Date: Fri 23-Apr-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: SARAH

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Leighton

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American Cut Glass Tops Leighton's March 20 Sale

with 5 cuts

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. -- On Saturday, March 20, Leighton Galleries held their most

successful auction to date. Offered for sale to the highest bidder were a

fabulous collection of 270 lots of fine art, silver, estate jewelry, furniture

and decorative arts. An illustrated auction catalogue was available which

included an index of significant artists whose works were up for bid. Over 200

registered bidders filled the auction held at Christ Church. A record number

of sealed and phone bids from all over the US, and as far away as Scotland,

were executed by the Leighton Galleries' staff.

One of the auction's many highlights was a turn-of-the-century Libbey cut

glass vase which had generated considerable interest in the weeks prior to

auction. It was sold to a Maryland collector for $10,640. Top-selling fine art

prices included a painting by Arthur Parton titled "Before the Day is Gone,"

which brought $5,600, a French bronze sculpture by Mathurin Moreau "Figure of

Ondine" which sold for $4,480, and A. Leonardi's Nineteenth Century "Venus

Rising" oil on canvas which brought $2,240. Other top-selling items included a

pair of Victorian majolica vases selling for $1,569, a reverse-painted table

lamp selling for $1,456, a Nineteenth Century Rand McNally terrestrial library

globe selling for $980, an Art Nouveau porcelain amphora vase selling for

$840, an English mahogany rocking horse selling for $728, a Tiffany & Co

sterling repousse vanity box selling for $616, a Nantucket basket selling for

$308, and a 1988 Jaguar XJ6 brought $4,144. Prices quoted include the 12

percent buyers premium.