Also notable at Fontaine's was Tiffany lighting and the highly anticipated art glass collection of Greg Giampapa, from which many of the lots routinely tripled presale estimates.
A Cahoon-like painting by Elizabeth Mumford of mermaids, "Mermaids Just Want to Have Fun," in a Woodman shellwork frame, fetched $9,200 from a Cape buyer.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum, a fascinating interpreter of the history of global whaling, is celebrating its centennial this year with a grand exhibition of the works of native son William Bradford.
An exhibition of Chinese bronzes, which demonstrates why the Chinese are called the "masters of the mold," will run September 19 to November 1 at E&J Frankel, Ltd.
"After the unbearable heat last year we knew that the show would not survive if we did not do something, so we bit the bullet and ordered-up some air-conditioning," Trish McElroy told us.
Paul Davis, a Maine antiques show promoter best known for his Festival at Union for the last 20 years, has begun a limited number of upscale indoor shows.
Pieces from the Brown Brothers Harriman collection of furniture, ranging from early American and Federal to Hepplewhite, find a home among the important architectural details of the old Seaman's Bank Headquarters....
In pursuit of his goal to be accepted as a "fine artist," around 1900 Remington began a series of deeply personal canvases that most interestingly explored the technical and aesthetic challenges of creating...
Auctioneer Ron Bourgeault called the work "as fine as any marine painting by a Westerner of this [time]," and further stated that it is "considered to be one of the most important trade paintings of the period."
Bidding was lively, sparking from the telephone to the desk to the room, despite the humidity, with a sale total in the high estimate range of $802,348.
No rdf_Descriptions went unsold among more than 300 lots of Kennedy memorabilia at Hantman's - bidders from Ireland, France, Australia, Israel, Germany, Mexico and Malaysia participated.