February 3, 2025 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Hand-Written Declaration Of Independence Makes $2.47 Million — Christie’s Americana Week Totals $29.5 Million
    February 3, 2025

    NEW YORK CITY — Christie’s Americana Week results were strong, with four sales January 22-24 offering more than 550 lots, more than 475 of which gaveled down successfully for a total of $29,566,352.

  • Peter Mavris’s Hampton Show: Five Down, Three To Go
    February 3, 2025

    HAMPTON, N.H. — If you’re looking for the ordinary, you can skip Peter Mavris’s Hampton show. But if you’re looking for out-of-the ordinary early antiques, don’t miss it.

  • Q&A: Bryan R. Just
    February 3, 2025

    On October 1, the Yale University Art Gallery welcomed Bryan R. Just as its newest Molly and Walter Bareiss curator of Ancient Art.

  • Classical Studies – American Classical Furniture, 1810-40: Regional Identities In The Schrimsher Collection
    February 3, 2025

    HUNTSVILLE, ALA. — James Orville Schrimsher (1926-2001) did not mince words when he voiced his opinion on Randall “Randy” and Kimberly Schrimsher’s fledgling interest in Classical American furniture, “I wouldn’t give you a nickel to haul that to the dump.

  • Eddy Family Chairs Lead Millhiser Americana Collection For Freeman’s | Hindman
    February 3, 2025

    NEW YORK CITY — Freeman’s | Hindman’s first furniture sale at its new New York City gallery featured 28 lots from the collection of Bessie and E. Ross Millhiser, who, working in the 1930s and 40s with such notable dealers as Israel Sack, Joseph Kindig and Ginsburg & Levy, assembled a stellar collection of Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture from Philadelphia, Newport, Boston and the South.

  • Burchfield Watercolor Tops Sanford L. Smith Collection Sale At Stair
    February 3, 2025

    HUDSON, N.Y. — Some legacies transcend lifetimes. Stair Galleries aided in this philosophy with its sale of The Collection of Sanford L. Smith (1939-2024), conducted on January 30. Smith, a beloved and well-known face in the antiques world, was the owner of Sanford L. Smith + Associates, head of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) from 1979-2024 — along with many other internationally recognized art fairs — and simply “loved collecting, amassing a large and eclectic collection that represented his interests and personal aesthetic.”

  • Local History Leads At Brunk
    February 3, 2025

    ASHEVILLE, N.C. — On January 29, Brunk Auctions auctioned 186 lots from the collection of Dr Carole Wahler of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost doubling its high estimate, a rare signed needlework sampler from 1824 became the highest-priced lot in the sale when it sold to an institution for $49,200, including buyer’s premium ($15/25,000).

  • Locally Important Ammi Phillips Portrait Farms Win At Hyde Park
    February 3, 2025

    POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Hyde Park Country Auctions offered 444 lots from the Asa and Jean Beckwith estate (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.) as well as other partial estates throughout the Hudson Valley area and Connecticut in its January 26 Country Americana & Primitive Sale.

  • Discontinued Astro Boy Toy Rockets Past Expectations At Landry Pop
    February 3, 2025

    LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — On January 28, Landry Pop took us back to Twentieth Century Japan with its Shōwa Era Icons, Curated by Joshua Fraser auction, which offered 200 lots of collectibles from the golden age of toy design selected by Fraser, Saucony’s lead designer and a lifelong collector of vintage Japanese toys.

  • Nasturtium Lamp Lights Up Fontaine’s Fine & Decorative Auction
    February 3, 2025

    PITTSFIELD, MASS. — The top lot of Fontaine’s Auction Gallery’s February 1-2 Fine & Decorative Arts auction was a circa 1905 Tiffany Studios Nasturtium table lamp, sold on the first day.

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