Date: Mon 26-Jun-1995

Publication: Ant

Author: SHIRLE

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$13,800 'SCARLET EMPRESS' AT VINTAGE POSTER ART SALE

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- On Saturday, May 27, a packed room of bidders, consignors,

and onlookers watched 482 lots of movie memorabilia auctioned with a 15

percent buyer's premium for $302,737.50 at the 3rd annual vintage poster art

auction. This year the auction was held at the same time as Cinevent '95, and

will be there again next year due to a positive response from buyers. 22 lots

have already been consigned.

After the smoke settled, 424 lots had sold at the reserve or higher; with the

top bid going, as expected, to the beautiful ``Scarlet Empress'' one-sheet (27

inches by 41 inches), for $13,800.

Other highlights included: a "Things to Come" lobby card set, which sold for

$5,750; a "Painted Veil" one-sheet, which brought $4,945; a "Red Hot Riding

Hood" one-sheet, which achieved $8,050; a "The Exile" one-sheet, which

realized $5,175; a "Green Pastures," two lobby cards, which garnered $2,300; a

"Jungle Bells" one-sheet, which fetched $3,450; a "Bride of Frankenstein"

lobby card, which drew $4,025; a "Les Mysteres du Ciel" French one-sheet,

which sold for $4,025; a "The Fireman" six-sheet, which brought $8,625; and a

"Wizard of Oz" title card, which achieved $4,025.

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BUYS DEYERLE COLLECTION VIRGINIA SIDE CHAIRS,

TALL CASE CLOCK FROM SOTHEBY'S

RICHMOND, VA. -- A pair of side chairs and a tall-case clock made in Virginia

during the early part of the Nineteenth Century have been added to the

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection. The Richmond institution paid $18,400

for the chairs estimated at $15/20,000, and $57,500 for the clock.

"It is important that Virginia-made pieces of this rare level of quality

remain here in Virginia for all our citizens to enjoy and take pride in," said

Katharine C. Lee, director of the museum.

The items were purchased at a recent Sotheby's auction in Charlottesville,

Va., of an important regional collection owned by Dr and Mrs Henry P. Deyerle

of Harrisonburg, Va. The auction netted a total of $4.6 million.

The side chairs, which lack their original upholstery, were crafted in

Northern Virginia, possible in Winchester, around 1810, according to Dr David

Park Curry, the museum's curator of American arts. They are made of carved and

inlaid mahogany, with yellow pine secondary wood. Five such chairs are known

to exist today, Mr Curry says. Two are in a private collection and a third is

in the collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in

Winston-Salem, N.C.

The clock stands eight feet four inches tall, and it works were made about

1820 by German-born craftsman Jacob Danner (1763-1850), who lives in

Middletown, Va. The case is made of cherry and maple, with a painted dial and

wooden works. "J. Danner" is inscribed on the clock face.

The two side chairs are slightly abstracted from a plate in Thomas Sheraton's

well known English design source, "The Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer's

Drawing-Book," published in 1793. The museum is exploring non-intrusive

reupholstery for the chairs that incorporates techniques recently developed by

furniture conservators, Mr Curry says.

The tall-case clock "embodies the energetic appropriation and modification of

urban design ideas by rural craftsmen in Virginia," with its simple painted

metal face set in a towering cherry and maple case that is vigorously

embellished with carving and turnings, commented Mr Curry.

The clock will be displayed in the museum's American Art Galleries beginning

this summer. Display of the chairs will await decisions on reupholstery.

The museum is on the Boulevard at Grove Avenue. The galleries are open Tuesday

through Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm.