Freeman’s & Hindman – The Donald F. Moylan, M.D. Collection, Part II
March 14, 2024 | Cincinnati
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CINCINNATI, OHIO — More than 600 lots of choice American furniture, folk and decorative art, including marine paintings and maps from the Donald F. Moylan collection and a large selection of rare Ohio stoneware from the Robert and Nancy Treichler collection will hit the block over two days on March 14-15 at the Cincinnati saleroom of Freeman’s | Hindman. Absentee and phone bidding will be available, with online bidding via Hindman’s Digital Bid Room, as well as LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable.

The March 14 session includes 200-pus lots from the Moylan collection, featuring a number of paintings of Great Lakes and other sailing vessels, maps from the Sixteenth –Eighteenth Centuries, formal and country furniture and decorative smalls and other folk art. These lots represent the second and final portion of Moylan’s collection following a November 2023 auction, which garnered widespread bidding from collectors and institutions nationwide.

Items of note in this offering include a whalebone ditty basket, a scrimshaw-decorated sewing caddy, portraits of sailing vessels by Joseph B. and William S. Smith, James Buttersworth, Antonio Jacobsen and other noted marine artists, as well as sailing vessel paintings by folk artists such as the elusive “N. Young” of Cleveland, Ohio. Folk portraits by William Kennedy, Jacob Maentel, James Sharples and others, as well as a group of formal and painted furniture — most in untouched condition — are also on offer.

The March 15 session includes a wide-ranging selection of weathervanes, furniture, folk art portraits and decorative art from various consignors, and is anchored by more than 100 pieces of Ohio stoneware from the Nan and Bob Treichler collection.

During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Summit County, Ohio, was ground zero for stoneware production in the Buckeye state, and for almost 50 years the Treichlers collected and researched the makers of this and adjacent counties. The lots offered on March 15 represent their favorite pieces; many are rare, and several are the only known examples for a maker. Virtually all are illustrated in one or more of the three books Bob Treichler authored about northeastern Ohio stoneware.

Stoneware production in Ohio was no different than in other areas where these largely utilitarian wares were thrown, though, like other regions, the potters here had their own design motifs, shapes and peculiarities. A signature Ohio form, the so-called “harvest” jug, was made in many areas in the northern part of the state, and the Treichlers collected many rare examples, several of which are included in the auction.

A choice example features a joyfully dancing young girl in bright cobalt over a white Bristol-style glaze, with floral motifs and stenciling for the pottery of Andrew Dustman of Berlin Center, in Mahoning County.

Another important collection included in the March 15 auction comes from a prominent Rhode Island family descended from Sullivan Dorr (1778-1858), an early China Trade merchant. Dorr built a Federal home in Providence, which remains a historic landmark in the city today. Lots from this collection include a diminutive inlaid Federal sideboard, a Classical giltwood girandole mirror and, naturally, important examples of Chinese export porcelain, highlighted by a famille rose dinner service, new to the market after having been crated in the basement of the residence, likely since its import by Dorr himself.

The offerings on March 15 also include a selection of scarce to rare Liverpool creamware pitchers and mugs of American Interest. Even before the Revolutionary War, English potters recognized that there was an American market for their wares. After the Revolution, pitchers, mugs, bowls, and other forms depicting the likenesses of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and other patriots, were imported in quantity. The auction includes examples with several of these American heroes.

Rounding out the March 15 auction are 60-plus lots of occupational shaving mugs from the collection of the late Jim Carpenter of Montague, N.J. Carpenter is best known for his rediscovery of the ceramics of George Ohr, the “Mad Potter” of Biloxi, Miss., but his personal interest was in barbershop collectibles, and he amassed one of the great collections of painted shaving mugs. For information about these sales, contact Leah Vogelpohl, specialist, American furniture, folk and decorative art (leahvogelpohl@hindmanauctions.com. Freeman’s | Hindman is at 5030 Oaklawn Drive. For more information, www.hindmanauctions.com

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Left to right: A Ten-Gallon Stoneware Keg with Floral Basket Decoration, Atwater, Ohio, 19th Century; American School, Early 20th Century, Clipper Ship Midnight off Cape Horn; A Chinese Export Canton Bird and Butterfly Parcel Gilt Porcelain Dinner Service
Andrew Taggart | 267.414.1225 ataggart@freemansauction.com Philadelphia
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