Maine Antique Digest, April 2017

Maine Antique Digest, April 2017 29-D

AUCTION -

29-D

Sample quilt made up of 49 different hand-quilted

pattern blocks, cotton prints and solids, American, late

19th century, printed backing in black and gray, 83" x

84", small stains, some toning, greens faded, $480.

Continental image of the Crucifixion, watercolor

and gilt on vellum, portrait medallions of the 12

disciples surrounding the central image, 20" x

15½", wear and edge loss, $3360.

Hutch table with scrub top and cutout feet,

American, mid-19th century, pine, 29" x

66" x 38", worn old red paint, $2520.

Hepplewhite chest in cherry with inlay,

western Pennsylvania, late 18th or early 19th

century, 38½" x 40½" x 21½", refinished, age

splits, replaced brasses, repairs, $2400.

Painted dry sink, American, 1840-60, 32" x 55"

x 17½", replaced knobs and latch, repairs and

wear, the gray wash a later surface and purposely

weathered, $840.

Country pewter cupboard in old

red paint, American, 1830s-40s,

pine, one-piece construction, 94"

x 49½" x 16½", $3720.

Bennington flint enamel paperweight

depicting a recumbent spaniel, Vermont,

1849-58, marked, 4½" long, minor

colored-in flake on back corner, $510.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck (German/

French, 1881-1919) bronze nude of a

standing woman, signed and with H.

Gonot foundry mark, 24" high, good

condition with no scratches, dents,

or repairs, $1680.

Classical figure group after

Auguste Joseph Carrier

(French, 1800-1875), bronze,

depicting a seated woman

flanked by two young

children, 22" high,

$1320.

Peaseware

pepper pot,

Ohio, second

half of the 19th

century, 5"

high, $438.

Mose Tolliver (1919-2006) of

Alabama, painting of a figure

with hat, acrylic on masonite,

signed, a Carl Hammer Gallery

label on the reverse, 30" x

13½", unframed, $420.

Unsigned pencil and pastel drawing of the Great Lakes

schooner

Queen City

, 27" x 33" with frame, overall dark toning,

two vertical stains, taped to underside of mat, together with a

letter from the captain’s daughter, $1020. Launched in 1873, the

ship was built for the iron ore and grain trade and cost about

$60,000. In September 1869 the

Queen City

was driven onto Hog

Island Reef in Lake Michigan and sank.