Marine Painting, Deed Box At

Carl Stinson Auction July 19

Auction To Feature Paul Howard Manship Items

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An important John Ford Clymer oil painting, “The Killers,” depicting a marine naval engagement, will be offered from a Chicago collection, 30 by 40 inches.

 

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A New England Queen Anne highboy from home of noted sculptor Paul Howard Manship, purchased circa 1920.

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A rare deed box from the First Baptist Church of Malden, Mass., belonging to Deacon Samuel Waite, fine polychrome swag decoration, will highlight the auction. The box bears the signature of  its decorator, William Paine of Boston.

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Fusuma screen (back panel, detail), Japanese, Kano school, Seventeenth Century, regularly on view in the second floor hallway.

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Stefano Arienti, “Seconda stanza cinese (Second Chinese Room),” 2006–07, one in a series of drawings inspired by photographs of the museum’s lost Buddha Room.

 

 

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MARINE PAINTING, DEED BOX AT CARL STINSON AUCTION JULY 19 w/3 cuts

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ESSEX, MASS. — Eighteenth Century French and Continental furniture from the Lanesville/Gloucester, Cape Anne, residence and studio of Paul Howard Manship will be offered Thursday, July 19, by Carl W. Stinson.

An important and rare deed box from The First Baptist Church of Malden belonging to Deacon Samuel Waite will also be offered. This box is exuberantly decorated with polychrome swag decoration, trailing strawberry borders and bird decoration. It also bears the painted signature of William Paine of Boston, who decorated the folk art masterpiece.

An important painting depicting a marine naval engagement by American artists John Ford Clymer will be offered from a Chicago collection.

Highlights include items from the estate of Daniel R. Childs of Darien, Conn., including a Cartier gold mounted dresser set, a mahogany cased Sheffield arborculturist’s set, circa 1835, and an American linen press, circa 1800.

Also from this estate will be a large assortment of paintings including Nineteenth and Twentieth Century paintings by noted American artists, a grouping of late Nineteenth Century circus posters, and seven paintings by Sandra Hitchcock of Paris.

From a Gloucester, Mass., home comes an important Russian silver tea tray, which according to oral tradition descended in the Imperial House of Hapsburg. From a Cambridge, Mass., home is an Sheraton seven-piece China Trade parlor suite.

Other offerings include items descending in the Leroy Grumman family (Grumman Aerospace Corp), including a pair of English Regency bookcases. Items removed from the Bayard family of Wilmington, Del., and their summer home in Dublin, N.H., includes a pair of Baltimore “D”-end tables attributed to John Needles, a mahogany Philadelphia fitted neoclassical work table and a Connecticut River Valley four-drawer chest.

Items consigned from Maine homes include a ten-tune cylinder music box by Langdorff and an ornate silver ink standish from the estate of Harvard professor Arthur Loeb.

Also to be offered will be a pair of Irish silhouettes from a Darien, Conn., estate, circa 1830, 35 lots of jewelry, including generous portions of gold jewelry, a parquetry inlaid bronze-mounted center table, a miniature blue enamel Tiffany & Co. travel clock, a pair of Continental Eighteenth Century silver candlesticks, and fine ceramics including soft paste and English transfer ware.

The auction will start at 5 pm. Preview will begin at noon on July 19 only. For information, 781-944-6490 or www.stinsonauctions.com.