Date: Fri 30-Oct-1998

Publication: Ant

Author: JUDIR

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Charlton Hall Yields Philadelphia Chest

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By Rita Easton

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Following a five-day pre-auction exhibit, 770 lots of

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American, English, and Continental

furniture, paintings and decorative arts were offered September 26 and 27 by

Charlton Hall Galleries, Inc.

Two hundred twenty-seven registered buyers were present, in addition to 80 on

the phones and absentees. Headlining the event was a circa 1770 Philadelphia

walnut tall chest of three-over-two-over-four drawers, measuring 62« inches

high by 42¬ inches wide by 23‹ inches deep, having replaced brasses. It sold

at $20,000. The lot went to the trade.

A rosewood armchair, upholstered in salmon damask, with deeply tufted oval

back surrounded by a heavily carved pierced frame, in the style of Meeks,

circa 1855, estimated at $2,5/3,500, brought $4,000 from a California

collector.

David Acheson Woodward's (American, 1823-1909) full-length portrait of a

Confederate officer, oil on canvas measuring 48« inches high by 32« inches

wide, signed and dated, reached $5,250, and a long horizontal matte with four

oval openings surrounding four miniature pencil on paper drawings of members

of the Skottowe family of South Carolina, monogrammed "C.V.L." and dated 1780,

late Eighteenth Century British school, fetched $4,000, going to a South

Carolina State Museum.

A Continental bronze figural group, Nineteenth Century, standing 21« inches

high, depicting a nude figure of a Mideast Indian about to slay a tiger, made

$2,900; and one of the most amusing oils to be offered was passed, an Allen

Tucker (American, 1866-1939), "Jule," signed and dated, depicting a scene in a

dental office, a large shepherd-like dog sitting in the dental chair, and a

small boy looking into his mouth with a dental mirror.

An Irish Chippendale mahogany stool, late Eighteenth Century, upholstered in

mint green damask, standing 18 inches high, which generated many inquiries,

was purchased at $2,700; a three-inch-long platinum amethyst and diamond bar

pin reached $3,100; an English hand-chased silverplated urn, circa 1895,

standing 20 inches high, achieved $2,200; a local private buyer went home with

an American lyre back chair (est $800/1,200) for $5,000; an oil on canvas

after John Frederick Herring, Jr, of animals in a barnyard fetched $3,600; an

oil on canvas by American Impressionist artist Alberta Rehm Schultz (est

$1/1,500) realized $3,000; and an oil on board by Elisee Maclet went under the

money at $1,900, most likely due to the subject, a floral still life. The

artist is best known for his Paris street scenes.

A Chinese export tilt-top table, circa 1860 (est $3/5,000), brought $7,500; a

set of six Irish Chippendale chairs in excellent condition sold at $7,000; a

Persian Serapi, 8'10" by 11'10", reached $8,000; an Oriental hardwood and

mother-of-pearl opium bed, with marble inserts, garnered $1,000; an American

cherry Pennsylvania cupboard, circa 1830 (est $1,5/2,000), with glass

mullioned doors above raised panel cupboard doors, went privately at $3,400; a

mahogany Chippendale secretary bookcase, Nineteenth Century, achieved $7,500.

The daughter of famed actor Leslie Howard consigned a George III mahogany

bookcase, which went within estimate at $4,200; a Fried Pal

(Hungarian-American, 1893-1976) oil on canvas, a portrait of a ballerina (est

$1/1,500), brought $2,300; an English red lacquered secretary bookcase, late

Nineteenth Century, realized $6,250; a Rose Medallion porcelain urn in an

unusual shape brought $1,550; and two Nantucket nesting lightship baskets went

out at $1,300.

Prices quoted do not reflect a required 12 percent buyer's premium