Auction Highlights
More than doubling its low estimate, an Italian classical Jasperware giltwood folding screen, 82 ½ inches tall by 86 inches wide, was purchased by a LiveAuctioneers bidder for $4,560 in Point Pleasant Galleries’ Oct. 15 Outrageous New York City sale.
LampsandArtGlass.com saw 88 items, or 24.7 percent of their Oct. 14 Important Estate & Lamp Auction inventory change hands through LiveAuctioneers. A leaded-glass Tiffany Studios art-glass floor lamp with mottled green glass in a “brick” arrangement, with spots of orange and mauve highlighting the glass throughout, was a big winner. Signed Tiffany Studios New York 1501 on its 22-inch (diameter) shade and also signed on its heavy bronze base, the lamp was purchased online for $39,200.
In Doyle New York’s Oct. 11 Doyle at Home sale, two oil-on-canvas artworks by French artist Pierre Bittar (b. 1934) tied for top lot sold via the Internet. This 24 by 36 inch, artist-signed painting titled Champs de Fleurs (Field of Flowers), attracted 13 bids before selling to a LiveAuctioneers bidder for $6,737.
In Historic Americana’s Oct. 7 auction of Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts, 137 lots sold via the Internet, including a signed oil-on-canvas artwork by American Luminist School painter Charles P. Appel (1857-1928). Landscape at Dusk had been estimated at $3,000-4,000 but ended up selling online for $9,001.20.
An especially well-dressed 19th century Francois Gaultier fashion doll was offered complete with a dome-top trunk filled with accessories in Noel Barrett’s Sept. 30-Oct. sale of contents of the Mary Merritt Doll Museum. The 16-inch clotheshorse exceeded estimate to sell online for $4,720.
Auction Team Breker, based in Cologne, Germany, sold 20% of the inventory in its Sept. 30-Oct. 1 auction of Photographica & Film to Internet buyers. A fully restored Mutoscope with an Indian head and eagle motif came complete with a viewable Charlie Chaplin film. Bidders pushed it to a remarkable online finish at $11,122.
