by Michael Ippolito. It
brought $1440. Marion Antique
Auction photo.
This 19½" x 30" oil on canvas
scene of a beached sailing vessel
with figures and a horse cart is
signed and dated 1888 by Samuel
Phillips Jackson (British, 1830-
1904), who painted frequently
along the coast of Devon and
Cornwall. The painting brought
$3900 (est. $2000/3000).
This 16½" x 20" oil on canvas scene of sailing vessels off
the Isle of Wight by Thomas Buttersworth (British, 1768-
1842) retains much of the original label from the London
gallery H. & P. de Casseres. From the estate of Noel
Taber Hill (1941-2016) of South Dartmouth, Massachu-
setts, airline pilot, antiques dealer, sailor, fisherman, and
entrepreneur, it fetched $9000.
The Alexander Calder (1888-1976)
colored lithograph Bubbles, 29½"
x 22", is signed in pencil and
numbered 73/100. It sold for $1980.
Michael Ippolito’s group of
50 whalebone fids and other
objects, many with carved
fists and turned and geometric
designs, is set in a shadow
box and sold on the phone for
$2880 (est. $500/800). Marion
Antique Auction photo.
This circa 1950 oil on canvas, a 20" x 24" view of the general store
at Truro by Provincetown artist Robert N. Berglund (1921-2016),
was shown in 1953 at the Cape Cod Art Association show in 1953
where, according to a label on the back of the canvas, it had been
priced at $275. Here it realized $1560. Berglund taught fine art at
Boston University for some years and spent much of his career as an
advertising executive in Boston.
Bidders settled into the auditorium for the auction at the Marion Music Hall.