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Maine Antique Digest, April 2017 11-C
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Lipman, sold for $14,640 (est. $10,000/15,000). It
seemed like a good buy for a piece with good color and
form, well-shaped feet intact, and an abstract graining
pattern.
A few paintings sold over expectations, but most sold
within estimates. An oil painting by Harry Leith-Ross,
Sledding , an appealing snow scene, sold for $85,400
(est. $80,000/120,000). Jamie Wyeth’s watercolor The
Rain Barrel sold for $26,840 (est. $25,000/35,000),
and a James Peale still life sold for $24,400 (est.
$20,000/30,000).
An oil on canvas landscape with a river and bridge by
Carl Philipp Weber (1849-1922), titled on its stretcher
Germantown, PA and signed lower left, 18" x 22", sold
on the phone for $7930 (est. $800/1200). A portrait of
the Reverend James Ross Reily by Jacob Eichholtz,
dated 1814, sold for $9150 (est. $1000/2000).
A Schwenkfelder fraktur and a large wool
Schwenkfelder needlework picture of a town that
descended in the family of the consignor sold well. A
wool needlework picture by Mary Ann Heebner sold
for $26,840 (est. $5000/10,000), and two fraktur by
Susanna Heebner, estimated at $800/1200, sold for
$3172 and $2440. (There were five works on paper
by Susanna Heebner.) A vorschrift (writing sample)
by Susanna Heebner sold for $6710 (est. $2000/4000).
Dealer Philip Bradley of Downingtown, Pennsylvania,
bought several Heebner works.
The most heated competition was for a large English
charger with allover yellow combed slip decoration. It
sold toward the end of the sale (at 10 p.m.) for $7320
(est. $1000/2000) to a bidder who had left a bid with the
auctioneer. Perhaps he had gone home to sleep. A few
lots earlier, a miniature stoneware crock with cobalt
trailing tulip decoration, 4⅛'' high, sold for $4392 (est.
$1500/2500).
See Bidsquare online for a priced catalog with all the
condition reports included. The online-only sale of 900
lots, held the following Monday, can also be viewed
on Bidsquare. All of it was on view during the preview
of the January 13 sale. Pook & Pook’s next Americana
sale is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 28
and 29, and will be on view during the Philadelphia
Antiques Show, beginning April 21 until sale time. For
more information, see ).
Susanna Heebner (1750-1818) of the Schwenkfelder
community (Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) created this
ink and watercolor fraktur with central potted tulips flanked
by birds, 6¾" x 7¾", which descended in the Heebner
family to the consignor. It sold for $3172 (est. $800/1200) to
dealer Philip Bradley of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It was
the first of five fraktur by Susanna Heebner (and several
attributed to her) in a collection of 11 Schwenkfelder fraktur
offered at Pook & Pook. The following lot (not shown) a
fraktur of similar design with tulips hearts but no birds and
with the same estimate, sold to Bradley for $2440.
Titled on one stretcher Germantown, PA and signed lower
left by Carl Philipp Weber (German/American, 1849-1922),
this 18" x 22" oil on canvas landscape with a river and
bridge sold on the phone for $7930 (est. $800/1200).
Depicting the Natchez and the Eclipse, this Currier & Ives
color lithograph, AMidnight Race on the Mississippi, was
published in 1860 and is 32¼" x 40¼". It sold for $2500
(est. $2000/3000). It has some stains and a tear. Condition
counts.
James Peale (1749-1831) signed and dated (1824) this oil on panel
still life with fruit. The 14½" x 18½" painting, with a Kennedy
Galleries 1972 provenance, sold in the salesroom for $24,400
(est. $20,000/30,000) to the underbidder for Sledding by Harry
Leith-Ross.
This Connecticut River valley Chippendale tiger maple
secretary desk, circa 1775, 94½" x 41", sold on the phone
for $18,300 (est. $15,000/25,000).
This circa 1800 Pennsylvania Federal cherry tall-case
clock with an eight-day movement and a painted face
has a case highly adorned with inlaid tulips, an oval,
and a star. It stands 95½" tall and sold for $7930 (est.
$4000/8000) in the salesroom to a buyer of major lots.
This circa 1805 Berks
County, Pennsylvania,
Chippendale walnut
tall-case clock with an
eight-day movement
and painted face,
signed “Samuel
Breneisen Reading,” has a case with an
arched door and lollipop panel base,
retaining an old dry finish. The 99" tall
clock sold for $9150 (est. $4000/7000).
Five phone bidders competed for this circa 1745
walnut tall-case clock by Benjamin Chandlee of
Chester County, Pennsylvania. The Queen Anne
sarcophagus bonnet has blind fretwork carved
with birds and foliate scrolls and encloses an
eight-day works, the brass face is inscribed “Ben.
Chandlee / Nottingham,” and the case has an
arched door. It is 101" tall. The central finial and
base molding have been replaced. The clock sold to
a phone bidder for $34,160 (est. $20,000/40,000).
This 7" tall x 12¼" diameter redware
bowl, 19th century, with yellow and
brown slip splashes has pioneer
collector Titus Geesey as provenance
and sold to the trade in the salesroom
for $4148 (est. $400/700) despite minor
glaze loss. It is large and a rare form.
This wrought-iron
trivet from the 19th century
with a heart motif, 17½" long,
sold for $915 (est. $200/400) after
10 p.m. toward the end of the sale.