Advertiser Bulletin: Major Estates Auction This Weekend at Crescent City ...
$3,000-$5,000). Another highlight in the antique clock category could well be the French Restoration gilt bronze figural mantel clock, made circa 1820 and 18 inches tall. It's expected to bring $1,400-$2,000. Other notables in the clocks category will ...
midcitymessenger.com
June 16, 2015
Great Auspiciousness Confirmed for Chinese Tribute Clock
The 19" tall mantel clock sold for $161,000 (including buyer's premium) to a persistent and well-heeled phone bidder who also snapped up other high-end clocks in the sale. This writer's expertise and passion is horology. The 61 French clocks joined ...
www.maineantiquedigest.com
June 6, 2015
From the pub to the barn, Maryland estate is lavish
Nearby in the family room, which has a mural above the fireplace of the rooftops of Florence, the mantel is a dramatic bronze and marble antique that once stood in the headquarters of the Bromo Seltzer company in Baltimore, the iconic tower modeled on ...
www.dailyherald.com
June 6, 2015
Original works by Jose Maria Cundin, Alexander Drysdale, Clementine Hunter ...
$3,000-$5,000). Another highlight in the antique clock category could well be the French Restoration gilt bronze figural mantel clock, made circa 1820 and 18 inches tall. It's expected to bring $1,400-$2,000. Other notables in the clocks category will ...
www.artfixdaily.com
June 3, 2015
Gallery Report
Also, an oil on canvas painting by Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956), titled Paysage aver un Bosquet, realized $177,500; a patinated and gilt figural bronze statue by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercie (French, 1845-1916), titled Gloria Victis, made $108,000 ...
www.liveauctioneers.com
June 15, 2015
Paradise in Potomac: Every inch of couple's estate built for living lavishly
The family gathers for meals in the breakfast room, which has a Swedish grandfather clock from 1823 and a bell that was once used in a Franciscan monastery to call the monks to dinner. The pale blue and white Nearby in the family room, which has a ...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2015
PUBLIC SALES: French, Oriental bedroom furniture draws bids
Several items and prices included: a three-piece French provincial bedroom suit, $425; a four-piece oriental bedroom suit, $250; a Ekstrom Danish modern chair, $295; a bronze French mantle clock, $260; a Emerson Bakelite Catalin radio, $1,250; a Lionel ...
lancasteronline.com
April 19, 2015
New Orleans history and lore will be front and center at Crescent City Auction Gallery’s two-day estates auction slated for June 20-21, in the firm’s gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue. Offered will be five artworks each from the legendary New Orleans painters Clementine Hunter and Alexander Drysdale, plus items from a home once owned by Anne Rice. Anne Rice (b. 1941), still a resident of New Orleans, is the author best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles , two of which were made into major motion pictures. Start times will be 9 a. m. on June 20 and 10 a. m. on June 21 (Central time). The names Clementine Hunter (1886-1988) and Alexander Drysdale (1870-1934) are instantly recognizable to New Orleans residents. The five Clementine Hunters in the sale (all from a single-owner collection) will include a circa 1980 signed and unframed oil on board titled Courtroom Scene (est. $2,000-$4,000). and a circa 1975 signed and unframed oil on board titled Ginning Cotton (est. $1,500-$2,500). Also certain to draw interest will be a somewhat startling figural painted papier-mâché sculpture by the Spanish-born New Orleans painter Jose Maria Cundin (b. 1938), titled Charity Hospital, named for the New Orleans public...
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors of Pequea Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at its regular public meeting on Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at 6:30 P. M. , prevailing... The caption of the proposed Ordinance and a summary of the proposed Ordinance is as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PEQUEA, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, TO ADOPT THE PEQUEA TOWNSHIP ZONING ORDINANCE OF 2015,... The proposed Ordinance provides for the adoption of the Zoning Ordinance of 2015 for the Township of Pequea, which shall be a comprehensive new Zoning Ordinance for the Township which will regulate and govern all uses within Pequea Township. The proposed Zoning Ordinance of 2015 is intended for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the Township and its residents, and to further coordinated and practical community development and planning within the Township and the... This proposed Ordinance provides for the rescission and replacement of the Zoning Ordinance of December 16, 1992 for Pequea Township.
Gallery: "Study for Improvisation V," Wassily Kandinsky (1910): Though superficially abstract, this expressive Russian painting depicts a scene from the Apocalypse in which a blue-robed woman kneels before a tall, red-clad and blue-faced figure... Gallery: "The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa," Grant Wood (1931): Iowa businessmen hired the Iowa artist to depict the U. S. president's childhood home, but Hoover rejected the picture because he thought the two-story house at the... Gallery: "Folding Roundback Chair" (late 1500s): One of the finest examples of a chair often used by Chinese emperors as a portable throne. Museum benefactor Bruce Dayton paid $453,000, then a world record, for it in 1996. Ignoring "keep off" signs, a museum visitor stepped over a barricade, sat on it and broke it in 2000. Repairs cost nearly $10,000. . Gallery: "Jade Mountain... Gallery: "Astronomical Mantel Timepiece," Jean-Antoine Lépine (1789): The clockmaker to Louis XVI made this dazzling timepiece four years before the king was beheaded in the French Revolution. The decorations refer to Apollo, the god of the sun, music and poetry who was often associated with the French ruler.
Rare 19th century Chinese gilt bronze with enamel automaton clock fetches $526,750 at S & S Auction
News-Antique.com - Jun 23,2015 - REPAUPO, N.J. – A rare 19th century Chinese gilt bronze with enamel automaton clock boasting elaborate jewel ... Rounding out the Sunday session was a set of four French Empire-style brass curtain tiebacks mounted with ...
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June 23, 2015
Antiques & Collectibles
Through the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, she was given a day’s pass to spend Christmas with her son, after which she continued on to Colombia, where she taught French until ... Queen Anne tall-case clock were the top sellers ...
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June 21, 2015
Advertiser Bulletin: Major Estates Auction This Weekend at Crescent City Auction Gallery
$3,000-$5,000). Another highlight in the antique clock category could well be the French Restoration gilt bronze figural mantel clock, made circa 1820 and 18 inches tall. It’s expected to bring $1,400-$2,000. Other notables in the clocks category will be ...
uptownmessenger.com
June 17, 2015
Rare antique lamps, clocks, coin-ops and more will be at Fontaine's three-session auction, June 27th
The cataloged sale will feature antique clocks, lamps (by Duffner & Kimberly, Gorham, Handel, Pairpoint and others), porcelains, bronze statuary ... $800-$1,200); a French crane digger coin-op machine in a mahogany case with beveled front door glass ...
www.artfixdaily.com
June 16, 2015
French period furniture, original artwork, fine decorative accessories at Crescent City, March 7-8
News-Antique.com - Feb 23,2015 - NEW ORLEANS, La. – A 1918 collage by the French artist Henri Laurens (1885-1954), a 19th century French bronze figural mantel clock by Vincenti & Cie., a pair of 19th century Venetian parcel gilt polychrome and lacquer ...
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February 22, 2015
Clocks’ many duties stand the test of time
13th St. – the only clock store in Wichita – you can hear time move. It whirs, strikes, tick-tocks and chimes all around you. The top of the hour is almost always striking from one clock or another, as the clocks – ranging from antique to modern ...
www.kansas.com
March 6, 2015
Hickory Hardware 1-5/16 In. French Country Vintage Bronze Antique Cabinet Knob
Refreshing in its simplicity, Rustic style highlights natural beauty and a rugged, resilient spirit. Thanks to the unpretentious roots, organic textures, shapes and natural warmth, it s become as popular in the heart of the city as it is out in the woods.
www.houzz.com
January 4, 2015
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