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June Auction Highlights:
Asian Works of Art did
extremely well ,as
exhibited in the result of lot 502, a Chinese Five Piece Porcelain
Garniture, sold for $74,750
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printable price list:
Lot 332: Louis Solon Minton Three
Handled Pate-Sur-Pate Vase, sold ofr $31,050 and Lot 333: a Rare and
Important Pair of Louis Solon Mintons Pate-Sur-Pate Vases, sold for
$69,000
Lot 326: A Fine and
Rare Herter Bros.
Revolving Easel sold for $51,750
Lot 212: Charles
Sheeler (Am., 1883-1965)
Side of White Barn, Bucks County
brought the auction high $109,250.
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ASIAN WORKS OF ART SOAR!
Sale 106 - On Sunday June 25th, Grogan & Company
conducted its annual June auction comprised of over 600 lots including
Paintings, Photographs, Furniture and Decorative Works of Arts, Silver
and Oriental Rugs and Carpets from various estates and collections.
With over 453 bidders participating from around the world, the auction
grossed over 1.3 million, Grogan’s strongest sale of the 2005-2006
season.
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Click below for our illustrated
on-line catalogue with results:
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Generating the most
pre-sale interest with inquiries from as far away as China, the Asian
Works of Art, comprised of 78 lots,
represented 25% of the gross
sales. The highlight was a Chinese
Blue and White Five Piece
Porcelain Garniture, from the Ch’ing
Dynasty,
Ch’ien-Lung Period (1736-1795). The set far exceeded its $3,000-5,000
pre-sale estimate when it sold to a New York phone bidder for $74,750.
The second highest price was achieved by a Massive Chinese Blue, White
and Aubergine Porcelain Urn on stand. Estimated at $3,000-5,000, the
urn sold to another New York phone bidder for $63,250. A Chinese Glazed
Porcelain Vase brought $27,600,
a Carved White Jade
Covered Vase sold for $17,250 and a Chinese Sang De Boeuf Splash Glazed
Vase sold for $11,500.
Other highlights
included a rare and important Pair of Minton Pate-Sur-Pate Chocolate
Brown Two Handled Vases, signed by Louis Solon. Originally purchased
at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, the vases had a pre-sale
estimate of $30,000-50,000, and sold for $69,000 to a London phone
bidder on behalf of a European Collection. A similar Minton Pate-Sur-Pate
Chocolate Brown Covered Three Handled Vase, pre-sale estimate
$10,000-20,000, also sold over the phone for $31,050 to a Mid-west
collector. A Herter Brothers Renaissance Revival Carved Rosewood and
Marquetry Inlaid Revolving Easel from an Austin Texas estate sold above
its $20,000-30,00 pre-sale estimate for $51,750, to a Connecticut
collector.
Side
of White Barn, Bucks County,
a vintage photograph by American Modernist, Charles Sheeler, brought the
highest price of the auction, hammering down at $109,250. The
photograph was one of the few top lots that sold to a buyer in the
room. Edward Weston’s Shell and Rock Arrangement, sold to a
California collector via the phone for $34,500. Also noteworthy, was a
large collection of photographs by author and photographer Dorothy
Norman, Woods Hole, Massachusetts that did very well grossing over
$37,000 for the collection. The sale also included works by Alfred
Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White.
For more
information, contact the gallery at 781-461-9500.
Gallery Located:
22 Harris Street, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026
Telephone: 781-461-9500 Toll Free: 1-800-823-1020
Fax: 781-461-9625
contact us at: Grogans@Groganco.com
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