Date: Fri 04-Jun-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: LIZAM

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Provenance-Easton

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Items Spanning Three Centuries Offered At Provenance

By Rita Easton

PITTSTOWN, N.J. -- Select antiques were the focus of an April 18 sale held by

Provenance Auction Gallery. Two hundred bidding numbers were issued, with an

additional 140 competing via phone and absentee bids, generating a gross of

$75,000 for the sale.

Three hundred fifty lots of Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

period items, including Americana, art, silver, pottery, rugs, lighting, Civil

War artifacts and decorative accessories were offered.

Headlining the event was a New England Mahogany Chippendale highboy, circa

1760, which garnered $5,060. The upper section of the lot was surmounted by a

full enclosing bonnet and a scrolled facade interrupted by three flame

finials. Three side-by-side drawers with a larger central drawer were defined

by a carved shell element.

The lower section had a single drawer over three side-by-side drawers matching

the top, with the entire piece supported by cabriole legs terminating in ball

and claw feet. The top and bottom were married, repaired, and refinished.

A circa 1800 Pennsylvania cherry Federal fall-front desk, with fitted interior

of nine small drawers, the case having four graduated drawers with original

brass pulls, standing on French feet, refinished, with a damaged rear foot,

reached $3,685; a New England and painted chamber table having a swell front,

in original mustard paint, with brown striping and turned legs ending in ball

feet and original brass hardware fetched $2,310; and a miniature walnut carved

bureau in quarter size, with serpentine-front drawers having brass picture

ring pulls, a single center drawer with three drawers on each side, scroll

feet, with a repaired corner and corner drawer chips, brought $1,320.

Eighteen disks accompanied a Nineteenth Century oak Regina music box model

#67827, which reached $1,925; a 27-inch Simon & Halbig doll, #1078, with

bisque head and composition ball jointed body, sold at $687; an eagle grip

sword, circa 1820, having a brass hilt decorated with an eagle head over an

etched and decorated blade, with matching scabbard engraved with an eagle, was

purchased at $1,540; a 12 by 16-foot Victorian ingrain carpet, woven on a

jacquard loom, achieved $1,155; and a mahogany Federal dropleaf table with

shaped leaves, standing on turned and fluted legs, reached $1,100.

A watercolor by J. D. Knap, "Flying Ducks," went out at $467; an early

American Indian coil cooking basket with a leather trimmed rim sold at $489; a

German tortoise glass box with a bronze ballerina and lacework applied to the

lid achieved $495; and a pastoral oil on canvas by E. deMoll, in an ornate

gilded frame, depicting sheep on a mountain top, reached $852.

Prices quoted reflect the ten percent buyer's premium.