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I M P O R TA N T N O T I C E S The Fall Sale Auction runs November 15-17, 2023, each session beginning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. Please see separate catalog for the Skinner Collection, which will be sold Friday, November 17. All lots from the sale can be viewed online at www.eldreds.com. Bidding Options In-person, online, phone and absentee bidding available. To register for absentee and telephone bidding, please complete the form on page 64, visit our website or call 508-385-3116. Online bidding available through www.eldreds.com. Terms A buyer’s premium will be added to the hammer price of all purchases. The buyer’s premium is 26 percent of the final bid price up to and including $500,000, and 10 percent of the final bid price over $500,000. We accept checks, cash, money orders, wire transfers and major credit cards for payment. Credit cards can only be used for up to $5,000 of the invoice total and the card must have a U.S. billing address. Bidders holding a resale number must provide the certificate or copy thereof when registering to bid or otherwise will be required to pay 6.25% Massachusetts sales tax on purchases. Items picked up in or shipped to Connecticut are subject to 6.35% Connecticut sales tax. Residents of other states may be subject to state and local sales taxes. Condition Reports Prospective bidders should satisfy themselves by personal inspection as to the condition of each lot. It is the bidder’s responsibility to obtain a condition report, by either visiting our website or contacting us. Although condition reports may be given on request, such reports are statements of opinion only. The absence of a condition report does not imply the property is in good condition. Regardless of whether or not a condition report is given, all property is sold subject to Item 1 of our Conditions of Sale, which provides that all property is sold as is. All dimensions are approximate. Shipping Information We require prompt payment and removal of your purchases. If you plan to pick up your purchases, please call ahead. We provide limited shipping services; our staff can determine if your items qualify for inhouse shipping. If we are unable to ship your items we will provide you a list of alternative shipping agents. Please note shipping can take 4-6 weeks from receipt of payment, and you will be charged carrier fees, packing and handling, and required insurance. Please review our Conditions of Sale on page 63 before bidding
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rowing up in a family auction business, the line between family and business was often blurred, or was simply non-existent. Family vacations were usually planned around antique shows, and road trips were always interrupted by frequent stops at junk shops, book stores and auctions. Dinner table conversation most nights drifted toward the auction business, mostly about our own company, but often our discussions were infiltrated by talk of Dick Withington, Dick Bourne and Bob Skinner. Along with my grandfather, Robert C. Eldred, Sr., these four men were the leading New England auctioneers in the post-World War II era. While the four were business competitors, they all shared a deep mutual respect and a friendship borne out of their mutual love of the auction business. I recall my grandfather being just as excited about besting his auctioneer friends on the golf course as he was about getting into a great estate. With the Collection of Bob and Nancy Skinner prominently featured in this sale, my thoughts of late have wandered toward the “old days” and how much the auction business has changed. I wonder what the four auctioneers would think of half-empty auction halls and faceless customers bidding on their cell phones. While I am certain they would have embraced the opportunities technology provides, I am just as sure they would have stayed true to their roots because they understood this business is about trust earned over the years, and that a handshake or a phone call is often much more important than an email or text. There has been a recent trend of auction houses merging in an effort to create a global brand, resulting in an increased reliance on technology and automation. What gets lost in the corporatizing of the auction house is the personal relationships between customers and all the people who make the auction house run, from specialists to accountants, shipping coordinators to exhibit staff. At Eldred’s, we are deeply committed to preserving and honoring these personal relationships. We expanded our footprint by opening offices in Connecticut and recently in the Boston area to make it easier to interface with our clients. Of course we stay current -- and hopefully even ahead of the curve -- with advancements in auction technology, but we answer the phone when you call. You can speak directly with an appraiser, you can get a copy of an old invoice, you can make special shipping arrangements, you can even attend some in-person auctions (this sale included!). We will never forget we are nothing without our buyers and sellers. Whether you are an online customer we may never meet in person, or you're a regular face in the crowd at one of our auctions, we aim to treat you with kindness, respect and professionalism, and we will warmly greet you at our door, whether it's a digital or actual door. I look forward to seeing you at the auction, either online or in the saleroom. Unlike so many sales these days, we will have in-person-bidding, just the way Bob Eldred, Dick Withington, Dick Bourne and Bob Skinner would have wanted it.
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SESSION I Wednesday, November 15 at 9:30 a.m. I Lots 4001-4305 Paintings I Oriental Rugs I Decorative Arts I Fine Furniture Cape Cod + Provincetown School Art and Artifacts I More
Featuring an Important Connecticut Collection
SESSION II Thursday, November 16 at 9:30 a.m. I Lots 4401-4862 Sporting Art I Weapons + Militaria I Historic Documents Marine Art I Folk Art I Furniture I Oriental Rugs I More
SESSION III Friday, November 17 at 9:30 a.m. I Lots 4801-4954 The Collection of Bob & Nancy Skinner, a separate catalog
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SESSION I Wednesday, November 15
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Connecticut Collection LOTS 4001-4041
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4001. JOHN FREDERICK KENSETT New York/Connecticut, 1818-1872 “River Marsh, Newport” (Almy’s Pond). Signed with the artist’s monogram lower right. Titled on label verso. Oil on canvas, 10” x 18”. Framed 18” x 25”. 50,000/70,000
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4002. THOMAS DOUGHTY New York/Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, 1793-1856 “Saco Beach, Maine (No.3)”. Inscribed and signed verso “Saco River, Me. Doughty”. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on academy board, 9.25” x 12.25”. Framed 14” x 17”. 25,000/30,000
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4004. LEMUEL D. ELDRED Massachusetts, 1848-1921 “Twilight over the Camden Hills”. Signed and dated lower left “L.D. Eldred 1876”. Oil on canvas, 9” x 14”. Framed 16.5” x 21.5”. 12,000/18,000 Provenance: Eldred’s, August 5, 2005, Lot #775. Godel & Co., New York.
Provenance: Alexander Gallery, New York.
4003. JOHANN HERMANN CARMIENCKE New York/Denmark/Germany, 1810-1867 Expansive river landscape, likely the Hudson. Signed and dated lower right “H. Carmiencke 1865”. Oil on canvas, 12” x 18”. Framed 17” x 23”. 2,000/3,000
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4005. LEMUEL D. ELDRED Massachusetts, 1848-1921 View of the Hudson River. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 9” x 14”. Framed 16.5” x 21.5”. 10,000/15,000 Provenance: Eldred’s, August 5, 2005, Lot #776. Godel & Co., New York.
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4006. CHILDE HASSAM New York/Massachusetts, 1859-1935 “Afterglow, Gloucester Harbor (aka Ten Pound Island Light)”. Signed and dated lower right “Childe Hassam 1890”. Dedicated lower left “To William J. Winch with Hassam’s warmest regards C.H. 1891”. Watercolor on cream wove paper, 14” x 20”. Framed 23.5” x 29”. 50,000/70,000 Provenance: The artist. Gift from the artist to William J. Winch. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York. Dr. and Mrs. John E. Larkin, Jr. Sotheby’s, New York, June 2, 1983, Lot #197. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
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William J. Winch, to whom Hassam dedicated this watercolor, was a concert pianist and tenor who performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra during the 1891-92 season.
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4007. JOHN CARLETON WIGGINS New York/Connecticut/France, 1848-1932 View of the Hudson River. Signed and dated lower left “J.C. Wiggins 18[...]”. Oil on canvas, 12” x 20”. Framed 22.5” x 30.5”. 12,000/18,000 Provenance: John C. Garzoli Paintings, San Francisco, California. Alexander Galleries, New York.
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4008. RARE AND IMPORTANT CHILD’S WARDROBE England, 1709 In the form of a Late 17th Century-style manor. Central façade opens to reveal pegs for hanging clothes. The left side opens to shelves covered in paper simulating bricks. Right side opens to several small drawers with hand-painted fronts. Boldly signed and dated verso “Edmund Joy 1709”. There is only one other known wardrobe of this type, also by Joy but dated 1712, which is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Height 66”. Width 57”. Depth 26”. 70,000/100,000 Provenance: Alistair Sampson Antiques, London, 1986. Illustrated: English Dolls’ Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Vivien Green (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1955), p. 93. Further discussion of the piece p. 99-100. Advertised in The Magazine Antiques, January 1986.
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According to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s description of the 1712
The wardrobe offered here is included in English Dolls’ Houses of the
example, “This was an unusual and probably expensive piece of furniture
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Vivien Green (London: B.T. Batsford
for a lucky child. Resembling a late seventeenth century house from the
Ltd, 1955), p. 99-100, no. 58. Greene called it “Mr Joy’s Surprise”, and,
outside, the doors swing open to reveal shelves, drawers, and pegs for
unaware of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s example, described it as “a thing
hanging clothes […] On the side of the wardrobe is a large signature and date:
singular, unparalleled, a nonesuch”.
Edmund Joy, 1712. This is probably the maker, though nothing is known of At the time of the book’s publication, the wardrobe was owned by Eden
this proud craftsman who so confidently signed his work.”
Minns, a designer for Gordon Russell who worked on the Utility Furniture The museum also writes, “Our familiarity with wardrobes perhaps obscures
project in the 1940s. Having won the gold medal for its “Paris Cabinet” at
how recent this piece of furniture is. In the early 18th century, clothes and
the 1925 Paris International Exhibition and its “Boot Cupboard” highlighted
linen were usually folded and stored flat in chests or ‘clothes presses’. These
for its importance to British design, Gordon Russell and its designers were at
were generally low, with sliding shelves, and they could be beautiful and
the forefront of European furniture making. It is a fitting nod to the innovative
ornately decorated. Clothes, when hung at all, were hooked onto pegs.
nature of this wardrobe for its time that a designer of such strict functional
[...] The word ‘wardrobe’ in the 1710s referred not to a piece of furniture,
forms and clean-lined furniture would have a piece of this decorative nature
but to a room or building where clothes were kept locked away. ‘Ward’ is
in his home.
an Old English word meaning ‘to keep guard, protect, preserve’. With its lockable doors, blind windows and imposing façade, the Joy Wardrobe would
The style of both this and the 1712 Joy wardrobe bear a considerable
certainly have fulfilled this duty, even if it wasn’t called a wardrobe.
resemblance to Kew Palace in west London, a building also known as “The Dutch House”, which dates back to the 17th Century. The scrolled, hipped
"Representing a whole house, but at the scale of a clothes press, the Joy
roofs suggest Dutch influence and a date around the 1680s, rather than the
Wardrobe anticipates the widespread use of movable furniture for hanging
smart, crisp architecture of Queen Anne’s reign (1702-1714).
clothes. It wasn’t just kings and courtiers who wanted to keep their fancy outfits in guarded buildings – but for the middling sort, the buildings didn’t need to be so big! It wasn’t until 1794 that designs for “wardrobes” as we know them appear in furniture catalogues.”
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4009. SERAPI RUG: 8’11" x 14’5" 1890-1910 Ivory field with bold and stylized dark blue, light blue, salmon red, pink, faded gold and green blossoms on stems intermingled with a red meandering garrus vine. Faded gold floral guard borders. Abrashed main border with classic turtle motif. 20,000/30,000
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4010. SERAPI RUG: 9’2" x 12’6" Late 19th Century Broad faded pink central medallion contains a smaller faded ivory medallion and suspends faded green pendants arranged as a cruciform across an otherwise empty red field. Large pink spandrels with traditional blossoming vines in colors to match the medallion. Ivory guard borders with a graceful serpentine flowering vine. Red main border with stylized turtles. 2,500/3,500
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4011. HERIZ RUG: 7’11" x 17’7" Early 20th Century Two columns of red, pink, blue and olive green stylized blossoms and ivory, red and blue scrolling garrus vines cover the length of a navy blue field. Ivory and marine blue guard borders. Red main border with traditional turtles and blossoms. 3,000/5,000
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4012. HERIZ RUG: 7’11” x 9’10” Late 19th/Early 20th Century Faded gold stylized branches bearing bold blossoms and serrated leaves in muted shades of salmon red, light blue and teal green are arranged symmetrically about the center lines of a dark blue field. Light blue and gold guard borders. Salmon red border with turtle motif. 3,000/5,000
4013. KAZAK RUNNER: 3’2" x 8’3" Early 20th Century Four red, ivory, green and blue cross-shaped medallions traverse the length of a navy blue field. Medallions contain and are surrounded by a variety of colorful geometric and floral motifs. Red interior guard border. Ivory main border with wine cups and serrated leaves. 1,000/1,500
4014. KAZAK RUG: 3’5" x 6’3" Late 19th Century Marine blue field with geometric medallions featuring central latch hook elements in brick red, teal, green, brown, ivory and faded yellow. Brick red and abrashed brown guard borders. Ivory main border with wine cup and serrated leaf motif. 500/700
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4015. EXCEPTIONAL SECRÉTAIRE À ABATTANT 19th Century In select mahogany veneer with fruitwood diamond-shaped escutcheons. Full-width upper drawer over a fall front, four varied full-width drawers and flat bracket feet. Fall front encloses fitted interior with architectural inlay. Mechanized drawer releases. Height 56.5”. Width 42”. Depth 19.75”. 3,000/5,000
4016. GEORGIAN TRIPLE-BACK BENCH 18th Century In walnut. Crest rail and splats with extensive foliate carvings. Scrolled-out arms. Cabriole legs with lion’s-mask carvings at knees and paw feet. Arm rests and bench with pale orange and gold damask upholstery. Back height 42.5”. Seat height 20”. Length 88.5”. 2,500/3,500
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4017. ANTIQUE BENTWOOD SETTEE Late 19th/Early 20th Century Under worn salmon-colored paint. Lattice back with heart design. Seats two. Back height 36”. Seat height 16.25”. Length 55”. 800/1,200
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4018. ANTIQUE BENTWOOD ROCKING CHAIR Late 19th/Early 20th Century Bent twig lattice back and curved arms. Molded solid wood seat. Back height 41”. Seat height 16”. 500/1,000
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4019. JOSEPH PENNELL Pennsylvania/New York/United Kingdom, 1860-1926 “Bringing Heroes Home After Zeppelin Explosion”. Signed lower left “Pennell”. Titled on gallery label verso, which is also marked “Collection of Transco Energy Company”. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 6.75” x 9” sight. Framed 15” x 18”. 2,500/3,500
4020. JOSEPH PENNELL Pennsylvania/New York/United Kingdom, 1860-1926 “Brooklyn Bridge Lighting Up”. Signed lower right “Pennell”. Watercolor on paper, 10” x 12.5” sight. Framed 16.5” x 20.5”. 2,500/3,500
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4021. LEON DABO New York/France, 1865-1960 View of the Hudson. Signed lower left “Leon Dabo”. Oil on canvas, 24.5” x 34”. Framed 32.5” x 42.5”. 10,000/15,000 Provenance: Christie’s, New York, May 29, 1987, Lot #155, sold with title “Inlet”.
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4022. STEPHEN FOX Virginia, 1957“Crossing the Hudson”, 2004-2005. Signed “Fox” lower right. Signed, titled and dated on upper stretcher bar. Oil on canvas, 44.5” x 64”. Framed 46.5” x 66”. 6,000/9,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
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4023. STEPHEN FOX Virginia, 1957“River Before a Bend”, 1994. Signed lower right “Fox”. Oil on linen, 35” x 45”. Framed 36.5” x 46.5”. 6,000/9,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
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4024. STEPHEN FOX Virginia, 1957“Overnight”, 2007. Signed lower right “Fox”. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on canvas, 40” x 54”. Framed 42” x 56”. 7,000/10,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
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4025. DONNIE MOLLS California, Contemporary “Call-in Order”, 2006. Signed “Donnie Mills”, titled and dated on a wooden panel affixed to the frame back. Oil on canvas, 48.25” x 56”. Framed 49.75” x 59.75”. 3,000/5,000
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4026. DEAN ELLIS New York/Ohio, 1920-2009 Roadside, East Hampton, New York. Signed lower left “Dean Ellis”. Oil on canvas, 44.5” x 39.5”. Framed 42” x 47.5”. 800/1,200
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4027. MARY ELLEN JOHNSON South Carolina, 1967“Lemon Meringue Pie”, 2012. Signed verso “ME”. Titled on artist’s label verso. Oil on wood panel, 33.25” x 48”. Framed 34.25” x 49”. 5,000/10,000 4027
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4028. TJALF SPARNAAY The Netherlands, 1954“The Lemon”, 2006. Signed and dated lower right “Tjalf Sparnaay 2006”. Signed, titled and dated on upper stretcher bar. Oil on canvas, 17.5” x 27.75”. Framed 19.75” x 29.75”. 8,000/12,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
4029. CLYDE WILLIAM LYNDS New Jersey, 1936“Embers and Ice 1998”. Illuminates in a shifting light pattern. Unsigned. Identified and titled on gallery label. Cast concrete and fiber optics, 37.5” x 10.5”. Height with base 72”. Width 12”. 2,000/3,000
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4030. RANDY DUDLEY Illinois, 1950“Three Bridges and an Aqueduct Crossing Little Vermillion”. Signed and dated lower right “Dudley ‘94”. Oil on board, 10” x 31.25”. Framed 19” x 40”. 8,000/12,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
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4031. RANDY DUDLEY Illinois, 1950“Salvaged Repairs”, 2014. Signed lower left “Dudley”. Oil on paper, 15” x 18”. Framed 22.25” x 25.25”. 7,000/10,000 Provenance: OK Harris Works of Art, New York, with their gallery label on the frame back.
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4032. NATHANIEL RUDD Massachusetts, fl. 1880-1890 “Swampscott and Nahant from Revere Beach”. Signed and dated on the diagonal lower left “N. Rudd 1884”. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on canvas, 15” x 25”. Framed 22” x 33”. 3,000/5,000
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4033. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century Expansive marsh scene. Signed lower right. “A. Mi[...]”. Oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 6.25” x 11.5”. Framed 14” x 19”. 800/1,200
4038. RALPH GOINGS California, 1928Interior diner scene, a study for a larger painting. Signed lower right “R.G.”. Mixed media on paper, 18” x 13.75” sight. Framed 25” x 20.75”. 40,000/60,000
4034. LESGHI STAR KAZAK RUG: 3’3" x 4’6" Late 19th Century Red field with a blue rectangular panel containing three Lesghi stars and a variety of small stylized elements. Delicate red and ivory barber pole guard borders and additional marine blue borders. Ivory main border with a stylized cloud band. 400/600
4039. TURKISH RUG: 3’2" x 4’10" Early 20th Century Marine blue vine creates a lattice-like pattern across an abrashed brick red field. Lattice contains repeated blue, pink, dark brown, pale gold and bright ivory stylized elements. Colorful barber pole guard borders. Bright ivory main border with a repeating colorful stylized element. 250/350
4035. NORTHWEST PERSIAN RUG: 5’3" x 9’6" Second Quarter of the 20th Century A delicate green vine creates a lattice pattern containing a Herati-like pattern of blue, green, pink, red, brown, ivory and yellow blossoms on a red field. Navy blue interior and red exterior guard borders. Gold main border. 500/700
4036. SOUTH PERSIAN RUG: 3’2" x 4’6" Early 20th Century Colorful boteh and intermittent serpentine vines traverse a navy blue field in staggered columns. Ivory guard borders contain a delicate serpentine motif. Dark red main border with stylized blossoms and leaves. Narrow flatweave end panels. 500/700
4040. KILIM RUG: 5’1" x 9’1" First Half of the 20th Century Borderless field composed of alternating bands of small and large red, blue, ivory, orange, dark brown and faded green geometric elements. 300/500
4041. TRIBAL BAG FACE: 2’6" x 5’1" Late 19th/Early 20th Century Bisected bright ivory, red, dark blue, pale yellow and teal tribal medallions are arranged alternately around the perimeter of a burgundy red field. Bright ivory main border with geometric motifs. Broad burgundy end panels with colorful geometric medallions. 200/300
4037. MALAYER RUG: 3’9" x 9’1" Circa 1920-1930 Field composed of a busy array of vines and blossoms in pink, brown, bright ivory, grass green, faded yellow, subdued blue and ivory. Narrow yellow, blue and abrashed pink borders. 500/1,000
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4042. ENGLISH LANTERN CLOCK 17th Century Engraved Roman numeral dial. Face marked “Robt. Mills Taunton”. Height 15.5”. Width 6.5”. 3,000/5,000
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4044. ENGLISH SCHOOL 18th Century or Earlier Portrait of a father and daughter in a library, the father seated at a tapestry-covered table pointing to an open book and the daughter holding an oval portrait of a lady, likely her mother. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 33” x 25.5”. Framed 39” x 31”. 3,000/5,000
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4045. ENGLISH SCHOOL 18th Century Portrait of a gentleman. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”. Framed 31” x 27”. 8,000/12,000 Provenance: Nathan’s Auction, Manchester, Vermont, as Manner of Sir Godfrey Kneller. Labeled “Dashwood Heirloom No. 54” verso, indicating it was likely part of the property by descent to Charles Anthony Dashwood. The Dashwood Heirlooms, removed from Wherstead Park, were sold by direction of Charles E. Dashwood at Christie’s in 1914 and Sotheby’s in 1929.
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4049. FRANÇOIS HENRI NAZON France, 1821-1902 Landscape with a Sèvres factory in the distance. Signed lower left “Nazon”. Label verso for Doll & Richards, Boston. Oil on canvas, 13” x 21.5”. Framed 23” x 32”. 2,000/3,000
4050. HENRY CAMPOTOSTO Belgium, 1833-1910 Mother with her young daughters in a field of flowers. Signed and dated lower right “Campotosto 1867”. Oil on cradled board, 21” x 18.5”. Framed 28” x 22”. 3,000/5,000 4050
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4051. JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER Massachusetts/England/France, 1834-1903 Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles l, 1854. After the oil painting by Paul Delaroche (France, 1797-1856). Signed lower right “J.A.W.”. Included in the Whistler catalogue raisonné at the University of Glasgow. Watercolor on Whatman Millhaus paper, 17.875” x 23.375”. Framed. 20,000/30,000 Provenance: Dr. Henry Coppee (1821-1895), a classmate of Whistler’s at the United States Military Academy West Point, given to Coppee by Whistler. By descent upon Coppee’s death to his daughter, who was married to William Wharton Thurston, president of Bethlehem Iron Works. By descent through the Wharton Family. Gustave White, Newport Estates Auction, August 11, 1993 to the present owner. Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia: Sixty-eighth Annual Exhibition, 1899, No. 159, as “Cromwell at the Bier of Charles 1”. Reference: James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours, A Catalog Raisonne by Margaret F. MacDonald (New Haven, Ct. and London: Yale University Press, 1995), p. 52-53. Notes: Whistler did not see Delaroche’s painting until years after he completed this work. He made the painting based off a print by his friend John Sartain (Pennsylvania, 1808-1897) shown at the Salon in 1831.
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4054. ENGLISH SHELL TEA CADDY 19th Century Compartmented interior. Bun feet. Height 6”. Width 7”. Depth 4”. 2,000/3,000
4057. THERESE SCHWARTZE The Netherlands, 1851-1918 “The Orphan Girls Choir”. Signed and dated upper left “Therese Schwartze 1889”. Oil on canvas, 67” x 79”. Framed 81” x 93”. 10,000/20,000 Provenance: The Newark Museum of Art (deaccessioned).
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Exhibited: The World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, Chicago. Notes: An important exhibition of Schwartze’s work was recently held at Museum Paul Tetar van Elven, Delft, The Netherlands.
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4080. FRANCISCO ZUNIGA Mexico, 1912-1998 “Mujer agachada”. Signed and dated on base “Zuniga 1974”. Bronze with green patina, height 6.5”. Width 7”. Depth 10.5”. 3,000/5,000
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4089. WOLF KAHN New York/Vermont/Germany, 1927-2020 “Tree Scene over Orange”. Signed lower left “W. Kahn”. Titled on label verso. Pastel on paper, 21” x 28” sight. Framed 28” x 35”. 18,000/22,000
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4103. SERAPI RUG: 9’2” x 11’9” Late 19th Century Ivory field with a broad abrashed turquoise, faded red and dark blue gabled medallion above a faded red subfield. Traditional array of flowering vines throughout. Small blue spandrels. Ivory guard border. Faded red main border with an elaborate turtle motif. 1,200/1,800
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4104. EDWARD HENRY POTTHAST New York/Ohio, 1857-1927 “Gloucester Harbor”. Signed lower right “E. Potthast”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 30”. Framed 31” x 37”. 60,000/80,000 Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. David R. Wintermann. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Questroyal Fine Art, New York. Betty Krulik Fine Art, New York. Private Collection, Massachusetts. Exhibited: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (and traveling): “The Best of Times: Intimate American Paintings from the Turn of the Century”, January 1989-January 1992, no. 23.
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4107. ALDRO THOMPSON HIBBARD Massachusetts/Vermont, 1886-1972 “West Valley, Vermont”. Signed lower left “A.T. Hibbard”. Inscribed verso “A.T. Hibbard Rockport, Massachusetts”. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on board, 17” x 20”. Framed 25” x 28”. 8,000/12,000
4108. ALDRO THOMPSON HIBBARD Massachusetts/Vermont, 1886-1972 Sailboats and tug off Cape Ann. Signed lower right “A.T. Hibbard”. Housed in a Guido of Boston frame. Oil on board, 10” x 13”. Framed 15” x 18”. 7,000/9,000
Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston. Exhibited: Rockport Art Association: September 27-October 27, 1996.
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4113. EMILE ALBERT GRUPPE Massachusetts, 1896-1978 “Morning Sun, Gloucester”. Signed lower left “Emile A. Gruppe”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 20” x 24”. Framed 27” x 31”. 10,000/15,000
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4114. EMILE ALBERT GRUPPE Massachusetts, 1896-1978 “Drying Sails”. Signed lower right “Emile A. Gruppe”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 20”. Framed 27.5” x 23.5”. 6,000/9,000
4123. QUEEN ANNE BONNET-TOP HIGHBOY Massachusetts, Circa 1760 In cherry. Broken arch pediment with pinwheel terminals. Upper case with carved fluted pilasters at sides, and three varied side-by-side drawers, the central with shell carving, over four graduated full-width drawers. Lower case with a full-width drawer over three varied side-by-side drawers, the central with matching shell carving. Drawers with molded edges. Cabriole legs end in pad feet. Height 82.5”. Width 37.5”. Depth 20.5”. 3,000/5,000
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4126. SIMON WILLARD TALL-CASE CLOCK Grafton and Roxbury, Massachusetts, Early 19th Century Mahogany case with line inlay. Bonnet with three brass steeple-top finials on plinths joined by pierced fretwork, and an arched glazed dial door flanked by fluted full columns. Arched pendulum door flanked by fluted quarter columns. Both sets of columns with brass caps and stop-fluting. Base panel with exotic wood quarter-fan inlay at each corner. Painted Roman numeral hour dial with outer Arabic numeral minutes dial, subsidiary seconds and calendar dials, and geometric and scroll decoration at the corners. Round painted medallion in crest depicts an eagle clutching a portrait of George Washington wearing a laurel leaf crown. Face signed “S. Willard”. Height 96”. Width 21”. Depth 11”. 20,000/30,000
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4127. FINELY CARVED BOX IN THE MANNER OF SAMUEL FIELD MCINTYRE America, Mid-19th Century Top and front with cornucopia design. Sides with flowers and leaves. Height 5.25”. Width 10.25”. Depth 6”. 1,000/1,500
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4136. EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE PAIR OF "WAR AND PEACE" SPREAD-WING EAGLE PLAQUES BY IVAH W. SPINNEY Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Late 19th/Early 20th Century A very rare example of a pair of period carved and painted American eagles. Well-articulated heads on elegantly curved necks, detailed with pronounced beaks, carved eyes and red painted tongues. The “War” eagle’s head faces right and the “Peace” eagle’s faces left, and both clutch a green painted olive branch and three gold leaf arrows in their talons. Carved and gilded wings taper in thickness toward the tips. Feathers executed in typical Spinney style. Both signed on back of head “Ivah W. Spinney”. Heights approx. 17”. Widths 58”. 25,000/35,000 Please reference eldreds.com for more information about this lot.
Ivah W. Spinney was a carver in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was working at the same period and across the river from
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4137. SYDNEY MORTIMER LAURENCE New York/Alaska/California, 1865-1940 “A St. Ives Fishing Boat”. Signed lower right “S.M. Laurence”. Titled on frame plaque. Watercolor on paper, 10” x 7” sight. Framed 21” x 16”. 3,000/5,000
4139. LAWRENCE MAZZANOVICH North Carolina/Connecticut, 1872-1959 Expansive landscape with trees. Signed lower right “Mazzanovich”. Oil on canvas, 21.5” x 29”. Framed 29” x 36”. 3,000/5,000
4138. GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS California/Connecticut, 1859-1950 “Old Spanish Courtyard, Montserrat”. Signed lower right “George Wharton Edwards”. Titled on label verso for Grand Central Art Galleries, New York. Housed in a NewcombMacklin frame. Oil on canvas, 30” x 30”. Framed 35.5” x 35.5”. 6,000/8,000
4140. WILLIAM B. HAZELTON Massachusetts, 1879-1954 Winter, Beacon Hill, Boston. Signed lower right. Oil on canvas, 30” x 36” sight. Framed 35.5” x 41.25”. 5,000/7,000
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4149. JAMIE WYETH Pennsylvania/Maine/Delaware, 1946“Corbett House”, Monhegan Island, Maine, 1973. Signed lower left “Jamie Wyeth”. Includes copy of the original bill of sale from Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, March 16, 1981. Watercolor, 20.75” x 28.5”. Framed 32” x 40”. 35,000/45,000 The house depicted here is on Monhegan Island, Maine, and was built in 1908. It sits on the path out to Burnt Head, one of the three cliffs on the eastern side of the island. Helen Corbett bought the house in 1953 and owned it until 1980.
4150. D.R. DIMES CHIPPENDALE-STYLE TALL-CASE CLOCK New Hampshire, 20th Century Tiger maple case. Bonnet with three brass steeple-top finials on plinths and an arched glazed dial door flanked by full columns. Arched pendulum door flanked by fluted quarter columns with brass caps and stop fluting. Ogee bracket feet. Roman numeral hour dial with outer Arabic numeral minutes dial, subsidiary seconds dial, and painted decoration of peafowl, floral sprigs, oval medallions and scrolling flourishes. Landscape and moon phase in lunette. Face signed “Douglas R. Dimes Northwood”. Case branded and labeled. Includes weights, pendulum and key. Height 92”. Width 18.5”. Depth 9.5”. 5,000/7,000
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4166. MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE New York/California/Florida/Brazil, 1819-1904 “Scituate Beach, Moonlight”, circa 1870-1875. Signed lower right “M.J. Heade”. Signed and titled in pencil verso “Scituate Beach, Moonlight M.J. Heade”. Oil on artist board, 10” x 12”. Framed 15.5” x 17.5”. 100,000/150,000 Reference: Included in The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. (New Haven, Ct. and London: Yale University Press, 2000), No. 192, p. 250, with illustration. At the time of publication, the work was owned by J. Tracy Wiggin, Bass River, Massachusetts.
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4168. FREDERIC EDWIN CHURCH New York/Connecticut/Mexico, 1826-1900 Allegorical scene with boys and walruses. Signed lower left “E”. Pen and ink and wash on card, 2.5” x 4.75”. Framed 17” x 14.5”. 7,000/10,000 Provenance: Mr. Robert Paul Weimann Sr.. By descent to the current owner, a private collection, Connecticut.
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4169. FREDERICK RONDEL New York/California/France, 1826-1892 Landscape with distant mountains. Signed lower right “F. Rondel”. Oil on canvas, 53” x 86”. Framed 65” x 102”. 7,000/10,000
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4171. FEDERAL SIDEBOARD Mid-Atlantic, Late 18th Century In mahogany and mahogany veneer with fruitwood bellflower and string inlay. Half drawers over two paneled doors flanked by stacks of two drawers. Square tapered legs. Height 38.75”. Width 70”. Depth 24.25”. 900/1,200
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4179. COPPER GODDESS OF LIBERTY WEATHER VANE ATTRIBUTED TO J.W. FISKE, NEW YORK 19th Century Molded full-bodied Liberty wearing a star sash, holding a flag staff and with her foot peeking out from her robes. Green verdigris. Height 45”. Length 20”. 3,000/5,000
4183. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century Niagara Falls. Unsigned. Possibly the work of William M. Hunt. Oil on canvas, 72” x 96". Unframed. 6,000/9,000 4179
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4185. THOMAS BIGELOW CRAIG Pennsylvania, 1849-1924 “A Bright Morning - Woodland Valley Ulster County New York, 1893”. Signed lower left “Thos. B. Craig 1893”. Titled on note verso. Oil on canvas, 24” x 34”. Framed 38” x 48”. 5,000/10,000
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Provenance: Henry Rogers Jackson, New Jersey. Hazel Jackson Coulby, New Jersey. Private Collection, Georgia.
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4186. MANNER OF LEVI WELLS PRENTICE New York/Connecticut, 1851-1935 Still life of apple branches. Unsigned. Label verso for F.W. Devoe and Company, New York. Oil on artist board, 12” x 18”. Framed 18.5” x 24.5”. 3,000/5,000
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4187. DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT Pennsylvania/France, 1839-1924 Two young peasant women in a French landscape. Signed lower left “Ridgway Knight Paris”. Oil on canvas, 22” x 25.5”. Framed 27” x 31”. 20,000/25,000
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4188. WESLEY ELBRIDGE WEBBER Massachusetts/California/Maine, 1841-1914 “The Clamdiggers”. Signed lower left “W. Webber”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 44”. Framed 49” x 30”. 4,000/6,000 Provenance: Private Collection, Montana.
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4206. SERAPI RUG: 10’10” x 14’3” Late 19th Century Overlapping navy blue and ivory central medallions occupy a brick red field hovering above a navy blue subfield. Bold blossoms on meandering vines rendered in faded shades of blue, green, pink, red and gold throughout. Ivory guard borders with a delicate blossoming vine. Brick red main border with an unusual garrus vine and blossom motif. 3,000/4,000
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4213. ELDRED WHEELER TWO-PART BONNET-TOP SECRETARY Massachusetts, 20th Century In tiger maple. Upper case with a broken arch pediment, a carved sunburst and two arched paneled doors. Lower case with a slant lid over four graduated full-width drawers and a shaped bracket base. Fitted interiors. Height 89”. Width 35”. Depth 22”. 4,500/5,500
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4231. WILLIAM L’ENGLE New York/Massachusetts, 1885-1957 “Stonington Mill”. Signed and dated “L’E 34” within the image, to the right of the lower lettering on the mill. Oil on canvas, 24” x 30”. Framed 31.5” x 37.5”. 12,000/18,000 Provenance: The estate of the artist.
Although exhibiting frequently at New York City galleries in the 1920s and 1930s, William L’Engle is most closely associated with the modernist faction of the Provincetown Art Association, which included progressive artists B.J.O. Nordfelt, Karl Knaths, Gerrit Beneker, Blanche Lazzell and Agnes Weinrich. This work reflects the social realism style of this time. On the precipice of the WPA-era, the industrial subject of “Stonington Mill” reflects the movement’s respect for the dignity of the working man and American working-class values.
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4232. BLANCHE (NETTIE BLANCHE) LAZZELL Massachusetts/West Virginia, 1878-1956 “The Mirror”. Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower margin. Inscribed “Woodblock Print Blanche Lazzell 196/5 Provincetown, Mass. November 17th 1927” in pencil verso. A superb impression of this scarce print, with fresh colors. We have found only one other impression at auction in the last 20 years. White-line color woodcut, 14” x 12” to the plate line. Sheet 18” x 16”. Matted 23” x 20”. 30,000/40,000
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4233. ROSS E. MOFFETT Massachusetts/California/Iowa, 1888-1971 Crashing waves. Unsigned but verbally authenticated by Josephine Del Deo to a former owner, who discovered the work in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Oil on canvas, 28” x 33”. Framed 34.5” x 39.5”. 4,000/6,000 Provenance: Private Collection, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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4238. GERRIT ALBERTUS BENEKER Massachusetts/New York/Michigan, 1882-1934 “A Gray Day in Long Nook (Truro, Mass)”. Signed and dated lower right “Gerrit A. Beneker ‘26”. Titled verso. Oil on board, 8” x 10”. Framed 9.5” x 11.5”. 3,000/5,000
4239. GEORGE ELMER BROWNE Massachusetts/Connecticut, 1871-1946 Provincetown pier. Signed and dated lower left “Geo. Elmer Browne 1899”. Oil on canvas, 48.5” x 36.5”. Framed 55” x 43”. 10,000/15,000
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4244. ARTHUR MORRIS COHEN New York, 1928-2012 “Provincetown”. Signed and dated “Arthur Cohen 2002” and titled on stretcher. Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”. Framed 21” x 27”. 3,000/4,000
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4246. ROBERT STARK, JR. Massachusetts, 1933-2014 Red sailboat. Signed lower right “R. Stark”. Oil on canvas, 6” x 8”. Framed 8.5” x 10.5”. 3,000/5,000
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4248. WILLIAM ROBERT DAVIS Massachusetts, 1952“Waiting for a Breeze”. Signed lower right “William R. Davis”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 10” x 20”. Framed 15” x 25”. 5,000/7,000
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4251. JOSEPH MCGURL Massachusetts, 1958“Flight and Pursuit”. Signed lower right “Joseph McGurl”. Signed and dated 2001 verso. Titled on label verso for Tree’s Place Gallery, Orleans, Massachusetts. Oil on panel, 16” x 20”. Framed 24” x 28”. 7,000/10,000
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4261. ATTRIBUTED TO SANDY MORAN Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1944-2020 Sailor’s valentine composed of multicolored shells surrounding a central painting of a friendship sloop. Unsigned. Housed in a nicely figured tiger maple octagonal box. 12” x 12”. 1,500/2,500
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4268. MITCHELL RAY NANTUCKET BASKET Nantucket, 1877-1956 Oval, with swing handle. Traces of original label. Height 6”. Length 13.5”. 1,000/1,500
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4278. ROBERT CARDINAL Massachusetts/New York/Canada, 1936Hobb’s Farm, Truro, Massachusetts. Signed lower right “Cardinal”. Titled on stretcher. Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”. Framed 23” x 27”. 3,000/5,000
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4279. JOHN DOWD Massachusetts, 1960Houses on Shank Painter Road, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Signed lower left “J. Dowd”. Oil on linen, 28” x 40”. Framed 32.5” x 44.5”. 7,000/9,000
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4285. ANNE PACKARD New Jersey/Massachusetts, 1933“Summer Sail”. Signed lower left “A. Packard”. Signed, titled and inscribed “Provincetown, MA 2006” verso. Oil on canvas, 30” x 30”. Framed 36” x 36”. 10,000/15,000
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4287. CHARLES WEBSTER HAWTHORNE Massachusetts/New York, 1872-1930 Lady with roses. Signed lower left “C. Webster”. Oil on canvas, relined on board, 43” x 34”. Framed 49” x 40”. 12,000/16,000 Provenance: Sloan’s. Private Collection, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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4289. RALPH EUGENE CAHOON, JR. Massachusetts, 1910-1982 Motif #1, Rockport. Signed lower right “R. Cahoon”. Oil on masonite, 23.5” x 32.5”. Framed 30” x 37.5”. 35,000/45,000
4288. RALPH EUGENE CAHOON, JR. Massachusetts, 1910-1982 “Capt. John P. Jones Requiescant in Pace”. Signed lower right “R. Cahoon”. Oil on masonite, 17” x 14”. Framed 29” x 25”. 12,000/15,000
Provenance: Eldred’s, March 28, 2003, Lot #697. Private Collection, Rhode Island.
Provenance: Eldred’s, November 22, 1996, Lot #1095. Private Collection, Rhode Island.
4290. RALPH EUGENE CAHOON, JR. Massachusetts, 1910-1982 “Cape Cod Bank and Trust”. Signed lower right “R. Cahoon”. Oil on masonite, 12” x 16”. Framed 18” x 22”. 18,000/22,000
Exhibited: Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts: “Consider the Source: Influences on Ralph and Martha Cahoon’s Early Paintings”, August 8-October 1, 2006.
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4403. RARE MONHEGAN ISLAND OVERSIZE EIDER DRAKE DECOY Maine, Early 20th Century Maker unknown. Found in a Falmouth, Massachusetts home. Wonderful stylized paint and carved bill. Branded “06” near tail. Length 17”. 10,000/15,000
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4410. A. ELMER CROWELL MINIATURE GOOSE East Harwich, Massachusetts, 1862-1952 Circa 1928. In flying form. Rectangular stamp. Length 8”. 2,500/3,000
4411. A. ELMER CROWELL LARGE-SCALE MINIATURE WOODCOCK East Harwich, Massachusetts, 1862-1952 Circa 1928. Mounted on an oval base. Rectangular stamp. Height 4.5”. 2,000/3,000 4411
4434. RARE JOSEPH LINCOLN MINIATURE CANADA GOOSE Accord, Massachusetts, 1859-1938 In sleeping form. Unmarked. Length 5”. 2,000/3,000 4434
4436. PAIR OF GEORGE BOYD MINIATURE CANADA GEESE Seabrook, New Hampshire, 1873-1941 One in swimming form. Lengths 4.5” and 6”. 2,000/3,000
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4448. AIDEN LASSELL RIPLEY Massachusetts/New York, 1896-1969 “Three Partridges on a Pitch Pine”. Signed lower left “A. Lassell Ripley”. Titled verso. Watercolor on paper, 18” x 29” sight. Framed 27” x 38”. 20,000/30,000
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4454. RARE HW DEHAVEN DOUBLE-BARREL LONG GUN Circa 1820 Approx. 28-bore. Converted to percussion. Brass hardware. Length of barrels 46.25”. Total length 62”. 3,000/5,000
4471. GEORGE WASHINGTON AUTOGRAPH Dated 1783 Portion of a document “Given at HeadQuarters the 8 Day June 1783”. Signed “G Washington”. Also “By His Excellency’s Command” signed “J Trumbull Jr.”. Jonathan Trumbull was serving as a secretary on Washington’s staff at the time. Document 2.75” x 6.25” sight. Framed 10” x 12”. 10,000/15,000
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4474. RARE HAND-DRAWN MAP OF PHILADELPHIA 19th Century “Stephens plan of the city of Philadelphia”. May be an early copy of Thaddeus Steven’s (1792-1868) published map of the same name. Executed in black ink on paper. 12” x 15”. Unframed. 1,000/2,000
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4480. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century Trompe l’oeil of scattered calling cards of West Point cadets and central “Graduating Class 1855 U.S. Military Academy” card against vignettes of the campus and its surroundings. Unsigned, but possibly by or attributed to Francis Laurens Vinton, who was one of the 44 graduates in the Class of 1855. Each calling card is signed by a cadet and inscribed with his hometown; these autographs are historically significant as 31 of the class served in the Civil War, including Alexander Webb, William Woods Averell, David McMurtrie Gregg, Francis Redding, Tillou Nicholls, Francis Shoup, Alfred Thomas, Archimedes Torbert and John Wesley Turner. Vignettes include the view from Trophy Point looking down the Hudson River; a cadet with a young woman; cadets on guard duty; a cadet smoking at his desk that is stacked with papers and books, one titled “Kane”; and a scene of cadets and Superintendent Robert E. Lee. Watercolor and ink on paper, 21.5” x 28.5”. Framed 26.5” x 34”. 10,000/20,000 Provenance: General Alexander Stewart Webb, then through descent. Please reference eldreds.com for more information about this lot.
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4484. GOLD RING BELONGING TO COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY Late 18th/Early 19th Century Set with a shield-shaped carnelian intaglio carved with a spread-wing eagle atop a shield containing a fouled anchor. Carnelian was the historic birthstone for August, the month of Perry’s birth. According to an accompanying note, the ring was given to Perry by his mother and it passed down through the family to the last male descendant. No discernible marks. 10,000/15,000 Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819) was a member of the famed Perry family
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naval dynasty. He is known primarily for his heroic role during the War of 1812’s Battle of Lake Erie and for his message to General William Henry Harrison, in which he wrote, “We have met the enemy and they are ours”. While on a mission to Venezuela in 1819 he contracted yellow fever and died aboard ship on his 34th birthday.
4487. ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN MCFARLANE Massachusetts/United Kingdom, 1834-1871 “The Packet Sunbeam of Boston Picking Up the Liverpool Pilot in Heavy Gale”. Unsigned. Inscribed lower right “Ship Sunbeam, from Boston Bound to Liverpool off Point Lynas, taking a Pilot In a heavy Gale of S.W. Wind 3d April 1850”. Titled on frame plaque. Watercolor, 18” x 25.5” sight. Framed 26.5” x 34.25”. 4,000/6,000
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4488. ATTRIBUTED TO DUNCAN MCFARLANE Massachusetts/United Kingdom, 1834-1871 Portrait of the ship Plymouth Rock. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 31” x 43”. 20,000/30,000
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4498. ANTONIO NICOLO GASPARO JACOBSEN New York/New Jersey/Denmark, 1850-1921 Portrait of the Somerset. Signed and dated lower right “Antonio Jacobsen New York 1872”. Oil on canvas, 21” x 35”. Framed 30” x 44”. 14,000/18,000
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4501. SPERM WHALE-FORM BOX Circa 1935 Three-dimensional whale carved from pine and painted black. Charmingly detailed with eyes, mouth, fins and a graceful tail. Form may have been copied from David Baker cast iron whale ornaments made in New Bedford in the 1840s. Small hole in the side to fit a harpoon. Top lifts open to a storage compartment. Interior of top with ink inscription “This sperm whale model was handcarved by an employee of the State Street Trust Co. It was part of the center decoration of a thirty foot long table on the back piazza at ‘Broadfields’, Westwood. Allan Forbes and Josephine Crosby Forbes, married in 1913, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at a ‘Whaling Gam’ and this whale was accompanied by a model of a full rigged whaling ship and a whale boat. ... About 80 people sat down to dinner. I was 13 and was there.”, signed by H.A. Crosby Forbes, December 15, 1989. Forbes (1925-2012) was the grandson of a China Trade captain and a leading scholar of Asian Export art. Height 6”. Length 23”. 3,000/5,000
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4519. OTIS S. WEBER New York/Massachusetts, 1847-1888 Ships at sunset. Signed and dated lower right “Otis S. Weber 85”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 36” x 47”. 3,000/5,000
4521. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century Portrait of the ship Rutland. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 22.5” x 36”. Framed 31” x 43”. 3,000/5,000
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4528. WILLIAM EDWARD NORTON Massachusetts/United Kingdom, 1843-1916 “Fishing Boats, Early Morning 1876”. Signed and dated lower right “W.E. Norton 1876”. Oil on canvas, 24.25” x 40.25”. Framed 32.5” x 49”. 5,000/10,000 Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston.
4533. ATTRIBUTED TO HIN QUA 19th Century “The Clipper Ship Reporter”. Unsigned. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on canvas, 23” x 32.25”. Framed 29” x 38”. 4,000/6,000 Provenance: Marine Arts Company, Salem, Massachusetts.
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4557. PENNSYLVANIA BLANKET CHEST 18th Century In walnut. Molded lid attached with iron hinges. Front panel with floral and star inlay. Half drawers below blanket compartment. Shaped bracket base. Height 26”. Width 52”. Depth 25”. 2,000/3,000
4582. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century Portrait of a boy with a fishing pole and a fly. Unsigned. Oral family history from the consignor’s family claims this to be the work of William Sidney Mount. Oil on canvas, 36” x 28”. Framed 40” x 30.5”. 3,000/5,000
4568. ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH WHITING STOCK Massachusetts, 1815-1855 Portrait of a child seated beside a dog and a doll in a toy cradle. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 29” x 36”. Unframed. 5,000/10,000
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4598. ATTRIBUTED TO CLARISSA PETERS (MRS. MOSES B.) RUSSELL Massachusetts, 1809-1854 Miniature watercolor portrait on ivory of a young girl wearing a blue dress and holding an apple. Unsigned but bearing several characteristics of Russell’s work, including the striated background with a subtle “halo” around the girl’s head, the prominent eyes, the finely delineated eyebrows and fingernails, the nearly imperceptible line at the wrist that separates the forearm from the hand, the delicate details on the dress and the vividly colored apple. Oval 2.75” x 2.25”. Framed 3” x 2.375”. 2,500/3,500 Reference: “Mrs. Moses B. Russell Boston Miniaturist” by Randall L. Holton and Charles A. Gilday, The Magazine Antiques, December 1999, p. 816-823. In her day, Clarissa Peters Russell was a well-known miniaturist, specializing in portraits of children. Her work was so favored that when she died from a violent case of seasickness, the news made the front page
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of Boston newspapers. Over time, however, like many women artists, she faded into obscurity. Because she rarely signed her paintings, many of them were misattributed to her husband, also a miniaturist, or to itinerant portraitist Joseph Whiting Stock.
4603. UNUSUAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER WITH ADAM AND EVE MOTIF America, Early 19th Century “Elizabeth Smith is my nam Roxborough is my station heven is my dwelling. Place and christ is my salvation and when I am dead and In my grave my bones are their a rotten and this you see to Remember Me when I am forgotten 1819 [all sic]” above an image of Adam and Eve standing beside an apple tree with a snake coiled around the trunk and holding an apple its mouth. Lower panel with “Adam and Eve” and trees, a dog, a house, a potted flowering plant and a bird. Flower and vine border. 19” x 13.5”. Unframed. 2,000/3,000
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4612. SHAKER TAILOR’S COUNTER 19th Century Butternut frame with pine countertop and drawers. Shows traces of bittersweet paint. Hinged drop leaf supported by straight legs. Case with two stacks of three drawers. Wooden pulls. Height 36”. Length 84”. Depth 33”. 2,000/4,000 4612
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4630. ERASTUS SALISBURY FIELD Massachusetts/New York, 1805-1900 Pair of half-length portraits, a gentleman in a black coat and yellow vest and a woman in a lace bonnet. Unsigned but accompanied by letter from Ellen K. Glennon of the NewYork Historical Society stating the works are by Field. Oils on canvas, 25” x 20”. Framed 30” x 25”. 3,000/5,000 Provenance: Private Collection, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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4641. FIVE OVAL PANTRY BOXES 19th Century Natural finish. Lengths from 3.5” to 13”. 1,000/1,500
4649. TALL GREEN PAINTED PIE SAFE, PROBABLY SHENANDOAH VALLEY, VIRGINIA 1840-1860 In yellow pine. Two sets of doors. Pierced tin door and side panels with elaborate fylfot, pinwheel and heart designs. Height 74”. Width 43”. Depth 17”. 2,000/4,000
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4652. AMERICAN SCHOOL 19th Century “Fairmont Waterworks, Philadelphia”. Unsigned. Identified on label verso. Oil on canvas, 19” x 23”. Framed. 1,500/2,500 Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, New York.
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4657. RARE SETH THOMAS OFF-CENTER PILLAR AND SCROLL CLOCK Mid-19th Century Glasses appear to be original. Height 29.5”. Width at base 17.5”. Depth 4”. 1,200/1,600
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4686. LARGE COPPER APOTHECARY TRADE SIGN Late 19th/Early 20th Century In the form of a mortar and pestle. Metal mount. Height of mortar and pestle 24”. Total height with mount 42”. 800/1,200
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4689. RARE CARNIVAL BANNERS AND BROADSIDES Circa 1905 Found in a barn in Orleans, Massachusetts. Includes: 1) Red cotton banner with “Admission 10¢.” around an image of a mermaid. 2) Red cotton banner with “Today 5¢”. 3-4) Two cardboard broadsides “Please Read Carefully This strange creature was captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]”. 5) Cardboard broadside “Please Read Carefully Beautiful Mermaid said to have been captured alive on the coast of Brazil, South America, June 17, 1904 [...]”. Banners to 50” x 28”. Broadsides 14.5” x 11”. 500/1,000
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4713. BIDJAR RUG: 11’0” x 17’6” Circa 1910-1920 A stout green vine bears an orderly array of red, blue, green, pink, brown, gold and ivory blossoms and palm fronds throughout a dark blue field. Blue and ivory guard borders with serpentine vines. Broad red main border with serpentine marine blue leaves and bold blossoms. 3,000/5,000
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I L L U S T R AT I O N S I N T H I S C ATA L O G Front Cover Lot 4028 Rear Cover (clockwise from top right) Lots 4434, 4471, 4449, 4294 Page 3 Lot 4008 Page 5 Lot 4126 This page Lot 4206 68
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