The top lot, “Pandora” by Charles Allan Winter (American, 1869-1942), oil on canvas, 41 by 32 inches framed, achieved $115,000.
GENESEO, N.Y. — Cottone’s two-day November 29-30 auction featured 580 lots and totaled $1.6 million.
The leading lot, “Pandora” by Charles Allan Winter (American, 1869-1942) was exhibited at the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1909 and was recognized for its noteworthiness. “Charles A. Winter’s conscientious but strained ‘Pandora,’” a critic commented in Harper’s Weekly. The painting was sold through Montross Gallery, New York, to a Buffalo, N.Y., family and hung for many years in Kleinhans Music Hall. The bidding was fierce for “Pandora” and she ultimately sold to a bidder by phone for $115,000.
Other top lots included lamps by Tiffany Studios and Duffner & Kimberly, including a Tiffany Daffodil lamp, which totaled $63,600, and a fine and rare Duffner & Kimberly Poppy floor lamp, which earned $78,000.
Duffner & Kimberly Poppy floor lamp, bronze and leaded glass, 72 by 28 inches, sold for $78,000.
A John Stobart (British, 1929-2023) oil on canvas, “Straight Wharf, Nantucket,” was originally acquired from Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, Conn., and sold for $62,400. A Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900) painting, “Hastings on Hudson,” totaled $44,400. An unusual watercolor study of Pittsburgh, Penn., by Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926) brought $18,000.
Southwestern scenes also did well with an Edgar Payne (American, 1883-1947) mountain landscape in oil on artist board, selling to a bidder in the audience for $20,400, and a Birger Sandzén (Swedish, 1871-1954) “Study of Juniper, Pikes Peak, Colorado” earned $19,200.
“Straight Wharf, Nantucket” by John Stobart (British, 1929-2023), oil on canvas, 18 by 30 inches, earned $62,400.
The Americana category featured a United States Fire Company ceremonial parade fire hat, attributed to David Bustill Bowser (1820-1900), an African American freeman, which brought $12,600. Also sold was a US document signed by Benjamin Franklin, from the collection of Hugh Douglas Barclay, Pulaski, N.Y., former New York State Senator and US Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador. The document brought $13,200. A fine and rare Gamewell fire alarm indicator was sold to a bidder on the phone for $8,400. Bidders also took a liking to folk art carvings by Henry Leach (American, 1809-1885), which totaled $11,000.
Tiffany Studios Daffodil lamp on Indian patinated bronze base, 26 by 20 inches, earned $63,600.
Highlighting American and European clocks, a circa 1907 Guilmet French Industrial automaton car clock achieved $20,400, and a rare prototype Ithaca Skeleton Clock brought $12,000.
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