The Living Estate of Earldine Ankiewicz, 93, Will Be Sold On-Site, June 27th

May 28,2015 - SOUTHPORT, Fla. – Hundreds of antiques, collectibles, furniture pieces and other items from the estate of Earldine Ankiewicz, 93, a longtime Florida resident and collector in a wide range of categories, plus items from other prominent local estates and collections, will be sold on-site Saturday, June 27th, at Mrs. Ankiewicz’s residence near Deer Point Lake in Southport, a suburb of Panama City (zip: 32409).

The auction will start at 8 a.m. Central time, with online bidding via LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. It will be conducted by The Specialists of the South, Inc., based in Panama City. “Earldine liked anything old and had no particular passion, but she had a sharp eye and what she did collect is highly sought after today,” said Logan Adams of The Specialists of the South, Inc.

Sold will be Flow Blue and Mulberry china patterns, primitives, Ironstone pitchers, Wedgwood (blue and white and green and white) and quality reproduction furniture, made correctly with pride and attention to detail. Also sold will be items from Ms. Ankiewicz’s daughter, now deceased, who collected Orientalia (netsukes, Satsuma, a snuff bottle, cloisonné) and rugs.

Ms. Ankiewicz was an accomplished artist, having studied under Mariette Paine Slayton, the author of Early American Decorating Techniques, for 15 years. She produced beautiful theorems done on cotton velveteen, quilts, coverlets (knit and crochet), trunk painting and decoupage and tole painting on trays worked in gold, silver and bronze leaf. 

Related to her penchant for arts and crafts, items of note will include a handsome spool chest with six labeled drawers, each indicating what was inside, and advertising on the back (the side that would face the customer) for J & P Coats, with a graphic of a spool of thread; and a Singer portable sewing machine dating to the early 20th century, operational and in pristine condition.

One item certain to attract attention is a signed and dated (1929) ink and wash on paper drawing of a cat by the noted Asian artist Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968). The work measures 7 ¼ inches by 10 ¼ inches, sight (15 inches by 18 ½ inches framed). A cat drawing by Foujita, also from 1929, recently sold at William A. Bunch Auctioneers for $1,331 (including the buyer's premium).

Collectors will be dazzled by the wide array of offerings, to include antique brass candlesticks (with push-up), an antique wall candle holder, a tea caddy and writing box with mother-of-pearl inlay, Mulberry Ironstone transfer ware, white Ironstone pitchers and serving pieces, woven and glass baskets, hand-painted tole trays, dated hand-painted trunks and 10 hand-made quilts.

Four quilt racks will also be sold, the nicest one with barley twist. The list continues with about 13 pieces of cloisonné, a wonderful collection of pigs (to include Lladro, Belleek and Bing & Grondahl), Fenton, blue glass, Baccarat, a Waterford sea horse, Stuart crystal, glass fruit and flowers, decanters, Indiana glass (to include a circa 1970-1984 blue glass Jolly Mountaineer liquor decanter), paperweights, glassware and bone carvings.

Source: News-antique.com

Hong Kong Gets Set For Asia Week Events

Attracting collectors and experts from around the world, the third edition of ‘Asia Week Hong Kong’ will take place from May 27 to June 11. 

Dubbed the Heritage edition, the not-for-profit event brings together leading dealers, auction houses galleries, museums and cultural institutions in the area to create a programme that spans antiquities to contemporary works of art.

The events are free to the public and include private viewings at Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams; a lecture by Jessica Harrison-Hall, the British Museum's Chinese ceramics curator; a collectors' roundtable; and a lecture on netsuke and sagemono by dealer Robert Fleischel.

Ahead of their Asian sales in June at Crosshall Manor in Cambridgeshire, auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull are sponsoring the opening ceremony at Hong Kong's China Club in partnership with their sister company Freeman's of Philadelphia.

Source: Antiquestradegazette.com

Delhi's World Heritage Bid Withdrawn

Delhi's bid to become the nation's first world heritage city has been withdrawn. Over a decade of planning and five years of preparation later, the Centre took back Delhi's nomination for a Unesco world heritage city tag, according to an announcement on the UN body's website on Thursday , reports Richi Verma.

Embarrassingly for India, the withdrawal means there will be no Indian nomination (in either the cultural or natural category) that will be reviewed next month during the world heritage committee session in Bonn.No official reason has been given for the decision.

Source: The Times Of India

Real Antique Wood Wins NWFA Wood Floor Of The Year

Irvington, N.J.—Real Antique Wood, the New Jersey-­based company known for custom reclaimed wood décor, was this year’s recipient of the National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA)Wood Floor of the Year award under the Best Limited Species category. The award was presented at the NWFA 2015 Wood Flooring Expo in St. Louis, Mo., in April.

“We’re thrilled that so many people are enthusiastic about the project,” said Gary Horvath, co-owner of Real Antique Wood. “It’s one that we’ve been excited to share and it perfectly demonstrates the type of work we pride ourselves on. We can’t believe the international interest this project has attracted—from South Africa to Israel.”

The winning design features walnut slabs from fallen trees during Hurricane Sandy in 2013. After three years of kiln drying, the wood was moved to the site of the project in Pompton Plains, N.J., for installation.

Source: Fcnews.net

Stunning delft chargers take £34,500 in Exeter

The two outstanding blue dash chargers offered at a recent sale held by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter form part of a small but distinctive group of early 18th century delft dishes boldly painted with a variety of quirky bird, animal and figure subjects.

The late Tristram Jellinek wrote a number of articles on the subject in the 1970s and '80s, speculating these may have been decorated by the same wonderfully inventive hand. All were probably made in Lambeth c.1720-40.

The auctioneers had been aware of these two chargers for more than a decade and finally coaxed them from the owner earlier this year. The parents of the vendor purchased them from a Scarborough antiques shop more than 50 years ago.

One previously unknown design depicts Pulcinella in a jester's costume and sugar loaf hat striding between sponged trees. A popular figure in London and provincial theatres from the 1660s, he is typically shown carrying a slapstick but here holds a large sword in his left hand and smokes a pipe.
Although hampered by some condition issues (several hairline cracks), it sold at £11,500 (estimate £4000-6000) at the auction on April 21-22.

Its pair shows a large peacock on full display and was, said BHL specialist Nic Sainty, "literally pristine". This time, with the guide pitched a little lower at £3000-5000, bidding reached £23,000.
Both were purchased in the room by the trade on behalf of a private collector.

Written By: Roland Arkell

Source: Antiquestradegazette.com

Dealers Eskenazi Secure Tang Ewer at Sotheby’s

Modelled in the form of a Sasanian metal ewer and applied with Hellenistic-inspired decoration, the 14½in (37cm) high piece sold well above its £40,000-60,000 guide to London dealers Eskenazi for £2.3m at Sotheby's on May 13.

It had been consigned by a private Japanese collector and bore a label for the early 20th century collection of Paris-based Chinese art dealer L Wannieck.

Sotheby's also secured a bid of £3.3m from the Asian trade for a 5½in (14cm) Xuande blue and white facetted vase during the sell-out single-owner sale of Tokyo collector Tsuneichi Inoue.

The price was the highest of the series as ATG went to press, with a further sale at Christie's still to go. 

A longer report on the Asian art series of auctions will appear in a future issue of ATG's printed weekly publication.

Source: Antiquestradegazette.com

Christie’s billion dollar week of sales as Contemporary art market inflates further

Added to the $705.85m (£455.4m) generated by their Looking Forward to the Past auction on Monday, the result meant Christie's could trumpet the fact that they had staged the world's first billion dollar art week.

The company's international head of post-war and Contemporary art Brett Gorvy commented after the sale that buyers "were willing to stretch and stretch some more to have the best."

The 82-lot sale achieved a sell-through rate of 88% with 72 works finding buyers on the night. No fewer than 49 lots had guaranteed prices financed either directly by the auctioneers or via a third party.

The top lot was one such work - Mark Rothko's (1903-1970) No. 10 from 1958 which the owner had bought from The Pace Gallery, New York in1986. It came to auction with an unpublished estimate but seven bidders chased it over the $50m mark before it was knocked down at $73m (£49.3m) to an anonymous buyer bidding through Brett Gorvy on the phone.

The earthy colours and size of the oil on canvas made it a more challenging work within the artist's oeuvre. But, dating from the year that Rothko began his Seagram Murals where the artist explored new forms and colour harmonies, the 7ft 10in x 5ft 9in (2.39m x 1.76m) oil on canvas was deemed a more contemplative piece of abstraction than  Untitled (Yellow and Blue) from 1954 that led Sotheby's sale of Contemporary art in New York the night before.

Freud's Nude

Elsewhere at Christie's, a record came for Lucian Freud (1922-2011) when Benefits Supervisor Resting sold at a top-estimate $50m (£33.8m). It was knocked down in the room to London dealer Pilar Ordovas who was bidding for a client and saw off competition from three phones.

Estimated at $30m-50m, the vendor had bought it from New York dealers Acquavella in 1995 and it was another lot with a guaranteed minimum price.

The 4ft 11in x 5ft 4in (1.51 x 1.61m) oil on canvas from 1994 depicted Freud's model Sue Tilley and it exceeded $30m (£16.1m) paid for another nude painting of the same subject at Christie's New York in May 2008 which was reportedly purchased by Roman Abramovich.

The flagship fortnight of auctions in the Big Apple continues tonight with Christie's sale of Impressionist & Modern art.

The buyer's premium at Christie's New York was 25/20/12%.

£1 = $1.48

Source : Antiquestradegazette.com