Fine exhibition model Champion workplow. Estimate: $20,000/$30,000. Image courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
The auction features American folk art, furniture, decorative arts and paintings, as well as Asian and Continental works. Highlights include a Regina music box, and a fine exhibition model Champion work plow.
“This sale underscores the great diversity in things American, and things Americans kept and treasured. It is also, to me, an indication of sellers coming back to auction with great items, so they must feel some confidence in buyers as well,” said Diane Wachs, director of Fine and Decorative Art.
Fine and Decorative Art Senior Specialist Janet Rogers, notes, “It’s going to be a great sale for American decorative arts. We have a great collection of silver, lamps, and early furniture, including an ornate Mitchell Rammelsberg hall stand. We also have a nice selection of Regina music boxes, as well as some rare Rookwood, art glass and metalware by Tiffany.”
A fine exhibiton model Champion workplow is estimated to sell for $20,000/$30,000. The plow was made in Springfield, Ohio, by the Champion Machine Co. A three-quarter model of carved rosewood, the plow was intended to extol the advancements of the Champion Co’s chilled plow.
A seven-volume set by John James Audubon’s The Birds of America is expected to bring anywhere from $15,000/$20,000. This set contains drawings made in the United States and its territories. It also includes 500 lithographic plates with tissue covers.
A painting by Elizabeth Nourse is expected to sell for $20,000/$30,000. Titled French Cathedral, the painting is signed and dated with the artist’s name and her title on verso. Elizabeth Nourse was a portrait and a landscape painter born in Cincinnati in 1859. Some of her works can be seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
A fine Regina music box is estimated to bring $20,000/$25,000.
A Demetre Chiparus Amis De Toujours bronze is estimated at $8,000/$10,000. The bronze depicts a figure of an Art Moderne woman with an ivory face and hands, flanked by Irish wolfhounds and mounted on a marble base.
A Mitchell Rammelsberg hall tree is estimated to sell anywhere between $8,000/$10,000.
A Fine coin silver presentation pitcher is expected to bring $9,000/$12,000. This monumental presentation pitcher of inverted pear form has chased and repoussed elaborate decoration and has an engraved dedication, “To the Captain of the Cunard Line’s Britannica,” with marks for Gayle, Wood, & Hughes, a New York silversmith firm.
A bucolic landscape by Carleton Wiggins, oil on canvas, is estimated at $5,000/$6,000. Carleton Wiggins’ work owes much to the Barbizon style of his teacher, George Innes. First exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1870, the academy nominated Wiggins as a member in 1892. Wiggins’ most celebrated works include ones that, similar to this example, depict grazing herds amid Barbizon pastoral landscapes.
Quadrupeds of North America, in three volumes, by John James Audubon is estimated to bring anywhere between $4,000/$6,000. This hardcover three-volume set by Audubon and his collaborator the Rev. John Bachman includes 155 colored plates.
An Anna Pottery stoneware railway pig bottle is estimated at $4,000/$6,000.
A China trade plaque for the American market is expected to sell for $10,000/$15,000. The plaque is carved and painted wood, and depicts an eagle clutching three half-furled American flags under a banner reading “E Pluribus Unum,” all on a field of stars, surrounded by a delicately carved oval frame with Chinese motifs.
To learn more about Cowan’s auction visit the company’s website at www.cowans.com or phone 513-871-1670.
ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
‘French Cathedral’ by Elizabeth Nourse. Estimate: $20,000/$30,000. Image courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Regina music box. Estimate: $20,000/$25,000. Image courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Mitchell Rammelsberg, Cincinnati, hall tree. Estimate: $8,000/$10,000. Image courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
China trade plaque for American market. Estimate: $10,000/$15,000. Image courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.