October 31, 2023 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Robert E. Shaw Jr, 72, Folk Art Curator, Scholar & Editor
    October 31, 2023

    SHELBURNE, VT. — The family of Robert Ellsworth Shaw Jr sadly announces his passing on October 16, 2023, in Owings Mills, Md. He is survived by his wife Nancy Meigs, whom he married in Shelburne, Vt., in 1985 where they resided until last year when symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson’s Disease emerged, necessitating his retirement to Maryland.

  • Million Dollar Auction At Clarke Auction Gallery
    October 31, 2023

    LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Clarke Auction Gallery’s Spooktacular estate auction on October 15 had no single high-estimate item to push the auction to a grand total of just over $1 million. Instead, it was frighteningly easy how a solid selection of notable and important works across the board from fine art to jewelry and more drove the auction.

  • Across The Block
    October 31, 2023

    Speaking to the season, witches, cats and dolls were among the featured highlights at auctions this week. DuMouchelles realized $27,900 for Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita’s “Cat Master;” a 1693 affidavit by a Salem Witch Trial magistrate flew to $15,000 at New England Auctions and Withington bidders played with a rare and early Jumeau doll to $18,290. Lacing up more than $1,000 was a vintage Converse sneaker store display rack that Buzz Hesse sold and an exceptionally large and rare German ribbon onionskin marble rolled out the door for $19,200. Coins, fine art, Asian porcelain and art glass round out this week’s pick of recent auctions. Read on for more details.

  • Book Review: Americana Insights
    October 31, 2023

    Scholarship on American folk art and traditional Americana lacked a dedicated platform after the Fall of 2008, when the American Folk Art Museum’s Folk Art magazine (also titled The Clarion), concluded a run it had enjoyed since Winter 1971. A new journal — Americana Insights — has stepped into the void, providing an essential forum for the field. Through richly illustrated content in both essays and short-form, the mission of Americana Insights is “to inspire, extend and enhance appreciation and knowledge of traditional American folk art and Americana from the Colonial era to the early Twentieth Century.”

  • International Audience Pays Court To Sworders
    October 31, 2023

    STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — On October 17, Sworders presented nearly 400 lots of Modern and Contemporary Art. With nearly 70 percent of the lots selling, the auction tallied $918,080 (£788,593), including a five percent VAT.

  • Blue Box Gallery Sale Makes A Rendezvous With History
    October 31, 2023

    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — Blue Box Gallery opened up a treasure trove for antiques enthusiasts on October 19, presenting a range of items in its Antique Autumn Showcase, a live, in-person and simulcast online auction. Topping the list of treasures was an Eighteenth Century slant top red mulberry William and Mary Desk, described as one of the finest Southern antiques ever discovered. It sold for $9,375.

  • Bidders Harvest Early Maps, Fine Art & MCM Decor At Everard Sale
    October 31, 2023

    SAVANNAH, GA. — Everard’s October 17-18 auction was led by a Peter Gordon (1697-1740) Map of Savannah, 1734, which rose to $80,000. This rare map represents the first known printed view of Savannah, Ga., and illustrates Georgia colony founder General James E. Oglethorpe’s original plan of the city. Only 12 such maps are known to exist in public museums, with a few others in private hands.

  • Woody Fills Auction With Art Glass, Miniature Lamps & More
    October 31, 2023

    DOUGLASS, KAN. — It was art glass, Wave Crest and more when Woody Auction assembled 363 lots to be offered online and live in the firm’s auction hall on October 14. An automated online-only auction was conducted the day prior, October 13, consisting of 244 total lots of art glass, cut glass, porcelain and more.

  • Enough Snuff? Tremont Sells Out With Bistany Bottle Collection
    October 31, 2023

    SUDBURY, MASS. — On October 22, Tremont Auctions presented more than 550 snuff bottles from the collection of Mitchell Bistany, who began collecting them beginning in the 1960s. The majority of the bottles were Chinese, with a few Japanese examples included, in a broad range of material, from carved hardstones and jades to cloisonne, glass, porcelain and cinnabar.

  • Turner Auctions: A Tale Of Two Collections
    October 31, 2023

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — October 21 proved to be a day of contrasts for Turner Auctions & Appraisals, which presented two named single-owner collections in back-to-back auctions. First up, with 154 lots of Americana and English furniture and decorative arts, was the Davis, Calif., estate of Marian Hymel, who had been an antiques dealer in Los Gatos, Calif. The sale was more than 70 percent sold by lot and sold to buyers in the United States, Canada and Australia.

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      Flying Pig Auctions – The Estate Of Matthew J. King Phase II: Primitive, Country & Diverse Antiques

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      George Cole Auctions – Selling Estate Contents From Several Hudson Valley, NY Estates Along With Select Others
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      Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association – Summer Antique Show in Falmouth
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      Pegasus Antique & Estate Auctions – Important Father’s Day Silver & Oriental Antique Estate Auction
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      Heritage Auctions – Liberty & Legacy: 250 Years of the American Spirit Signature Auction

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