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Maine Antique Digest, March 2017 35-E
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Carved mahogany dressing table, carving
attributed to the Marshall high chest
carver, Philadelphia, 1760, 28¼" x 36" x
20¾", sold to Alan Miller in the salesroom
for $56,250 (est. $50,000/100,000),
underbid on the phone. At Sotheby’s in
October 1989, it sold for $82,500. The
brasses had been changed and the color
improved.
The Hollingsworth-Humphreys family carved and figured
piecrust tilt-top tea table, probably from the shop of Thomas
Affleck, the carving attributed to John Pollard, Philadelphia,
circa 1779, with an old rich surface, 29½" x 32¼" x 30¼", sold
for $636,500 to a phone bidder, underbid in the salesroom
by Pennsylvania collector Steve Smith. It sold at Christie’s
in New York City in January 1995 for $398,500. Levi
Hollingsworth bought it in August 1779 and paid for in
part with seven gallons of spirits worth £52.10.
It remained in the Hollingsworth family until
it was bought by dealer David Stockwell of
Wilmington, Delaware. His successor, Ron
Bauman, advertised it in
The
Magazine Antiques
in January 1990.
Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), portrait of Mrs. James
Smith Colburn (Sarah Dunn Prince), oil on cradled
panel, 28½" x 22
⅞
", painted in 1817, sold in the
salesroom for $47,500 (est. $15,000/25,000). At
Christie's on September 27, 2004, it sold for $45,410.
This pair of portraits by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russell, 1784, oil on canvas, each
30" x 25", sold for $75,000 (est. $30,000/50,000) to Jim Kilvington. At Sotheby’s in May 1995, they sold for $107,000 (est.
$40,000/60,000). Thomas Russell, born in Birmingham, England in 1741, came to America in 1764, settling in Cecil County,
Maryland, at North East Forge. Coming from a family of British ironmasters, he was a key figure in the iron industry in
America, which was vitally important in the movement toward revolution and independence. He was one of the organizers
of the Principio Iron Company along with Lawrence Washington and other prominent men who doubtless depended on his
technical knowledge.
Set of 12 George III silver dinner plates, Paul
Storr, London, 1801, circular with gadrooned
rims, engraved with contemporary arms under
an earl’s coronet with motto “PER ACUTA
BELLI,” marked on bases, numbered and with
scratch weights, each 9
⅞
" in diameter, 217
ounces, sold for $32,500 (est. $20,000/30,000) to
John Ward on the phone.
Federal inlaid and figured mahogany bowfront
server, attributed to William Hook, Salem,
Massachusetts, circa 1810, 43" x 48" x 24½", sold to a
collector on the phone for $37,500 (est. $6000/8000).
Carved mahogany fire
screen, carving attributed to
Martin Jugiez, Philadelphia,
circa 1770, frame and
finial replaced, 63¼" high,
sold for $250,000 (est.
$60,000/80,000) to Alan
Miller. In January 1990 at
the Joynt sale at Christie’s,
it sold for $66,000.