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2004 Christie's New York CHRISTIE'S IMPORTANT AMERICAN FURNITURE , WEATHERVANES, SCRIMSHAW, FOLK ART , SILVER, PRINTS AND 20TH CENTURY SELF - TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART 1/15/04 .This post auction catalog consists of 760 lots on 400 pages.
Block-and-shell carved bureau table John Townsend side chairs from the Oliver Wendell Holmes family Willard family clocks a Bust of George Washington, and two portraits of Revolutionary Generals attributed to Charles Wilson Peale,Rare pieces of Colonial silver from the Gorham Manufacturing Company's The William Hill Land and Cattle Company Collection of American Arts and Crafts Silver Peter Muller-Munk, Marie Zimmerman, Arthur Stone and numerous female silversmiths. Outstanding American Folk Art, increasingly popular among collectors, returns to the Christie's saleroom with, among others, an early Gansevoort Limner portrait of Elizabeth Van Dyke Vosburgh; a painted overmantel panel from the Gardiner-Gilman House at Exeter Academy; John James Audubon by Robert Havell.
All color illustrations ,each lot is described in detail and given pre-auction estimates. Prices realized can be obtained off the auction house web site or we will email you the results.
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