Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

38-E Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

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These 14" high cut-glass cocktail shakers

with sterling silver tops, made by T.G.

Hawkes & Co., were priced at $1450 and

$1950 by C.M. Leonard Antiques, South

Salem, New York.

The folk art box with painted hearts, stars, and leaves,

inscribed “L.S. Upham” on the top, 12" x 24½" x

12¼", 1850-80, was priced at $950 by A Bird in Hand

Antiques. The pine blanket chest, New England, with a

clamshell design, 1800-30, was $1250.

This 1920s console table with a red leather top and

a Neoclassical carved wood pedestal base was sold

by Andrew Spindler Antiques & Design, Essex,

Massachusetts. The hand-painted Neoclassical cobalt

glass vase, Venice, circa 1880, was priced at $7860.

Sorab & Roshi, jewelers from Greenwich,

Connecticut, offered this horn cuff with

coral, 18k gold, and diamonds for $4400.

American Clipper Ship in Full Sail

by Xanthus Smith (1839-1929), a 14" x 22"

oil, signed lower left, was priced at $9500 by James L. Kochan Fine Art &

Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine. Smith was born in Philadelphia and served during

the Civil War as a captain’s clerk on board the U.S.S.

Wabash

, the flagship of

Rear Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont, as noted by Kochan on the wall tag.

These Art

Nouveau

asparagus tongs

by Alphonse

Debain, left and

center, and one

on the right by

Charles Barrier

were available from Silver Art by D & R, Marseilles, France, and Brooklyn, New York. The

tongs on the left, with a design of a full-grown celery plant, were priced at $1500; the center

tongs with a chimera head design, plants, and flowers, were $1650; the tongs by Barrier,

with a floral basket design, were priced at $1400. All measure approximately 4" x 4".

Polaris Gallery, Southampton, New York, offered these two oil paintings by

American artist Lee Haber.

Brooklyn Bridge by Night

and

September Light

, each

14" x 18", were priced at $1950 apiece.