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Online Sale Provides Strong Results For Unique Items At Locati Mira Nakashima Coffee Table Realizes $2,900
FRIDAY OCTOBER 19, 2018 • VOL. 49, NO. 42
“Embroidery: The Thread Of History” At Winterthur Explores Needlework As A Document Of Record
Locati LLC of Maple Glen, Pa., presented its September online-only sale from Sept. 4 to 17 and consisted of over 700 lots. A wide range of material from unusual Chinese porcelain to fine art brought higher than expected results. “Once in a while This walnut coffee table by Mira Nakashima realized $2,900. we offer something for the first time,” said owner that surpassed our expectations Michael Locati. “This was the case and realized $5,050.” with a small meteorite collection Continued on page 4
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In Addition To Exhibition, Winterthur Will Host A Conference On Oct. 19 And 20 From a rare sampler worked about 1820 by a young African-American girl to an intricately embroidered sweet bag and knife sheath that are said to have belonged to a ladyin-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, nearly 30 works from 1660 to the present are on view in “Embroidery: The Thread of History” at Winterthur. The exhibition explores the use of embroidery as historical documents This sampler was worked by Susan Smith at the Balch School, that can deepen our Providence, R.I., 1793-94, made of silk-on-linen, and was a understanding of bequest of Henry Francis du Pont 1958.2879. women’s lives and Needlework can document the considers how needlework has been used to remember the past, docu- world of the maker, such as “A View ment the present, and look forward of New York,” a watercolor and silkto the future. The exhibition will be on-silk piece dated 1807 and on view in the Society of Winterthur worked by Mary Bowen while she was a student at Haerlem Boarding Fellows Gallery until Jan. 6, 2019. “Needlework is a crucially School in Harlem, N.Y., a quiet important area of study,” said Linda country village at the time. It Eaton, John L. and Marjorie P. depicts lower Manhattan as seen McGraw director of collections and from Brooklyn, near where the senior curator of textiles. “Samplers famous bridge now stands. A samand silkwork pictures often docu- pler worked by Sarah Ann Major ment the lives of their makers by Harris from 1822 through 1828 doccelebrating their families or provid- uments the importance of embroiing evidence of the places and dery as part of the education of times they lived in, so needlework young African-American girls. can provide evidence of lives of Harris, an important figure in the women who might otherwise have movement to abolish slavery, was the first African-American student remained unknown.” at Prudence Crandall’s school in Canterbury, Conn., a circumstance that led to the enactment of Connecticut’s infamous Black Law against educating black children from out of state. The future of needlework is represented by a magnificent “A View of New York” was worked by Mary Bowen under the tutelage e m b r o i d e r e d of Eliza H. Lockwood, Haerlem Boarding School, Harlem, N.Y., 1807, and casket and toys is watercolor-and-silk-on-silk and a bequest of Henry Francis du Pont Continued on page 2 1964.776.
Fun Fall At The Grist Mill on page 2
A fine Japanese cast-iron and mixed metal teapot sold for $7,250. A collection of early Japanese teapots sold.
A pair of Chinese Famille Rose vases brought $3,100.
“The Family Of Hummingbirds: The Complete Prints Of John Gould”
Silver Teapot Owned By Virginia’s Last Royal Governor Returns To Colonial Williamsburg on page 6
Exciting New Book Published On John Gould’s 1849 Lithographs Of All 418 Species Every hummingbird carries with it a story of unbelievable endurance t h r o u g h transcontinental migration and survival against all odds. This magnificent volume brings together the family of hummingbirds, all 418 species that were known to exist when John Gould set out to capture them on paper in 1849. G o u l d ’ s years-long quest, in which he enlisted the help of many fellow artists, i n c l u d i n g Edward Lear, resulted in this master work of natural history. Unlike Audubon, whose works focused on a single country, Gould’s lithographs depict jewel-like birds, together with botanicals native to their habitats, from the most remote and exotic
Native American Artifact And Art Collection To Be Sold By Hess Auction Group On Oct. 20 on page 10
Is It A Daguerreotype Or Ambrotype? on page 16
In This Issue ecosystems of the Americas. This collection of superbly detailed, hand-colored lithographs is the most complete of known species ever produced. In their essay, authors Joel Continued on page 2
SHOPS, SHOWS & MARKETS . . . . . . . . . . starting on page 3 SHOPS DIRECTORY . . . . . . . . . on page 5 EVENT & AUCTION CALENDAR . on page 7 AUCTION SALE BILLS . . . starting on page 7
FEATURED AUCTION: Poster Auctions International Inc. - October 28 in New York, N.Y. - Page 12
AUCTIONEER DIRECTORY . . . . . on page 8 CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . on page 19