Date: Fri 16-Jul-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: GWARD

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Shute Offers Americana At June Event

By Rita Easton

BROCKTON, MASS. -- A June 19 Americana Estate auction held at Shute Auction

Gallery attracted a full house in competition for the 550 lots offered. The

main consignor was the estate of D. A. Reagan of Falmouth, Mass., per order of

S. Mitchell, vice president at Northern Trust Bank of Florida. Items consisted

of country antique furniture, needlework and tinsel pictures, bronzes, a

Willard banjo clock, fine pottery and porcelains, and much more. A gross of

$200,000 was realized.

A pair of superb porcelain figures attributed to Chantilly, a prince and a

princess in beautifully patterned costumes, standing 18 inches high, garnered

$5,375. A Leeds covered tureen with eagle head handles and finial, 14 by nine

inches, reached $3,470; a turn of the century walnut table with carved sea

shells and arabesques, signed "Shaw of Cambridge, Massachusetts," made $3,360;

and a pair of Queen Anne wing chairs, needing reupholstering, made by

Kittinger, sold at $1,735.

A Nineteenth Century carved wood folk art heron, 30 inches high, went out at

$1,510; and three oils on panel by H. Dudley Murphy, all town scenes measuring

12 by 16 inches, brought $3,470 each for two, and $2,520 for the third; a

Nineteenth Century oil painting of children outside a schoolhouse, painted by

J. Worms in 1857, with dimensions of 18 by 23 1/2 inches, achieved $5,600; a

P. J. Mene bronze of a lioness and crocodile, 14 inches long, garnered $2,410;

a bronze signed A. Cain of a tiger with cubs and a peacock, 24 inches long,

sold at $4,000; and a bronze of a standing jester holding a marionette, 25 1/2

inches high, by G. Gueyton, made $4,490.

A small mourning needlework in memory of a ten year old boy reached $1,455.

The memorial was embroidered with a small ship and the words, "Sacred to the

memory of Mr Daniel Hawks, who was killed on board the ship Cynthia in New

York on October 18, 1849 age 10 years, 8 months and 9 days. We parted on earth

to meet in heaven and live forever. Wrought by Abbe S. Richards, Lancaster,

Mass."

A memorial to the death of George Washington, reverse painted on glass, with

blue border, black ground, and a gold monument, inscribed "D. B. December 15,

1799, AE 68," with an image of Washington with willows on each side, sold at

$2,800; an antique urning sampler embroidered on linen, with the words

"Charlotte weeping," showing a girl seated beneath a weeping willow tree,

crying, beneath which was embroidered "Jean Mean, the daughter of John and

Mary Mean, made this sampler in Shippensburg in Miss Ruth Kotches School, in

the thirteenth year of my age, August 30, 1817," reached $3,336.

A Nineteenth Century gray stoneware crock, Number 6, with blue stenciled

decoration of an eagle, and signed "James Hamilton Company, Greensboro, Pa.,"

and "Eagle Pottery," brought $2,245 for the 16 inches high lot; a mustard

green antique blanket chest with two drawers sold at $2,350; an antique tiger

maple five drawer chest reached $1,455; an antique pine two piece pewter

dresser made $2,350; a small antique pine oval dinette table realized $785; an

antique pine tavern table reached $895; and a one drawer maple stand with

tapered legs was purchased at $615.

An octagonal candlestand with stenciling sold at $1,010; an antique oval tea

caddy in tortoiseshell brought $1,905; a mahogany tea caddy inlaid with

seashells fetched $670; a pair of small tulip shaped planters in lead reached

$420; a pair of antique Windsor chairs with floral painting on the crest rail

sold at $895; and an antique Canton tureen with underplate went out at $725.

Prices quoted above reflect a required 12 percent buyer's premium.