Large English mocha pitcher with earthworm pattern, c 1815, 7¾" x 7", with ¼" and smaller spout rim flakes and a 1¼" line in the base with adjacent crazing, sold for $650 at Horst Auctioneers maineantiquedigest.com/stories/spring… #antiques #antique #vintage #mocha #pitcher #ceramics

At the York Show: Thurston Nichols offered for $1995 this c 1830 lower Chester County, Pennsylvania, paint-decorated two-piece corner cupboard with original painted surface & a blue-painted interior maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-or… #antiques #antique #furniture #cupboard #Americana #art

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) painted "Flower Woman" in 1948. The 20" x 24" signed and dated tempera on board, with an estimate of $2/3 million, sold for $2,228,000 at Christie's maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-sp… #art #artist #Lawrence #black #Flower #woman #africanAmerican #fineart

"Pear Tree in September" by Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967), signed & dated watercolor, pen, & pencil on paper, 22½" x 31", executed in 1949, sold for $277,200 (est. $120,000/180,000) at Christie's maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-sp… #art #artist #Burchfield #fineart #painting

The large 4th- or 5th-century Roman mosaic floor panel depicts a horse. It is set in concrete with a metal frame and measures 43½" x 51". It brought $2684 (e $3000/5000) at Tremont Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tremon… #antiques #antique #art #artist #Roman #horse #horses #Rome #Italy

This Orientalist painting is by Spanish artist Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa (1854-1938). The oil on panel, 21¾" x 17¾", brought $28,060 (e. $25,000/35,000) at Tremont Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tremon… #antiques #antique #art #artist #Spain #Spanish #Costa #painting #fineart

Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952), "Daydreams," dated “1910,” oil on canvas, 29 3/8" x 36 1/8", with provenance from the RH Love Galleries, Chicago, sold on the phone for $28,800 (e. $8000/12,000) at Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bierst… #antiques #antique #art #artist #fineart

Red-painted chinoiserie-decorated tilt-top candlestand, eastern Massachusetts, c 1800, sold for $10,240 (e $3000/5000) at Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers The octagonal top is painted with a landscape scene in the Chinese style maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bierst… #antiques #antique #China #Americana #table

Painted plaster plaque by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), "Te Adoremus Domine," c 1921, 14¾" x 13½", sold for $21,250 (e $4000/6000), a record for the artist, at Swann Galleries. It had sold at Swann's on February 23, 2010, for $4320 maineantiquedigest.com/stories/africa… #art #artist

"Dancer #1" by Charles Searles (1937-2004), 70½" x 46½", oil on canvas, the 1st painting in his "Dancer” series of the mid-1970s, sold for $40,000 (e. $35,000/50,000) at Swann Galleries maineantiquedigest.com/stories/africa… #art #artist #Searles #dancer #AfricanAmerican #black #dancers

Paul Revere’s engraving "The Bloody Massacre" was sold by Early American History Auctions for $200,000. It was consigned from the collection of John William Middendorf II who had acquired it in 2011 at Christie's for $116,500 maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bloody… #antiques #history #art

Tiffany Studios enameled copper cabinet vase with mushrooms, c 1905, 2¼" H x 2½" D, sold for $82,550 (est. $10,000/15,000) at Rago Auctions. The owner bought it for less than a dollar at a garage sale maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tiffan… #antiques #antique #art #Tiffany #vase

At the York Show: Jewett-Berdan Antiques had this hand-crafted paint-decorated toy chest on offer for $1450. The chest features Noah’s ark on the front panel and other animal scenes on the sides maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-or… #antiques #antique #folkart #Americana #Noah #toys #chest

At the York Show: Steve Sherhag brought this midwestern double-sided boot trade sign marked “H. Martindale.” The wooden sign is painted red and black and Sherhag asked $1450 for it maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-or… #antiques #antique #folkart #sign #Americana #boot #boots #Martindale

19th-C French Empire miniature portrait, 6¾" x 6", shows a well-dressed & fashionable woman. The paintings on the wall, the easel with a painting, and the books suggest an educated sitter. It sold for $1464 (e $200/300) at Tremont Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tremon… #art #antiques

Two carte-de-visite photographs of Ulysses S. Grant sold for $4392 (e $200/300) at Tremont Auctions--1 marked “Brady Washington” and inscribed or signed; the other is by brothers Edward & Henry T. Anthony from a Mathew Brady negative maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tremon… #CivilWar #history

This oak livery cupboard, c 1650, could have been used for storage of household items such as linens and clothing. It was listed as “possibly American,” and sold for $780 (est. $600/900) at Casco Bay Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stories/buyers… #antiques #antique #cupboard #furniture #oak

Jim Crow Meets Bluebeard: Imagination and Humor in the Staffordshire Potteries maineantiquedigest.com/stories/jim-cr… #antiques #antique #vintage #art #Staffordshire

This oil on canvas, 20" x 24", inscribed on the back with “Chichester Canal” and an illegible name and date, cataloged as "after Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851), sold for $2760 (e. $200/300) at Casco Bay Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stories/buyers… #art #artist #painting

"The Shower of Gold: Danaë" by Ernest Lee Major (1864-1950), oil on canvas, 40" x 48", sold for $56,320 (e. $3000/5000) at Bonhams Skinner. The painting retains a label from a 1995 exhibition at Vose Galleries maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bonham… #art #artist #Major #painting #fineart