?> January, 2024 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

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  • Ford Thunderbird & Wehsener Porcelain Service Lead Michaan’s January Gallery Auction
    January 30, 2024

    ALAMEDA, CALIF. — Michaan’s Auctions January Gallery Auction, which took place on Friday, January 19, realized a strong sell-through rate as Michaan’s Auctions orchestrated another successful sale for its cosigners.

  • Mary Frances Whitfield, 1947-2023, Self-Taught Artist
    January 30, 2024

    CANTON, OHIO — Over the past 30 years, self-taught artist Mary Frances Whitfield gained recognition for her small, mythic watercolors depicting America’s tragic legacy of slavery in the South. Born in 1947, in segregated Birmingham, Ala., Whitfield would listen to her grandmother’s stories which lead to her determined focus on slavery throughout her artistic career, even at a time when her ancestors did not want to be reminded of their past.

  • Across The Block
    January 30, 2024

    Fine and decorative arts are in the spotlight in this week’s Across The Block, but the top price was claimed by a British silver coin. The 1663 Charles II Silver Pattern “Petition” Crown made a world record when it sold by Heritage for $960,000. Another record was set for the sale of an early Van Briggle Despondency vase, which stretched to $100,200. Other notable art lots show the diversity of the category, including a Paul Sawyer oil landscape, an Italian Old Master illustration, a pair of emerald glass decanters and a porcelain horse from Herend. Read on for these stories and more.

  • American Antiquities Favored In Forsythes’ Jan 21 Auction
    January 30, 2024

    CINCINNATI, OHIO — Forsythes’ Auctions presented a Large Antiques Auction on Sunday, January 21, offering items from estates and collections. In total, the sale offered more than 400 lots of folk art, collectibles, advertising items, textiles, military items and furniture.

  • Stedman Posts World Auction Record For Flora Whitney Portrait
    January 30, 2024

    TAMPA BAY, FLA. — More Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney estate material came to auction on January 20 as Richard Stedman Estate Services featured fine and decorative art from the collection of the Whitney Museum founder and great granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt from her landmark Old Westbury, Long Island, N.Y., studio.

  • Historic Delhi House Comes To Auction By Schillaci & Schultis
    January 30, 2024

    EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. — The Historic Delhi House, Helen Penfield Adair estate, untouched for generations, was for the first time offered in a sale conducted by Edward Schillaci and John Shultis of Two Feathers Antiques & Auction Services on January 20 at the Old Masonic Lodge. The sale provided an opportunity to acquire many antiquities, art and collectibles, and just about every category was represented.

  • Sarasota’s Auction Weekend Offers Surprise Lots On Both Days
    January 30, 2024

    SARASOTA, FLA. — Sarasota Estate Auction’s January 20-21 sale, which featured art from the late Twentieth Century all the way back to Old Master works, saw robust action on both days. Leading the sale on the second day was an Old Master painting cataloged as by the Rembrandt School, which was estimated $300/600 and started at an opening bid of $200.

  • Period Furniture Finds Favor At Wooten & Wooten
    January 30, 2024

    CAMDEN, S.C. — Wooten & Wooten rang in the New Year with its January 13 Winter Estates & Collections Auction, which showcased 523 lots ranging from period English and American wooden furniture to Indigenous artifacts to decorative housewares. Interest proved high with 80 percent of lots sold.

  • Early American Glass & Furniture Entice Pook & Pook Bidders
    January 29, 2024

    DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — Pook & Pook’s first sale of 2024, the two-day Americana & International Auction, closed on January 19 after presenting more than 730 lots in total. With a 97 percent sell-through rate, the sale achieved $1,498,027, exceeding the sale’s high estimate by more than $400,000.

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