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| Thursday, 19 January 2012 08:38 |
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Silver Cups from Salem Witch Trial Judge
Not quite a decade after the notorious Salem Witch trials of 1692, the judge who presided commissioned a pair of silver standing cups, made in 1701 by the goldsmith Jeremiah Dummer of Boston. That judge was Governor William Stoughton of Massachusetts, whose cups will be a highlight at Sotheby’s Americana sale on January 20-21st in New York. They’re expected to sell for $1m-$2m. Two other items are expected to be even more valuable. One, estimated at $2m-$3m, is a Lt. Colonel Oliver Arnold Queen Anne Shell-Carved and figured Mahogany chest of drawers, attributed to John Townsend of Newport, dated 1765. The second is a Jeremiah Sheldon Chippendale Block-And Shell-carved and figured Mahogany chest of drawers, also attributed to John Townsend,and also circa 1765, a year when the noted cabinet maker was clearly busy
Rare J.M.W. Turner Watercolor at Bonhams Some 127 years have passed since J.M.W. Turner’s watercolor of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard last came to auction. Previously in the collection of an English shipping titan who owned 57 of Turner’s watercolors and 14 of his oils, the landscape was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2001-2. When Bonhams offers it in a London sale of 19th Century Paintings on January 25th, it’s expected to realize $309,000-$463,000. The sale also includes a number of Dutch works, including Frederick Marinus Kruseman’s summer landscape with cattle near a river (est. $31,000-$46,000), Paul Joseph Contantin Gabriel’s scene of a walker beside a canal (est. $23,000-$31,000), and Johan Barthold Jongkind’s rendering of a canal in Winter ($31,000-$46,000). Source: http://www.auctionnewsnetwork.com/art/rare-j-m-w-turner-watercolor-at-bonhams/6381/ |