Boston Chippendale cherry
double serpentine chest of drawers, circa 1770, $92,000.
Pook &
Pook Sale Grosses $1.4 Million
DOWNINGTON, PENN. -- A record number of absentee and telephone
bids in conjunction with an overflow crowd contributed to a great
sale at Pook & Pook on Saturday, May 17.
Oil on board by Pennsylvania folk artist David Ellinger,
$31,625.
The auction grossed an impressive $1.4 million from the 600-plus
lots offered. Leading the way was a Boston Chippendale cherry
double serpentine chest of drawers, circa 1770, that soared past
the $30/40,000 presale estimates and selling at $92,000,
including premium.
Other top lots included a John F. Francis oil on canvas still
life depicting a wine and cognac bottle with filled glasses and
biscuits and cheese that hammered down at $43,125, an early
uncataloged Indian pot brought $41,400, a Russian landscape by I.
Tsirigoti went well over estimates at $25,875, and a Mahantongo
Valley painted chest realized $25,300.
A painting by the recently deceased Pennsylvania folk artist
David Ellinger shot past the $6/9,000 presale estimates when it
sold for $31,625.
Prices include the 15 percent buyer's premium.
