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Tiffany Studios stained glass window highlighted the first session, selling for $114,000.

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The first session of Arts and Crafts opened with this exceptional Teco vase by Hugh Garden achieving $57,000.

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Mexican painter Miguel Covarrubias’ gouache, “Fisherman — Bali,” went for $72,000 during the second session.

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A rare Roycroft china cabinet with leaded glass doors, fetched $31,200.

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TREADWAY/TOOMEY POST DEC. 3 AUCTION w/4 cuts

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CHICAGO, ILL. — The Treadway/Toomey Gallery’s Twentieth Century Art & Design auction was held on December 3. The sale was comprised of three sessions, and showed an incredible group of objects bringing outstanding prices.

An important Tiffany Studios stained glass window highlighted the first session of the auction. This exceptional piece, depicting a detailed and vibrant landscape scene, achieved $114,000. An additional Tiffany Studios window, featuring a Wisteria motif and commissioned in 1933, fetched $51,000.

The first session of Arts and Crafts opened vigorously, with an exception Teco vase by Hugh Garden achieving $57,000 against a high estimate of $20,000. Another piece of Teco, a tall vase by Fernand Moreau with an unusual prairie look, fetched $13,200. Several pieces of Newcomb sold well, including a shouldered vase with a moonlit landscape, which made $8,400, and a tapered landscape vase by Anna Francis Simpson that realized $13,200.

An early Newcomb College vase, with a carved and painted floral design in a slender flaring form, brought $15,600. An exceptional Pewabic vase in a large shouldered form achieved $5,700. Several pieces of George Ohr were offered, including a vase with a rare splattered glaze that topped its presale estimate and sold for $6,600. Several bidders vied for an unusual Shearwater vase, featuring incised cats under a green matt glaze. This vase sold for $7,200, more than six times it high estimate.

Some Daum pieces were also very popular with bidders, including a tall vase with colorful daffodils, and a vase with an organic cameo design in multiple shades of purple. The two vases sold for $10,800 and $8,400, respectively. A Loetz vase with applied silver overlay fetched $4,800, and a large and impressive Amphora portrait vase achieved $15,600.

The furniture offered included many fine Stickley pieces, highlighted by a rare Gustav Stickley piano bench in oak, which sold for $24,000. A single-door book cabinet, also by Gustav Stickley, exceeded its presale estimate and made $16,800. A book table by L&JG Stickley, in excellent original condition, achieved $10,800.

Other sought-after furnishing included a rare Roycroft china cabinet with leaded glass doors, which fetched $31,200 and a Roycroft dining table in mahogany, which sold for $10,800. Several pieces of Old Hickory also fared well, with a rare recliner reaching, $6,600.

The second session included American and European paintings and sculptures. Among the featured lots was an important gouache by Mexican painter Miguel Covarrubias. Titled “Fisherman — Bali.” The painting went for $72,000 against an estimate of $20/30,000. An oil on canvas by Mitchell Siporin, “Yank in Algiers,” made $18,000. Siporin worked as a WPA artist, and has been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

A limited edition piece by American artist Victor Vasarely achieved $5,100. An important screenprint of Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol garnered much attention. Signed by both Jagger and Warhol, and dating from 1975, the print sold for $66,000. Another featured lot included a lithograph by David Hockney. Signed, dated and numbered, the lithograph of Hockney’s friend Celia Birtwell fetched $22,800.

The final session of the sale, 1950s/Modern and Art Deco, featured fine examples of artist/architect-designed furniture and decorative arts from the period. This session was highlighted by a Paul Evans dining group, which included a rare bar cabinet in sculpted bronze and a set of ten dining chairs. The cabinet, signed and in original condition, went for $24,000. The set of chairs, which included two armchairs and eight side chairs, quadrupled their presale estimate to achieve $39,000. An additional dining set by Vernon Panton also attracted much attention. The Pantonova set, which included a table and six chairs in chrome-plated steel wire, made $7,200.

All prices include a 20 percent buyer’s premium. For more information, www.treadwaygallery.com or 513-321-6742.