Auction Highlights
German porcelain attracted heavy interest in Dallas Auction Gallery’s Jan. 23 sale of furniture, bronzes, silver and antiques. A circa-1900 Meissen-style 12-light porcelain chandelier decorated with putti and floral-encrusted pendants was purchased through LiveAuctioneers for $13,475.
In Harlowe-Powell’s Jan. 25-26 Period furniture, Silver, Orientalia & Rugs sale an early 18th-century Continental refectory table, probably Italian, hand hewn and carved and mounted on a trestle base, attracted a winning online bid of $9,600 against an estimate of $2,000-$4,000.
LiveAuctioneers bidders saddled up and bid with gusto in High Noon’s 2008 Western Americana sale on Jan. 26. The top Internet lot, at $30,000, was a fantastic Edward H. Bohlin Alford Model parade saddle decorated with heavy gauge sterling silver and solid gold adornments, each depicting a horse, steer or other Western motif.
More than 25 percent of Alex Cooper’s Jan. 25-26 Important Antiques Auction was sold via LiveAuctioneers, including a Pavel Osipovich Kovalevsky (Russian, 1843-1903) oil-on-canvas painting titled Peasants’ Struggle on Muddy Path. Artist-signed, the 1874 artwork continued the blazing run by Russian art in the marketplace, selling for $60,000 against an estimate of $7,000-$10,000.
Early American highlights in Alex Cooper’s Jan. 25-26 Important Antiques Auction were led by a circa-1780 American Chippendale faux-painted, glazed-panel, two-part architectural corner cupboard, 95 inches tall and from the Mid-Atlantic region. It sold through LiveAuctioneers for $48,000, six times its high estimate.
An American classic, this 1948 ash- and mahogany-paneled Chrysler Town & Country convertible, popularly referred to as a “woodie,” breezed away for ride in the country with a LiveAuctioneers bidder behind the wheel. It sold for $141,250 in RM Auctions’ Jan. 18 Automobiles of Arizona sale.
