Pook & Pooks Americana And International Sale Slated For April 21 And 22
Ceramics To Classic Chevrolet Included In Exciting Two-Day Auction
By Cynthia Beech Lawrence - April 22, 2022
The Americana and International Sale on Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22, at Pook & Pook will feature the estates of three noted collectors, together with a variety of antique furniture, pottery, folk art, jewelry, and firearms. The late Peter Tillou of Litchfield, Conn., was an internationally known art and antiques dealer, scholar, and authority in a wide range of fields. A portrait by Charles Peale Polk will be among the Tillou offerings. Also represented will be a collection of early German stoneware, pearlware coffee pots and pitchers, Toby jugs, and Dave McGary western bronzes from his former home in Sun Valley, Idaho. In furniture, a Berks County, Pennsylvania, painted dower chest blooms with its original panels of potted tulips, and tall case clocks from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania will be sold. There will be Chippendale tables, a Philadelphia dressing table, a Pennsylvania secretary, and, from Connecticut, a cherry oxbow and tiger maple serpentine chest of drawers. The late Christopher Rebollo was a respected antique dealer who began his career with Philip H. Bradley Antiques. His estate collection of 19th-century portraits includes four lively children. Attributed to Thomas Sully is a portrait of Mary Anne Heide Morris (1803-65), inscribed TS 1830 verso. Amongst the collection of fine Chinese export porcelain are the provenanced Breck family bowl and pair of covered vegetable dishes, both monogrammed SJB. Samuel (1771-1862) and Jean Breck were prominent in early Pennsylvania history. Breck served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the State Senate in the early 19th century. Fine furniture includes a Pennsylvania Queen Anne walnut armchair, ca. 1760, and walnut semi tall chest, ca. 1755, with raised panel sides. Federal period furniture includes a set of eight Philadelphia Federal mahogany dining chairs, each with a scrollwork back, carved urn and rosettes, over-upholstered balloon seats, and elegant turned and fluted legs. There will be a Baltimore mahogany desk and bookcase attributed to John Needles and a Federal mahogany sewing stand, ca. 1810, with an astragal top and brass animal paw casters. The estate of Pete Lengel, of Robesonia, Pa., features a large collection of Pennsylvania Shenfelder stoneware with cobalt floral decoration, original Hattie Brunner landscapes, and a colorful collection of glass to include Stiegel-type cobalt glass table ware, Pittsburgh cobalt glass, and English glass. Other consigment material includes a Jacob Maentel large exterior watercolor double portrait of Elizabeth and Philip Wolfersberger of Lancaster, Pa., standing in front of their farm, ex. Halpert collection, and a fine Johann Adam Eyer fraktur. A painted poplar Compass Artist dome lid box on a blue ground, ex. Machmer collection (Pook & Pook, 2008), and an early and important Broderie perse quilt, dated 1814, probably Philadelphia or New Jersey, are other highlights. A 19th-century Pennsylvania redware toy stove with little pots and kettles fitted into a removable top, included in Pennsylvania Folk Art, the 1974 exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum, and a sgraffito decorated Pennsylvania redware inkstand incised Jonas Haring 1853 are featured items within some strong lots of folk ceramics. A figure of a seated man holding a turkey in a loaf dish, illustrated in David Schorschs The Pearson Collection, and other figural redware will be on offer. A furniture highlight is a late 18th-century painted hard pine tavern table, probably Southern, retaining an old gray over green surface, ex. Linda and Dennis Moyer (Pook & Pook, 2020). Also offered are a Massachusetts Chippendale mahogany block front chest of drawers, ca. 1770, and a Chippendale walnut tea table, ca. 1770. Six tall case clocks featured are from the estate of Charles West Wilson of Red Lion, Pa. The highlight is a rare American bracket clock, ca. 1810, with a fully engraved silvered dial inscribed Richard Miller, a member of the Miller clock making family of Elizabethtown, N.J., before he set up shop in Duck Creek, Del. Firearms include a wide selection such as a deluxe factory engraved political Moores no. 1 Deringer, with spread wing eagle and American shield, a scarce example made to be given as a gift to select U.S. congressmen and senators who sat on military committees, said to be given in hopes of landing military contracts. It is estimated that 25 of these particular examples were produced. An important piece of history, a Confederate States Civil War Native American Indian bronze medal, dated 22 February 1862, inscribed verso, The Congress of the C.S.A. to Stand Waite, Chief of the Cherokee, recalls a moment in Americas past. Stand Waite was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862-66 and was the only Native American general officer of the war and the last Confederate States Army general to surrender. Another important historical item is a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, printed by Johan Gutenberg and Johann Fust, 1455. The leaf originates from an incomplete Bible, the Mannheim copy, sold at Sothebys in 1920 to Joseph Sabin, and contains parts of the 2nd Book of Esdras, chapters 14 and 15. Its portfolio contains a four-page introduction by A. Edward Newton. The most romantic Americana items in the sale might be two automobiles. A candy red 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air with a big block V8 engine, four-speed manual transmission, and a five-digit odometer registering 25,330 will attract a lot of attention. Its muscular companion is a Hemi Orange 1972 Dodge Challenger, with a 340 four-barrel motor, three-speed automatic transmission, and all the power you could ever want or need. To learn more about this two-day auction, visit www.pookandpook.com. Online bidding is available through Bidsquare, Invaluable, and PookLive! For other information, call 610-296-4040.
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