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FRIDAY APRIL 23, 2021 • VOL. 51, NO. 16
Contemporary Folk Art Soars At Witman Auction
Rarity Rules At Skinner Asian Art Auction
Zook Diorama Sets New Mark At $41,800
Two-Volume Tome Garners $137,500
By Karl Pass
which resulted in several outstanding results for assorted contempoWitman Auctioneers Inc., of rary folk art and other regional Manheim, Pa., conducted a multi- collectibles. Prices include a consignor auction on March 27 at 10-percent buyer’s premium. The highest grossing lot was an Enck’s Banquet Center in Manheim, Abner Zook 3-D diorama depicting the Hat Tavern, selling for $41,800. An Abner Zook (1921-2010) 3-D mill and covered bridge scene brought $19,800. The Zook market is not showing signs of cooling off. The supply is there; Abner and his twin brother, Aaron, endlessly created these elaborate sculptural works. They were mostly made in the 1980s and ’90s and number over 1,000. The other factor in the market’s strength is that there are currently active buyers. It will be interesting to see if future generations with deep resources follow suit. Redware potter Ned Foltz of Reinholds, Pa., still working today, is regarded as among the most talented craftsmen working in the Pennsylvania German tradition. Unlike the late Lester Breininger, who A Ned Foltz Adam and Eve redware sculpture Continued on page 2 sold for $4,100.
The Abner Zook 3-D diorama of Hat Tavern sold for $41,800.
These stick spatter rabbit plates sold for $280.
Create A Colorful Kitchen New Sales Display At Haddon Heights Offers The Goods Vintage kitchenware is a popular collecting category in the market today. The possibilities are endless, with items ranging from very affordable to rare and expensive. Most items can be used and are also great design elements for a kitchen. And then there are the colors, so many hues reflecting the era in which they were created. That’s why the Haddon Heights Antiques Center’s current special sales display is called “Colorful Kitchen.” It will cover much of the 20th century, from the 1920s through the 1970s. Shoppers will find the bright primary colors found in Fiesta and many Pyrex pieces. There are the pastel pinks and blues of the 1950s, bright greens and softer Jadite green popularized in the 1920s and
1930s, as well as red and white, sometimes accented with black or blue, which was vogue in the 1940s and into the 1950s. Bright turquoises and oranges found their way into the kitchens of the early 1960s, while avocado green and harvest gold decorated many kitchens of the late 1960s into the ’70s. The sales display will include bakeware and dishes, glasses and mugs, utensils and even linens. Kitchen collectibles can be found throughout the rest
of this multi-dealer shop as well. The Haddon Heights Antiques Center is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is conveniently located at 531 Clements
Bridge Road, just off I-295 at exit 29 southbound or exit 29B northbound in Barrington, N.J. For additional information, call 856-546-0555.
The Skinner Asian Works of Arts auction from March 16 to 25 offered various pan-Asian material ranging from Chinese ceramics and Japanese prints to a textile from Turkey and a stone funerary stele from Egypt. Bidding that took place online in the last hours of the sale resulted in an exciting end, with many pieces selling over estimated value. One of only 100 copies in the world, a near-pristine copy of Heber Bishop’s “Investigations in Jade” brought $137,500, including buyer’s premium. The volumes, which combine stunning watercolor paintings with plentiful lithographs and etched illustrations, were gifted to institutions and heads of state across the globe, where many of them have remained. Very few reach the open market. For the second Asian sale in a row, Skinner auctioned a significant piece of Korean art, a silverinlaid bronze sundial, among a handful of Korean bronze sundials extant in the world. Suhyung Kim, department director pro tem, remarked, “Before the discovery of this piece, a sundial with a tripod base had not yet been reported, making it a unique find.” With a distinguished provenance, it had been in the Wuppertal Clock Museum collection in Germany until the previous decade when it was acquired by the present owner. Chinese ceramics also achieved strong prices, with a group of 10 pieces collectively bringing $90,000. In various glazes ranging from clair-de-lune to famille rose, robin’s egg blue, turquoise blue, blue and white, and crackle glazed, they exemplified the beauty and diversity of Chinese ceramic production. A robe consigned by a local family and a group of fine textiles Continued on page 5
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