Eldred’s Summer Sale
July 28-30, Each session at 9:30 am
1483 Route 6A
East Dennis, Mass
508-385-3116
www.eldreds.com

EAST DENNIS, MASS. — Eldred’s annual Summer Sale, slated for July 28-30, will feature a group of Cape Cod and Provincetown Art colony works, from historic examples to pieces by contemporary artists. The auction will take place at the firm’s headquarters on Cape Cod.

Notable lots include “Nina,” a portrait by Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) ($15/20,000); “Headed Home,” a 36-by-24-inch oil on canvas by Anne Packard (b 1933) ($20/25,000); “Cape Cod Patchwork Co. Inc.,” a 1975 commissioned work by Ralph E. Cahoon Jr (1910-1982) ($15/20,000); and “Whoa” by Karl Knaths (1891-1971) ($10/15,000). The 1966 large-scale work, 40 by 50 inches, is illustrated in the Paul Rosenberg & Co.’s 1967 exhibition catalog and the Krannert Art Museum’s “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,” 1968.

The anticipated top lots are two white-line woodblock prints by Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956): “Provincetown Waterfront” and “My Wharf Studio” (both $35/45,000). Lazzell, born in a West Virginia farming community, traveled to Europe and eventually settled in Provincetown, where she was a founding member of the Provincetown Printers, who experimented with the white-line technique seen in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

“It’s always a privilege to handle a Lazzell woodblock,” said Joshua Eldred, president of the firm. “Because they were only done in small runs, they are incredibly rare and desirable. The two Lazzells, and the other core group of Provincetown material in the sale, came from the estate of Hilary Bamford, who actually lived in Provincetown and was active in its civic and arts communities.”

Other highlighted paintings include two portraits, one of a Sumo wrestler and one of an African tribal chief, by Alexandre Yakovlev ($15/20,000 and $10/15,000), a view of Narragansett Bay, circa 1880, by Alfred Thompson Bricher ($18/22,000) and “Wellfleet 1942,” one of only five known pastels by Edwin Walter Dickinson (1891-1978) ($12/15,000).

Also included is a rare Nineteenth Century view of the East Chamber, Peter Cushing house, Hingham, Mass., 1878, by Ella Emory ($40/60,000). It is the companion painting to one illustrated in Little By Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little (E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1984). Pieces in the Little collection were purchased from Matthew Cushing in 1957 when Fletcher Little visited the Cushing homestead. Cushing kept this painting because it had the two family cats, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, in the picture.

The sale will also include American and European decorative arts, antique furniture, Americana, Oriental rugs, large selections of Nantucket baskets, Chinese Export, sporting art and more.

The top furniture lot is a Newport Chippendale bonnet-top chest-on-chest, circa 1780 ($10/15,000). An Eighteenth Century oxbow chest, believed to have once belonged to Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, a sister of President John F. Kennedy, carries the same estimate, and a rare Chippendale tray-top lowboy, probably Pennsylvania, circa 1775 ($8/10,000).

Other highlights include a Pablo Picasso terre de faïence platter “Hibou Mat” ($12/18,000), a T.&E. Rhodes floor-standing regulator clock in a richly figured mahogany case ($10/12,000), a pair of late Eighteenth Century English pocket pistols by Durs Egg, gunmaker to King George IV ($6/8,000) and a life-size swan-form garden planter carved from pine and with traces of gilding ($15/20,000).

The sale also features a diverse selection of property from the India House, New York, including the Chinese lacquered wood Buddha that graced the entrance to the club and whose belly members would rub upon departure for good luck. ($2,5/3,500). Other interesting lots include a “Basic Commodities of Commerce” specimen cabinet, donated to the club by James Farrell Sr, president of US Steel from 1911 to 1932 ($1,5/2,500) and a monumental Liverpool pitcher celebrating Ireland, with a satyr-form spout ($600/800). Many of the pieces included in the sale were listed in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Collection at India House, published in 1935.

The sale is a live auction with online, absentee and phone bidding available. The firm is tentatively planning on limited in-person bidding, in compliance with Massachusetts Covid-19 guidelines. A sale preview will be conducted in the days leading up to the auction. For additional information, www.eldreds.com or 508-385-3116.

Live auction with in-person, absentee, phone and online bidding available.

Preview July 27 from 10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and by appointment.

Complete catalog online at www.eldreds.com.

Alexandre Yakovlev Norton Crock with Stag Decoration Edward Henry Potthast
Joslin Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Byron Bruffee Black Duck
Chinese Export Rockefeller Pattern Hot Water Plates
Herter Brothers Music Cabinet
Ralph E. Cahoon, Jr.
Attr. Titcomb & Bellamy
Early American Imprint T. & E. Rhodes RegulatorAnne Packard
Chippendale Tray-Top Lowboy Ella Emory
Pike & Sons Barometer Picasso Ceramics
A.T. Bricher
Deerfi eld Highboy
Heriz Rug Circa 1880 Life-Size Swan Planter Blanche Lazzell

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