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 August, 2020 | 32 Items | October, 2020  |
| COBALT STRIPED PILLAR BLOWN CELERY, Pittsburgh, mid 19th century. Clear glass with greyish tint, baluster stem, plain foot, ground and polished pontil. Wear inside bowl. 9.5”h. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $400-600 Price Realized: $3,500 | |
| | NEW YORK JACQUARD COVERLET, Wool and cotton. Two-piece in blue and white. Floral with American eagle border and "Under this we prosper", and elaborate corner blocks dated 1841 with "Washington" on horseback "United we stand, divided we fall". "J. Cunningham, Weaver, N. Hartford, Oneida Co. N. York," and the client's name "Julia Shelden". 70" x 88”. Condition: Minimal fringe loss, approx. two areas about 1”-1.5” long. Two cloth hanging tabs sewn to the plain sewn end. Same end has a few tiny spots of loss. One dime sized stain on the white side of one corner block. Provenance: The weaver, J. Cunningham, has another coverlet, identical to this example and also dated "1841" in the permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $600-800 Price Realized: $850 |
| BURL PADDLE SHAPED BOWL, American Indian, attributed to New York, 17th century. Clam shell shape with pierced handle. Good figure. 5.25”h. 6”w. Condition: Some edge loss. Provenance: Ex Collection of Peter Brams (New York), ex Bill Samaha (Ohio), ex Steve Powers (NewYork). Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $600-1,200 Price Realized: $3,750 | |
| MASSACHUSETTS WILLIAM AND MARY MULE CHEST, First half-18th century, pine and maple. Lift top with staple hinges, two dovetailed drawers with original brass hardware, and applied molding. Rose head nails. Old red and black paint. Some imperfections. 36.5”h.38.5”w. 19.5”d. Condition: Replaced feet, age splits, two missing pulls, repaired hinge rail. Literature: Pictured in “The Furniture of Historic Deerfield” by Dean A. Fales, Jr. fig. 378. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $600-800 Price Realized: $1,400 | |
| QUEEN ANNE BONNET-TOP HIGH CHEST, American, 2nd half-18th century. Transitional Queen Anne to Chippendale, cherry with pine secondary. Top with routed molding, turned finials, three over five overlapping drawers, center-top drawer has carved fan, base with waist molding, one over three dovetailed drawers, center drawer has carved fan, shaped apron with drop finials, cabriole legs with ball and claw feet. 85"h. 34.5"w. 21”d. Condition: Older refinishing, vertical age splits on either side of top have been repaired with pieces of wood, minor pieced repairs to cornice and drawer corners. Original top and base, brasses have age but may be period replacements in original holes. Loss to interior corner of back leg post. Bonnet renailed with some shrinkage. Drops have age, finials and plinths replaced below rosette. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $6,000-9,000 Price Realized: $4,500 | |
| AMERICAN BURL TRENCHER, Nineteenth century. Oblong with foot and traces of handles and incised rim. Good patina. 4.5"h. 20.25"l. Condition: Edge loss and splits with old lead (?) plug. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $400-600 Price Realized: $1,100 | |
| OHIO SHERATON SECRETARY BOOKCASE, Ca 1820s, curly maple with poplar secondary. Two-piece with glass paned door on top and interior shelves, base has well-turned legs and flip down writing surface. Three dovetailed drawers with original pulls.Refinished. 69.25”h. with 27” writing height, 38”w. 19”d. Condition: Interior stains on shelves, edge chips to back right foot, small nicks on cornice. Provenance: Ex Donahey Estate (Logan, Ohio), from the home of former Ohio Governor and Senator Alvin Victor Donahey (1873-1946), purchased at Ottie Opperman auction, May1998. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $1,500-2,500 Price Realized: $3,500 | |
| AMERICAN DECORATED CONTAINER, Mid 19th century. Large treenware, lidded container. Faint original vinegar sponged decoration on mustard ground. Wear. 10"h. 8”d. Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $100-300 Price Realized: $2,600 | |
| OHIO MINIATURE DECORATED BLANKET CHEST, Coshocton County, Ohio, ca.1830, poplar. Original thumbprint type grain-paint decoration. Bracket feet, scalloped feet, and single drawer with porcelain pulls. Cut iron nails. Lock with key. Wear. 10.25"h. 13"w.7.5"d. See "Ohio Furniture Makers", v. 2, p. 69, by Hageman for two other Coshocton County miniature blanket chests almost identical to this one as well as lot 69, sold at Garth's,May 2008. Condition: Top is dark with paint loss (is difficult to see loss due to darkness of paint but decoration remains), multiple areas of paint loss and scratches especially on base and drawers. Side pieces of lid are lighter in paint but original (possibly an attempt at cleaning as one has a series of horizontal scratches). Sold at Garth’s Auction September 12, 2020. Estimate: $2,000-3,000 Price Realized: $2,400 | |
| LATE 18TH C DRY SINK, Early dry mustard paint over original sage paint, H and L Forged iron hinges, carved wood door latch, tall boot jack base, shelved interior, outstanding rare form, excellent untouched condition. 33 X 17 X 34 Tall. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $1,500-2,500 Price realized: $1,700 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| CIRCA 1770 OXBOW FRONTED CHEST, maplewood, painted or stained, cherry four drawer chippendale, old surface, ogee feet, original dovetailed, chamfered drawers, 34 X 37 X 17.5. Sold at D.L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $5,000-8,000 Price Realized: $3,600 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| RARE ORIGINAL BLUE PAINTED PIE SAFE, with highly unusual basket of flowers pierced tins, original twelve tins, full height, great blue surfaces, interior shelves original, good wear, 52 X 38 X 17. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $1,200-2,400 Price realized: $2,800 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| RARE 18TH C AMERICAN BEAVER FELT HAT, showing remnants of original long fur. Hat could be worn brim down in the field for work or three brims raised to form a tricorn hat for formal occasions 14 X 5. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $800-1,200 Price realized: $500 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| VERY RARE PILGRIM BLANKET CHEST, Plymouth County, Ball feet, pine and maple, circa 1660-1680, rare sawtooth molding, old refinish, replaced hinges missing lock, rare small size, 31 X 17 X 21. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $1,000-2,000 Price realized: $1,500 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| RARE SOUTHERN CARVED HUNT BOARD, appears to be slave made with African Style carvings encompassing the front drawers. Southern yellow pine, 44 X 51 X 18, The back states "R. ROSE 1242 MAIN ST., HARTFORD, CT.” Possibly connected to the Rose Plantation in the South, warm patina throughout the case, tapered legs, very solid, a very rare piece of Americana. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $6,000-12,000 Price realized: $6,000 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| DIMINUTIVE TIGER MAPLE SLANT FRONT DESK ON FRAME, Two piece, very strong figural maple throughout the case and gallery, nice dark warm patina, dovetailed drawers, chamfered drawer bottoms, one piece chestnut board incorporated into the bottom, 32 X 40 X 18. Sold at D. L. Straight Auctions September 7, 2020. Estimate: $1,000-2,000 Price realized: $2,600 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| A PAIR OF NEW YORK HEPPLEWHITE SIDE CHAIRS, Circa 1800 Height 39.5 x width 21 x depth 20 inches. Provenance:Property of a Midwestern Museum. Israel Sack, Inc., New York. Condition: Item is in overall good condition. Breaks and repairs throughout crest. Single chair with possible ending out repairs to the last half inch of the front feet. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $700-900 Price Realized: $1,408 | |
| JUDGE JACOB BURNET, U.S. SENATOR OIL ON CANVAS, attributed to George Peter Alexander Healy (American, 1813-1894), unsigned sight: 28.25 x 24 inches. Born in Newark, NJ, in 1770, Jacob Burnet (1770-1853) was the son of noted physician William Burnet, who was better known as George Washington's Surgeon General. He moved to the Ohio Valley and settled in Cincinnati in 1795. His career started in the state legislature with two successive terms in 1814 and 1815. In 1821, he was appointed to the Ohio Supreme Court to replace a recently deceased judge. He was eventually elected to serve a full seven-year term. In 1828, he was elected to the United States Senate to replace William Henry Harrison, who had recently become the ambassador to Colombia. His term expired in 1831. Burnet was an important figure in the political and cultural landscape of Cincinnati and served as president of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio in the late 1830s-early 1840s. He was also a shareholder in many regional companies and developed an important portfolio of investments throughout his life. Throughout his life and political career, Burnet was known as a staunch Federalist, and supported the presidential campaign of Henry Clay in 1824. He was also an advocate of the movement to send freed Blacks to Africa and was an officer of the Cincinnati Colonization Society. He, for instance, opposed the publication of the abolitionist newspaper The Philanthropist. Judge Jacob Burnet died in 1853. Provenance and previous history: This portraitis said to have descended in the family from the sitter himself to his great-grandson Jacob Wendell Burnet. The painting was donated to the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by Mrs. Katherine Birkbile Burnet, wife of Mr. Jacob Wendell Burnet, in memory of her late husband, in 1994. Marie DeMare's catalogue G.P.A Healy: American Artist references an 1862 exhibit in Chicago featuring ten portraits by the artist, including one of Judge Burnet. It is speculated that this portrait was indeed displayed in the exhibit. The work is characteristic of Healy's portraiture style, and a sharp rendition of the sitter's personality and appearance, "swarthy, slender, a bit above average height, and most notable for piercing black eyes with which he was expert at intimidating wayward witnesses." (The Princetonians, 1791-1794, A Biographical Dictionary, J. Jefferson Looney and Ruth L. Woodward). Condition: Frame: 35.5 x 32 inches. The frame is a gilded wood frame with gesso overlay. The canvas was relined and several repairs are visible. A UV light inspection reveals several repaired tears, including a large arc-shaped one in the upper right corner, as well as on towards the center left of the canvas. To the left of the sitter's vest button, there is a repaired tear, which is raised from the surface of the canvas. Old craquelure, stable, is also visible. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $500-700 Price Realized: $1,875 | |
| A NEW YORK CLASSICAL EBONIZED, GILT-STENCILED DECORATED AND FIGURED MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS, attributed to Holmes and Haines, Circa 1830, Height 67 x width 40 x depth 24 inches. Condition: Item is in overall good condition. Age split to main casing. Original paint throughout with minor loss in areas of use. Reference. See article in "Antiques Magazine” Permanent Collection. 70.171.1. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $1,000-1,500 Price Realized: $1,750 | |
| A RARE AND IMPORTANT CARVED, PAINTED AND GILDED PINE CLASSICAL FEMALE FIGURE, American, likely New York, Circa 1830 Height 64 inches. This carving recalls other figures made by several American ship carvers to adorn churches and public buildings. It especially calls to mind the work of John Rush (1782-1853), who carved similar figures for the Carpenter family estate in Germantown, Pennsylvania, which were then sold at public auction in Philadelphia in 1893, as detailed by Linda Bantel inWilliam Rush, American Sculptor, pp. 187-188. The collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art also features a similar example. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $15,000-25,000 Price Realized: $15,360 | |
| A SCHOOLGIRL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, possibly Virginia or Ohio, Circa 1800, signed Susannah Baber Aged 9 years, sight: 9 x 17.25 inches. Possibly done by a known Susannah Baber, who was born in Virginia in 1794 and spent some years in Darke County, Ohio. Frame: 12 x 20.25 inches. Condition: Several small holes along bottom and left edges. Thin along top with several small areas of lost stitching. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $500-700 Price Realized: $1,375 | |
| A HANGING PIPE BOX IN OLD PAINT, American, 18th Century including twelve pipes, Height 16 x width 5 x depth 4.5 inches. Provenance:Property from the Collection of Judith & Gary Gay, Morrow, Ohio. Condition: Wear to corners, drawer fronts and base. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $300-500 Price Realized: $2,375 | |
| A HANGING SPICE BOX IN WALNUT, American, 19th Century with a slant lid and four drawers, Height 17.5 x width 12.5 x depth 7.25 inches. Provenance:Property from the Collection of Judith & Gary Gay, Morrow, Ohio. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $300-500 Price Realized: $2,000 | |
| A PRIMITIVE RED PAINTED PINE STEPBACK CUPBOARD, 19th Century, Height 75.5 x width 44.5 x depth 18.5 inches. Provenance:Property from the Collection of Judith & Gary Gay, Morrow, Ohio. Condition: Item is in overall good condition with age splits and paint loss throughout with age and use. Original backboards. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $600-800 Price Realized: $2,500 | |
| A BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA PAINT DECORATED PINE BLANKET CHEST, Berks County, Pennsylvania, Early 19th Century Height 22 x width 46 x depth 19 inches. Provenance:Property from the Collection of Judith & Gary Gay, Morrow, Ohio Condition: Item is in good overall condition. Both rear legs have broken and since been restored and repainted to match. Left side molding along the lift top surface has been restored. Paint probably refreshed/touching up throughout. Coagulated varnish finish over the paint decorated panels. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $600-800 Price Realized: $1,750 | |
| AN EXUBERANTLY PAINTED PINE BLANKET CHEST, New England, Late 18th/Early 19th Century, Height 39.5 x width 38 x depth 19 inches. Provenance:Property from the Collection of Judith & Gary Gay, Morrow, Ohio. Condition: Item is in good overall condition. Very minor wear to the bottom of the front feet due to use and age. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $700-900 Price Realized: $2,688 | |
| MATTHEW HARRIS JOUETT (1788-1827), A PORTRAIT OF GOVERNOR ISAAC SHELBY (1750-1826), OIL ON CRADLED PANEL, Circa 1818, 25.75 x 20 inches. The ambitious young artist Matthew Harris Jouett spent the summer of 1816 working in the studio of Presidential portraitist Gilbert Stuart. From that old master, he learned how to set his palette, place the figure on the planar field, and, perhaps most importantly, size up the subject’s character. In Some Notes and observations from repeated conversations with Gilbert Stuart…(Pennington, Matthew Harris Jouett… pp. 299-309) Jouett offers, with “some modesty…a reflection of mine: In painting great public characters be sure to have them elevated above you—this opens the countenance & gives a grandeur to the figure…” It was a compositional device he would employ to great effect, and considerable success. Once he returned to Kentucky and established a studio near the Court House square in Lexington, Jouett set about painting many of the seminal figures in early Kentucky history.Drawing upon social contacts from his student days at Transylvania University, family ties, and his distinguished service in the War of 1812, Jouett soon became the portraitist of choice for legends of the Commonwealth. One of the first of those he painted was Isaac Shelby. Shelby had been a Revolutionary War soldier, a hero of the Battle of King’s Mountain, South Carolina. After the war he settled in Knob Creek, Lincoln County, until like Cincinnatus and George Washington, he was called from the field to participate in political conventions leading to statehood in 1792. He was unanimously elected governor, May 1792, and served until June 1796, when he again left public life for sixteen years to farm at Traveler’s Rest, Boyd County.As war loomed, he was again elected Governor in 1812, and as a General commanded forces at the epic Battle of the Thames. Jouett painted him after his return to farming at Traveller’s Rest, where he died and is buried. Lewis Collins, Whig historian sublime, observed that the “vigor of his constitution fitted him to endure active and severe bodily exercise, and the energetic symmetry of his person, united with a peculiar suavity of manner, rendered his deportment impressively dignified; his strong natural sense was aided by close observation on men and things: and the value qualities of method and perseverance, imparted success to all his efforts.” (Collins, History of Kentucky…Kentucky Historical Society reprint, 1966 p 531). Jouett’s ability to apply Stuart’s formula for restrained exaltation is beautifully apparent in his depiction of Shelby’s “peculiar suavity of manner…” The old war horse sits high on the canvas, with that slightly bemused look which Jouett often painted as a coy restraint from implicit arrogance, or outright haughty demeanor. With that wary welcome look Shelby joins others from Jouett’s canon who gaze down through the ages from their golden frames with secure self-awareness and polite regard. Literature: Martin, Mrs. William H. Catalog of All Known Paintings by Matthew Harris Jouett. Louisville: J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, 1939, number 412, p. 44. Pennington, Estill Curtis. Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827) his life and work. 2020, pp. 240-243. Price, Samuel Woodson. Old Masters of the Bluegrass: Jouett, Bush, Grimes, Frazer, Morgan, Hart. Filson Club Publications, no. 17. Louisville: J.P. Morton and Co., 1902, p. 64. Provenance:By direct descent in the family from the sitter to his elder son Thomas Hart Shelby; to his son Edmund Pendleton Shelby; to his son Thomas Hart Shelby; to the father of the current owner. It should be noted that this is the original portrait Jouett painted of Shelby from life, and upon which he based several copies painted for family members, notably the oft reproduced version given by his descendant Susanna Preston Shelby Grigsby to the Kentucky Historical Society. This portrait has been seldom seen and never publicly exhibited. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $75,000-100,000 Price Realized: $112,500 | |
| A RARE WEST TROY, NEW YORK SIX-GALLON STONEWARE CROCK WITH THREE PECKING BIRDS, American, 19th Century, marked West Troy / Pottery, Height 14 x diameter 13.5 inches. Provenance:Property of the Estate of Jack Batdorff, Traverse City, Michigan. Condition: Two repairs - to rim above mark and to viewer's left handle. Hairline to interior bottom and under viewer's right handle. Two chips to interior rim. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $1,500-2,500 Price Realized: $10,000 | |
| A NORTON STONEWARE THREE-GALLON CROCK WITH RECLINING DEER, American, 19th Century, marked J. & E. Norton / Bennington VT, Height 10.754 x diameter 11.5 inches. Provenance:Property of the Estate of Jack Batdorff, Traverse City, Michigan. Condition: Large areas of exterior fluoresce under black light indicating multiple repairs. Majority of decoration does not fluoresce but crack is visible from lower left edge of decoration up to the rim. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $800-1,000 Price Realized: $6,250 | |
| A BANKNOTE ENGRAVER SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH, Circa 1835-45, a sperm whale's tooth engraved on both sides with some red pigment embellishment, Length 6 inches. Both scenes depicted on this tooth, along with the decorative borders that encircle the top, base and portrait, are characteristic of the anonymous scrimshaw artist referred to as the Banknote Engraver. One side of the tooth depicts a masterfully engraved naval battle, The Constitution in Close Action with the Guerriere, after a painting by Michele Felice Corné (1752-1845)and an engraving by Abel Bowen (1790-1850) of Boston. The USS Constitution's 1812 victory over the Guerriere earned it the nickname 'Old Ironsides.' Bowen included the engraving in his military history book The Naval Monument, published in 1816 with several reissues. The book was very popular with sailors and, given the importance of the Constitution to the American maritime imagination, this scene in particular was commonly chosen for scrimshaw. There are at least eight examples by the Banknote Engraver, including a rendition in the Kendall Collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The tooth is incised on the opposite side with a well-executed portrait of a seated woman reading a book. The portrait is adapted from the frontispiece engraving ofThe Young Ladies Elegant Prose, Comprising Selections from the Works of British and American Authors(Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1853). Variations of this image appear on several Banknote-attributed teeth. Cowan's sincerely thanks Dr. Stuart M. Frank for his attribution and authentication of this tooth, and for identifying the source materials for the scenes depicted. Condition: Two notable chips to the tip. Sold at Cowan’s Auction September 22, 2020. Estimate: $6,000-8,000 Price Realized: $23,750 | |
| GILBERT STUART (AMERICAN 1755-1828), AN ATHENEUM TYPE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON OIL ON CANVAS, most likely executed between 1796-1803 period when Stuart was living in Philadelphia, this portrait bears similarities to many similar examples executed by Stuart for prominent Philadelphians during this period. It is notable for the high level of detail in the physiognomy and in Washington's cravat. Approximately 130 copies were painted by Stuart between 1796 and 1826 from the unfinished life painting of George Washington painted during his second term in office in 1796. Provenance: Our example descends in the family of William Mullen (1788-1849) of Philadelphia and has been handed down from the time the painting was acquired by the family around 1830.(William Mullen 1788-1849; Thomas Morris Mullen 1820-1883; Catherine Mullen Woodward 1857-1901; Winfield Scott Woodward 1855-; Thomas Mullen Woodward Sr. 1884-; Thomas Mullen Woodward Jr 1915; Great Uncle Charles Thomas Mullen 1859-1931 named in the note was the brother of Catherine Mullen Woodward). Condition: The portrait was cleaned, restretched and relined in 1955 using techniques appropriate to that period by Henri Courtias of New York there is a minor craqueleur but only minor evidence of inpainting when viewed under UV light. The Painting measures 28 x 24" which is in keeping with the dimensions of the other Atheneum replicas. Sold at Merrill’s Auction September 4, 2020. Estimate: $200,000-400,000 Price Realized: $150,000 (Does not include buyer’s premium) | |
| DENNIS MALONE CARTER, (AMERICAN, C. 1818-1881), DECATUR BOARDING A TRIPOLITAN GUNBOAT OIL ON CANVAS, Signed and dated "D.M. Carter/1853" l.r., 23 x 34.75 in. (58.5 x 88.2 cm), framed. Condition: Lined, scattered retouch to sky, framed dimensions are 28.5 x 40,25 x 2 in.. N.B. This battle scene appears to be one of at least two versions made by Dennis Malone Carter depicting Lieutenant Stephen Decatur boarding a Tripolitan gunboat during the bombardment of Tripoli on August 3, 1804. A very similar but larger and more detailed version (43 x 59 inches, unsigned), painted by Carter either in 1841 or 1858, is part of the Navy Art Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. Both compositions portray Decatur (lower right center) in mortal combat with a Tripolitan adversary. Created as a "history painting" recalling heroic events of The Barbary Wars, the flag at center is a fanciful misinterpretation of a flag in use by the Barbary Pirates. US Navy records reveal that the original owner of their painting believed Carter's work to be a copy after a painting by Alonzo Chappel (American, 1828-1887) purportedly in the Louvre, although this claim has not been verified, and no such work can be located currently on the museum's web site. Estimate $800-1,200 Condition: The retouch in the sky is professionally done, is not intrusive, and is predominantly in the upper left and right corners. Wax lined. Sold at Skinner Auction September 252, 2020. Estimate: $800-1,200 Price Realized: $13,750 |
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