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Michael Boroniec of Lanesboro,
Massachusetts, asked $4200 for the white
earthenware
Bouquet
and $4200 for the
bronze earthenware
Bouquet
. The spiral was
priced at $3600.
Alan Kaplan of Leo Kaplan Ltd., New
York City, said a museum purchased
this rare brown sgraffito salt-glazed
mug with the name John Shaw and
the date 1742. He said the earliest
brown salt-glazed pottery
is from 1732, and ten years
later it was patented by
Ralph Shaw. The mug may
have been made for a Shaw
relative.
Alan Kaplan of Leo Kaplan Ltd., New York
City, sold this scratch blue salt-glazed mug,
dated 1753, and lots of other mid-18th-century
ceramics.
This monumental (48½" high) English
Aesthetic Movement Doulton Lambeth
faience floor vase painted by Florence
Lewis, circa 1885, with impressed marks
and painted monogram and shape number
on the underside, with some restoration, was
$50,000 from Jill Fenichell of The Bespoke
Porcelain Company, Brooklyn, New York.
It was once in the Harriman Judd collection.
“I finally figured out how to show things
out of a showcase, and I had my best
show yet,” Fenichell said. “Every dealer
plays a different role, and we all end up
complementing each other,” she observed,
thus explaining why this small show has a
big place during Americana Week in New
York every January.
The 16" high Royal Worcester Japanesque
vase with a matte ivory ground has an
applied full-bodied dragon and printed
marks in puce and is dated 1895. In very
good condition, with one minute chip to a
leg joint, it was $9200 from Jill Fenichell.
Martine Boston Antiques, Limerick, Ireland, asked $28,000
for this Minton majolica centerpiece or champagne cooler
designed in the 1870s by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse.
His work was shown at the Universal Exhibition in Vienna
in 1873 and at the U.S. International Centennial Exhibition
in Philadelphia in 1876.
Christopher Dresser designed this 14½" diameter majolica
centerpiece for Wedgwood, circa 1870, and the price was
$15,000 from Martine Boston Antiques. Martine Boston
Antiques photo.
Antoinette’s, Clifford Chambers, Warwickshire, England,
asked £900 ($1115) for this limited-edition Greek-inspired
Wedgwood ceramic vessel.
Katherine Houston of Boston,
Massachusetts, asked $20,000
for this amber porcelain
mantelpiece.
Robert P. Walker of Polka Dot Antiques LLC, Waccabuc,
New York, asked $12,500 for this 6¼" high Royal Worcester
Parian Aesthetic Movement teapot and cover, 1882, designed
by R.W. Binns and modeled by James Hadley. One side
depicts a flamboyant young man wearing a sunflower, while
the other side depicts a young woman wearing a lily. It has
a puce factory mark V (1884), gilt registration mark (21st
December 1881), and factory mark 1882 with the inscription
“Fearful Consequences -Through The Laws Of Natural
Selection And Evolution Of Living Up To One’s Teapot.”
In “greenery-yallery” colors, it relates to the Gilbert and
Sullivan comic opera
Patience
and was intended to satirize
the idea that if you surround yourself with beautiful objects,
you become beautiful yourself.