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New York debut delights Copley
By Virginia Bohlin
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
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There was a great deal of anticipation leading up to
Copley Fine Art Auctions’ first foray into the Big Apple
last month, admits Stephen B. O’Brien Jr., chairman
of the Newbury Street gallery.
Would buyers show up at the new auction site?
Would the doldrums of the decoy market finally
break?
Would Copley’s cross-marketing move with Keno
Auctions of New York bring in new clients?
All of these questions were answered with ‘‘a resounding yes,’’ O’Brien says, when the auction ended
with a gross of over $1,550,000. The presale estimate for the items sold had been $1.1 million$1.75 million.
The Jan. 17 auction in Wallace Hall at the
Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue saw
five auction records set, including by a Canada
goose made around 1917 by John Tax (1894-1967)
of Osakis, Minn. One of only six known feeding
stick-up Canada goose decoys carved by Tax, it
brought the auction’s top price of $115,000, nearly
doubling the high of its $40,000-$60,000 estimate.
The Tax decoy was followed by a pair of circa
1905 goldeneyes by A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952),
the master carver of East Harwich, which sold for
$109,250 against a $40,000-$60,000 estimate. The
pair, which had sold at auction for $24,150 in 2000,
was out of the Crowell decoy rig ordered by John Ware
Willard, grandson of Boston clockmaker Simon Willard (1753-1848).
Four of the top 10 lots sold were by Crowell, including, in addition to the goldeneyes, a circa 1915 Hudsonian curlew that brought $74,750 (estimate: $60,000$90,000), and a golden plover ($48,875) and a running plover ($37,375), each with a $15,000-$25,000
estimate.
A circa 1925 mallard drake by another Massachusetts carver, Joseph W. Lincoln (1859-1938) of Accord,
brought the auction’s third highest price of $86,250,
more than quadrupling the low of its $20,000$30,000 estimate. A circa 1890 canvasback drake by
Lee Dudley (1860-1942) of Knott’s Island, N.C.,
brought the fourth highest price of $80,500, setting an
auction record for a Dudley canvasback ($30,000$50,000).
Topping the paintings in the sale were two works
by the New York-born artist Ogden M. Pleissner
(1905-83), who later made his home in Vermont.
‘‘Shore Line,’’ an oil on canvas, sold for $48,875 and
‘‘The Orchard Cover,’’ a watercolor, for $46,000. Each
had a $40,000-$60,000 estimate.
. . .
Skinner’s American Indian & Ethnographjc Art
Auction and its European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction last month brought surprising prices.
Most surprising was the $213,300 paid for an early
Navajo third-phase chief’s blanket with its original
$65 price tag and a $5,000-$7,000 estimate.
Douglas Deihl, director of Skinner’s American In-
Rare circa 1917 feeding stick-up Canada goose
decoy by John Tax brought the top price of
$115,000, at Copley Fine Art Auctions’ inaugural
sale in New York last month. Topping the
paintings was ‘‘The Shore Line,’’ an oil on canvas
by Ogden M. Pleissner ($48,875). At Skinner’s
American Indian & Ethnographic Art Auction,
this early Navajo third-phase chief ’s blanket,
retaining its original $65 price tag and expected
to bring $5,000-$7,000, sold for $213,300.
dian & Ethnographic Art department, said these
prized early blankets do not come on the market
often, but this 1860s blanket had wool loss and a large
repair at the center, so it was given a low estimate.
However, once its sale was publicized, it attracted
such strong interest that, when it went on the block,
bidders over 10 phone lines were competing with bidders in the room and a large number of absentee bids.
Even before the bidding began, Deihl, along with
textile specialists, believed the blanket would exceed
early expectations, with the experts valuing it at
$70,000: $50,000 for its design and $20,000 for reweaving.
Chief’s blankets were prized in the 1800s not only
for their beauty but also for their versatility, serving as
coats during the day and blankets at night. Being
tightly woven, they were virtually waterproof.
The first chief ’s blankets, known as first-phase
blankets, were woven around 1820 with a simple
striped design. They were followed from around
1850-80, with 12 red rectangles added to the design of the second-phase blankets and nine diamonds and half diamonds used in the third-phase
design.
The auction’s other top sellers included a rare
shaman’s rattle used to communicate with ancestral spirits ($59,250, against a $20,000-$30,000 estimate), a polychrome carved totem pole ($38,513
against $10,000-$15,000), and an African carved
wood stool ($31,995 against $10,000-$15,000).
. . .
All of the top 10 selling lots in Skinner’s European Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction sold for
above their estimates, including a glazed earthenware charger that went for more than 25 times its
high estimate.
The 19th-century Italian charger, 19› inches in
diameter and decorated with a polychrome enamel
courtyard scene, sold for $30,810 against an $800$1,200 estimate.
The auction’s top seller was an Italian porcelain
teapot made by Vezzi in Venice around 1725 that
brought $94,800, more than tripling the high of its
$20,000-$30,000 estimate.
The second highest price was the $43,845 paid for
an 1876 Anna Pottery nine-inch-high chocolate brown
glazed stoneware jug, modeled with coiled snakes
around a frog. Its estimate also was $20,000-$30,000
A pair of chinoiserie-decorated 26-inch-high Bristol glass vases and covers brought the third highest
price of $34,365, or 19 times the high of its $1,200$1,800 estimate.
The top-selling furniture was an Italian micromosaic tabletop on a wrought iron base that sold for
$22,515 against a $5,000-$7,000 estimate.
The 1,034-lot auction included more than 400 lots
of Wedgwood topped by an early-19 th-century
10-inch Caneware canopic jar (a jar used in ancient
Egypt to hold the remains of the dead). It fetched
$10,073 against a $3,000-$5,000 estimate.
Virginia Bohlin can be reached at globeantiques@
globe.com.
Circa 1905 pair of goldeneyes by the master carver A. Elmer
Crowell of East Harwich brought $109,250, the second highest
price at Copley Fine Art Auctions’ New York sale. Pair of
19th-century chinoiserie-decorated Bristol vases and covers
went for more than 19 times the high of their $1,200-$1,800
estimate, fetching $34,365 at Skinner’s European Furniture &
Decorative Arts
Auction. At that
same sale, this
vargueno, a
Spanish wooden
cabinet mounted
with red velvet
panels accented
with brass
fretwork and
studs, sold for
$14,220 against
a $1,000-$1,500
estimate.
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