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Olde Hope Antiques, New
Hope, Pennsylvania, asked
$178,000 for the 49¼" x 43½"
x 22½" four-drawer painted
chest attributed to Johannes
Mayer (1794-1883) with painted
decoration attributed to the
Reverend Isaac Stiehly (1800-
1869), Mahantongo Valley,
Northumberland or Schuylkill
County, Pennsylvania. It is
dated 1830 across the top
front. It is poplar and pine
with its original painted and
polychrome surface. The
spread-wing eagle is by Aaron
Mountz of Cumberland Valley,
Pennsylvania. Carved in 1893,
the 14¼" high x 36½" wide x
9¼" deep eagle is one of the
largest carvings by Mountz;
it was $215,000. The floral
still life with floral border,
watercolor on paper, related
to the work of Schwenkfelder
Sarah Kriebel of Montgomery
County, Pennsylvania, and with
an Edith Halpert Gallery label
on the back, was $48,500.
Olde Hope Antiques asked $385,000 for
The
Old Covered Bridge
by Anna Mary Robertson
“Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), signed lower
left. The mixed media and mica on canvas
is large at 35½" x 44¾". Formerly it was
in the collection of Barbara Johnson. The
spread-wing eagle with banner and shield
wall plaque by John Haley Bellamy (1836-
1914), Kittery Point, Maine, last quarter 19th
century, carved pine in original red, white,
and blue paint, 11½" x 57½", was $54,000.
The Bradlee-Fulton family mahogany tea
table with slides, Boston, circa 1750, 27" x
29" x 19", was $425,000 from Bernard and S.
Dean Levy, New York City, and it sold. Sarah
Bradlee Fulton owned the table originally.
She is known as the “Mother of the Boston
Tea Party.” It is said that she helped some
men, including her husband and brother,
at her house as they dressed as Native
Americans before the Boston Tea Party. She
was a leader for the Daughters of Liberty. It
is also reported that she carried a message
through enemy lines to George Washington.
The table was shown at the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston in the exhibition
Paul Revere’s
Boston
in 1975 and in Wendy Cooper’s
In
Praise of America
at the National Gallery of
Art in 1980.
This blockfront desk, 43½" x 38½" x 23¼", with
inlay on its lid and prospect drawer was made and
signed by Richard Walker, Boston, circa 1735, of
walnut, white pine, and oak. An article about this
desk is in the March 1995 issue of
The Magazine
Antiques
. Other pieces by Richard Walker are in
the collections of Winterthur and the Art Institute
of Chicago. It was $475,000 from Frank Levy of
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, New York City. It was on
hold for a museum.
This cherry serpentine chest
of drawers with freestanding
fluted columns, New London,
Connecticut, 1775-80, white pine
secondary wood, 34" high x 37"
wide (including top) x 19" deep,
was $60,000 from Nathan Liverant
& Son, Colchester, Connecticut. It
sold. The pair of carved Ayrshire
oxen with leather tails, probably
New England, 1875-1900, 9¼"
x 5½", was $5740. The marine
landscape of a ship in a storm and
survivors on the beach, 1860-85, oil
on canvas, 29
⅛
" x 33
⅜
" including
frame, was $25,000.
David Schorsch and Eileen Smiles asked $485,000
for this Punch figure by Samuel Robb, New York
(1851-1928), ex-collection Jeff and Anne Miller of
Baltimore. It is a first-rate piece of folk sculpture.
On the wall are portraits of members of the
Pierson family by Milton W. Hopkins (1789-1844),
priced at $150,000 for the three. The drop-leaf
table, 6' long, is made of solid bird’s-eye maple,
and it was $36,000. The railroad cane is from the
Barbara Johnson collection, and it sold. The Rhode
Island Windsor chair was painted in two colors—
it has a yellow seat—and was $22,500. The owl
carving from New York state was $45,000.
This portrait of a young woman in a pink dress
by Charles Burton, probably Virginia, 1830-
40, watercolor and pencil on paper, 10½" x 8",
was sold by David Schorsch and Eileen Smiles
of Woodbury, Connecticut. It is considered
a Burton masterpiece. It is in the tradition
of Italian Renaissance profile portraits and
would stand up as an evocative parallel, as Jean
Lipman might have pointed out.
Karl Ferdinand Wimar (1828-1862),
The
Abduction of Daniel Boone’s Daughter by the
Indians
, painted in Dusseldorf, circa 1853, oil
on canvas, 15½" x 18¾", depicts an incident
that took place on the Kentucky River. It
was $1.5 million from Alexander Gallery,
New York City. A preparatory sketch for the
painting is in the Saint Louis Art Museum.
This Native American trade hat, mid-
19th century, 7½" high, beaver felt, has
a mark of a Philadelphia hat maker
inside, silvered tin roundels mounted on
the sides, a metallic thread embroidered
eagle on the front with floral designs,
and grouse or pheasant feathers attached
to the back. It was $7500 from Maureen
Zarember of Tambaran, New York City,
who had sold a scale model of a nine-
passenger stagecoach by Ben Wagner,
made in Montana circa 1950, during the
first few minutes of the show.
Alexander Acevedo of Alexander Gallery
asked $385,000 for this small Thomas
Cole oil on paper mounted on panel,
Temple of the Sun and Moon
, circa 1832,
10¾" x 13
⅜
", and signed lower left “T.C.
/ Roma.”
It is a preparatory sketch for a
painting in the collection of the Detroit
Institute of Arts Museum. It sold.
Kelly Kinzle of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, asked
$68,000 for the sandstone mantel that came from
the Cochran homestead at Oak Dale Farm, Cadiz,
Ohio. It is signed and dated 1827 by the stone
carver William V.S. Roberts (1789-1859) of Short
Creek Township, Harrison County, Ohio. It is
64" high x 74" wide. The carved figure of the
greyhound, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1840-60, 19" high
x 45½" long x 16" wide, descended in the Farmer
family of Portsmouth, Ohio. It is believed to have
been carved by an ancestor who arrived there from
Virginia in the mid-19th century; it was $40,000.
The Lady Liberty weathervane, attributed to a New
York maker, circa 1880, copper and zinc with traces
of gilding and paint, 39" tall, was $145,000.