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A phone bidder paid $37,500 (est. $5000/7000) for “
City of East St. Louis”
(Riverboat)
by painter and copyist Alexandre Alaux (1851-1932), oil on
canvas, 22" x 27".
St. Tammany Parish
by Charles Giroux (c. 1828-1885), oil on canvas, 14" x 24", went to a
phone bidder for $60,000 (est. $5000/7000).
Seth Kaller was the successful bidder for
Henry Clay
Making His Great Speech
by John B. Neagle (1796-
1865), paying $27,500 (est. $20,000/40,000). This 54¾"
x 37" oil on canvas laid down on board was executed
in 1843. Kaller bought it for a client who owns Clay’s
original speech.
By Henry Dexter (1806-
1876), this bronze bust
of Abraham Lincoln,
16½" x 10½" x 5",
stamped “Roman Bronze
Corp. N.Y.,” went to
an absentee bidder
for $18,750 (est.
$2000/4000).
A phone bidder paid $6875 (est. $5000/8000) for this 1815-25 Classical ormolu-mounted,
marble, and parcel-gilt rosewood pier table, probably New York.
This Benjamin Franklin
bronze bust by French
sculptor Ferdinand
Barbedienne (1810-
1892), signed “Houdon
1778 - F. Barbedienne.
Fondeur,” 22" high,
sold for $22,500
(est. $5000/7000)
to the absentee
bidder who bought
Dexter’s Abraham
Lincoln.
Red Rose in a Standing Vase
by Martin Johnson Heade
(1819-1904), 16" x 8", oil on board, signed and dated 1883,
went to a phone bidder for $50,000 (est. $50,000/70,000).
Ex-Berry-Hill Galleries, it appears in
The Life and Works
of Martin Johnson Heade
and
The Life and Work of Martin
Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné
by Theodore E. Stebbins.
This pair of Regency ormolu wine coolers
is from a set of six that Christie’s said
was “almost certainly commissioned for
Thomas, 1st Viscount Anson (d. 1818),
for Shugborough, Staffordshire or his
St. James’s Square home and bearing his
coat-of-arms.” The pair went to a phone bidder
for $65,000 (est. $70,000/100,000). Four of the six sold on November 27,
1941, at Christie, Manson & Woods for £231. Each urn-form body has
a removable collar. The rim has three Bacchic masks and a grape and
leaf band above three spread-wing eagle supports. The dished plinth is
engraved with the arms of Anson quartering Adams, Sambrooke and
Carrier impaling Coke, and with the motto “
Nil desperandum
.”