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Paul Vandekar of Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge
Inc., Maryknoll, New York, had a dog to show. He asked
$5800 for it.
The Venetian
cristallo
glass center bowl with a blue cane rim and foot,
circa 1580, was $9750 from Mark J. West of Purley, Surrey, England.
Pictured is one of a pair of
façon de Venise
glass
candlesticks from the Low Countries, possibly
Liège, circa 1680. Mark J. West offered the pair at
$16,000.
These Coalport Fruit Cake pattern plates, 1810-30, were $400 and $500
from Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room, Baltimore, Maryland.
Elizabeth Taylor’s scratch blue tea caddy,
dated 1767, was $3500 fromA.J. Warren
of Maria and Peter Warren Antiques.
This Fazackerly delft punch bowl made
in Liverpool, England was $9500 from
A.J. Warren of Maria and Peter Warren
Antiques, Wilton, Connecticut.
John Suval of Philip Suval,
Inc., Fredericksburg,
Virginia, asked around
$10,000 for these Chinese
export porcelain famille rose
Ho Ho boys.
Appropriate for Americana Week, Ferrin
Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts,
offered this platter by Mara Superior, with
text that reads “Americana / Blue Salt-Glazed
Stoneware / ACollection,” 2016, porcelain, glaze,
and gold leaf, 15" x 19" x 2", priced at $4800.
Jeffrey S. Evans &Associates, Mt.
Crawford, Virginia, asked $425 for
the Gillinder & Sons, Philadelphia,
glass plates with portraits of
candidates James Blaine and John
A. Logan for the 1884 presidential
campaign. The pair of goblets was
$350, and the pair of wine glasses,
$125. The pressed-glass tableware in
the Cable pattern (not shown) ranged
from $2500 for a water pitcher to $650
for an 8"diameter compote with a
chip to the edge of the foot and a chip
under the rim of the cover.
This Chinese export porcelain teapot with a
depiction of Hope leaning on her anchor while
watching a departing ship flying two American
flags, all under a gilded inscription “He is Gone”
on the front and back, has a double-strap handle,
and the cover and shoulder have a blue wave
border. Polly Latham of Boston, Massachusetts,
who priced the teapot at $7500, said it was
probably from a special-order tea service and that
she has seen just one other example.
Michael Schunke and Josie
Gluck of Vetro Vero, West Grove,
Pennsylvania, asked from $250
to $650 apiece for these elegant
colored glass bottles.
Steven Young Lee’s 2017
Vase with Dragon
of porcelain,
cobalt inlay, and glaze, 11" x 11" x 21", was bought
by the Newark (New Jersey) Museum from Ferrin
Contemporary, North Adams, Massachusetts. According
to the gallery, “Steven Young Lee is a Korean American,
who recently had a career survey show at the Renwick
[Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in
Washington, D.C.]. His is the perfect immigrant story.
He has been the resident artist director of the Archie
Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena,
Montana, since 2006. He has taught at universities
in China as part of a cultural exchange program in
Jingdezhen, Shanghai, and Beijing.” Ferrin photo.