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Northeast auction general sale review

Review and Gallery Photos by R. Scudder Smith

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Three days, 1,818 lots, a one-owner sale, and $6.29 million later, Ronald Bourgeault and Northeast Auctions completed another marathon of sales at the Radisson Hotel on October 26–28. It all got off to a start on Friday morning with 105 lots from the second part of the Florence Durfee Dedham Pottery collection where an Elephant and Baby pattern plate, 10 inches in diameter, went for $2,438, and a Wild Rose pattern plate with impressed rabbit, 83/8  inches in diameter, brought $5,104.

A Hampshire Pottery matte glaze oil lamp base, circa 1905–10, molded with elongated tulip stems flanked by curved leaves, 5¾ inches high, sold for $2,320. A bid of $5,104 took a Marblehead Pottery matte glazed vase dating from the early Twentieth Century, rolled rim and painted with panels of grapevines bearing grapes in green and peach, 8½ inches high. An American Arts and Crafts patinated metal and slag glass Grapevine pattern lamp, possibly Riviere Studios, early Twentieth Century, 22½ inches high, sold for $3,712.

On Saturday, following the sale of the Bisnoff collection, American furniture, paintings, folk art and accessories crossed the block. Among the paintings, an American primitive of a standing child in a coral dress with dog and tack hammer, oil on canvas, 34 by 26 inches, dated 1838, sold for $7,540, and a New England fancy painted two-drawer blanket chest in pine, ochre and red decoration, 39 inches wide, went for $30,160.

Three weathervanes came up in a row, starting with a full-bodied copper fish, gilt surface, 20 inches long, for $5,510, followed by a folk art carved rooster vane in white paint, 33 inches long and 22 inches high, formerly in the Barenholtz collection, for $3,480, and a large American full-bodied copper steer with gilded surface, 20 inches high and 33 inches long, Cushing & White, for $13,340.

Thirteen mural decorated wall panels by Rufus Porter, removed from the Adams Female Academy, East Derry, N.H., were offered in two lots, but were passed when a bid of $10,000 could not be gotten. Several lots following, the Dr Ftitz Talbot collection of A. Elmer Crowell bird carvings was offered, 52 lots, and lots of interest was shown in this part of the sale. “The birds were early and rare,” auctioneer Ron Bourgeault said, and the prices bore that out. This part of the sale was covered in a special review, with photos, that appeared in the November 9 issue of Antiques and The Arts Weekly, page 43.

A folk portrait of Major David Galliday of Virginia, circa 1790, oil on canvas measuring 26 by 32 inches, the stretcher with old label identifying the sitter, brought $4,640, and two pewter salts attributed to William Will, Philadelphia, 1764–1798, 2½ inches tall and 25/8 inches in diameter, went for $2,900.

Lot 976, an American primitive portrait of a sea captain’s son and daughter with dog, ship in the background, oil on canvas, 28 by 28 inches, brought $3,596. A New England Sheraton washstand in tiger maple, one long drawer and ball feet, 36 inches high, sold for $2,668, while a velvet theorem of a footed basket with fruit and bird by Fanny Stanton, 14 by 13½ inches sight, went for $3,480. A bid of $6,670 took a New England William and Mary red painted bible box with snipe hinges and rosehead nails, 8½ inches high and 19 inches wide, and a large early American round burl bowl with mellow patina, 20½ inches in diameter, sold for $4,060.

Five early treenware square carved plates with salt cups, the largest 8 inches, went for $6,728; an elaborately carved spoon rack with pinwheel and fan decoration, 20 inches high and 8½ inches in width, $6,670; and a New England Chippendale tiger maple bonnet top chest-on-chest, 86 inches high, 39 inches wide and 22 inches deep, molded crest with flame finials, center fan carved, molded base, sold for $14,500.

Toward the end of the sale, a New York classical marble top pier table in mahogany, apron with gilt lyre decoration, compressed bun feet, realized $12,760; an American Egyptian Revival marble top center table in mahogany, eight columnar legs with gilt capitals, carved sphinx-form feet, 34 inches high with a top 33½ inches in diameter, brought $5,800; and among a selection of Currier & Ives, a medium folio colored lithograph, “Home To Thanksgiving,” sold within the estimate at $13,920.

Another Currier & Ives, 1869, Cunningham 4450, “The New York Club Regatta,” large folio hand colored lithograph after Charles Parsons, made $10,440; “Mountain Showers,” an oil on canvas by Elliott Daingerfield, 30 by 45 inches, signed and dated 1906 on the reverse, fetched $30,160; “The Death of Julius Caesar,” Italian School, Eighteenth Century, oil on canvas measuring 49 by 72 inches, sold for $6,960; and the sale ended with a bidder paying $40,600 for a pair of William IV silver and silver gilt figural salts, Paul Storr, London, 1832–33.

In addition the lots from the Bisnoff collection and the Talbot collection of Crowell carvings (reviewed separately), the three days of sales included objects from the Robert Clifford collection of Pilgrim Century Americana, mocha ware from the collection of Jonathan Rickard, property from the Baltimore Museum of Art, the William Rockhill Nelson Trust of Kansas City, the collection of Betsy and Timothy Trace, glass from the collection of Harold A. Bair, American and European glass from the Florence Bushee collection, and the Florence Durfee Dedham Pottery collection.

Northeast Auctions’ 2008 schedule will begin with a sale on February 22–24 at the Radisson, Manchester, N.H. For information, 603-433-8400 or www.northeastauctions.com.

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The third lot of the sale, a Dedham Pottery Grouse pattern plate printed in dark blue, 97/8  inches in diameter, went for $5,104.

Lot 45, a Dedham Pottery Owl pattern plate with rabbit mark, 9¾ inches in diameter, went for $5,800.

A bid of $8,410 took this rare Chelsea Keramic Art Works ewer, Hugh C. Robertson, circa 1875–89, 10¾ inches in diameter and of baluster form with reeded scroll handle.

This rare and important Arts and Crafts iron box, Samuel Yellin, dated 1922, incised and resting on bun feet, 4½ inches high, 6¼ inches wide and 4¼ inches deep, sold for $42,920.

This British creamware mocha ware jug, circa 1830, 6¾ inches high, dark brown and cinnamon, barrel form, sold for $3,364.

The first lot on Saturday, following the sale of the Bisnoff collection, was this Baltimore album quilt signed by four makers and dated 1846. It measures 101 by 102 inches and had a high estimate of $50,000, but sold for $34,800. Ron Bourgeault noted, before selling the quilt, that the consignor said a relative had paid $100,000 for the quilt.

A set of six New England bow back Windsor side chairs in old green paint, H-form stretchers, went just under the high estimate, selling for $27,840.

A Pennsylvania Queen Anne painted pine cupboard, 60 inches high, 47 inches wide and 19 inches deep, formerly from the collection of Bernard Barenholtz, raised on scalloped bracket feet, sold for $10,490.

Several bidders did battle for an American Indian ash effigy ladle, Woodland/Plains, 14 inches long with a face carved into the end of the handle. It finally sold to the phones for $58,000.

A winter landscape with children and a locomotive by Ralph Cahoon Jr, oil on Masonite, 19 by 24 inches, signed lower right, went for $11,600.

The most popular toy in the sale was this carved and painted bobbin-wheel folk art horse, 11 inches high and 10 inches long, formerly in the collection of Bernard Barenholtz. It was illustrated in the Barenholtz toy book and sold for $15,080.

A New England hutch table in pine and maple with round top in old Spanish brown paint, 30 inches high with a 48-inch diameter top, sold for $9,280.

This New England Pilgrim Century tavern table with medial stretcher, red paint with scrubbed top measuring 40½ by 26 inches, sold for $16,240.

Strong interest was shown in this New England red and black painted pipe box with drawer, 21 inches high, that brought $20,880.

A bid of $12,760 took this Rhode Island Queen Anne figured maple highboy of small proportions, in two parts, 70 inches high, 14½ inches wide and 19 inches deep. It has a center acorn drop finial and cabriole legs terminating in pad feet.

A Massachusetts Queen Anne carved mahogany desk and bookcase, 99 inches high and 38½ inches wide, sold in the middle of the presale estimate at $56,840.

This New England Chippendale block front chest in cherrywood, Massachusetts or Connecticut, 35 inches high, case width 33 inches and 20 inches deep, sold just over the low estimate for $44,080.

A Massachusetts Federal mahogany giltwood and eglomise banjo clock by Aaron Willard, Boston, 40 inches high with a white painted enamel dial with Roman numerals, acorn pendant, sold for $23,200.

A rare and important Dorflinger engraved colorless hock wine glass from the Lincoln White House stemware service, The Greenpoint Glass Works, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1861, engraved with the Great Seal of the United States above an inscribed banner, sold for $18,560.

The three-masted schooner “Lemuel Hall passing Dumpling Rock Lighthouse, New Bedford,” circa 1872, by Charles Sidney Raleigh (American, 1830–1925), oil on canvas measuring 34 by 44 inches, signed lower left, went for $19,720 against a high estimate of $15,000.

Lake George scenery by David Johnson (American, 1827–1908), oil on canvas, 10 by 16 inches, sold for just under the high estimate at $31,900.