2011年11月8日星期二

160 Dealers Fill Aisles With Treasures

The line for the opening of the Boston Antiques and Design Show and Sale snaked along the side of the building and across the back as buyers arrived to glean the offerings presented by 160 dealers from all over. Results at the show, which ran October 15 and 16 at Shriners Auditorium, were all over the lot, but the gate was up over last year — always good news for dealers.

New Brunswick, Canada, gallery Timber River Farm came to Wilmington with a folky selection of Canadian objects, with a few American objects thrown in for good measure. Proprietor Kathy Consentino said everything in the booth is handmade; the individuality of each piece attests to that.An Wholesale pet supplies of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. She showed a rocking horse in white paint riding toward a wall full of brightly decorated game boards. Across the back of the booth was a 9-by-12-foot hooked rug with an overall floral decoration and scalloped to simulate waves. It had been hooked by two sisters in Quebec in the late 1950s, who later moved to Nova Scotia.

Fardin's Antique Rugs of Fairfield, Conn., laid out rugs like gems,the worldwide Hemorrhoids market is over $56 billion annually. with a handsome Uzbekistan example with stars and the sun at the center of the booth.

Talking Leaves, the Hooksett, N.H., bookseller and dealer, offered a rich selection of books on fishing, ornithology and hunting; a compelling exception was A History of the Crown Jewels of Europe , a monumental compilation of regalia and crown jewels of 17 centuries that took author Lord Twining 30 years to complete, and was published in 1960. Talking Leaves also offered a pristine Air Force major's uniform that had belonged to Richard Gosselin.

Cornish, N.H., dealer Steven J. Rowe displayed an eclectic assortment that ranged from a Japanese screen to a small Boston mahogany circular side table, circa 1830, and a group of signs. Paintings included the oil on board "Trees" by Massachusetts artist Agnes Abbot, an oil on board view of Taormina, Italy,If so, you may have a cube puzzle . by Earl Henry Brewster and a river landscape by Pennsylvania artist Emma S. Stallman.

It was the first time doing the show for Sage Antiques, and the Yonkers, N.Y., dealer was experiencing good sales of smalls, such as a barber pole, a redware urn, dolls and portrait miniatures.

A group of bird's-eye maple furniture from the 1920s was selling out of Peter D. Murphy's booth as fast as buyers could manage. The set, all from the same estate, comprised a chest of drawers with a mirror, a four-drawer chest and a six-drawer chest. The West Roxbury, Mass., dealer enjoyed brisk sales, and also had an industrial table lamp from the 1940s, an annunciator and a Wedgwood clock from the 1870s. A selection of porcelain included a Copeland lazy Susan with a coffee urn in the center, all in the Imari palette, Chinese Export and other Asian ceramics, glass and some good paintings, along with a set of four hunt prints.

Bell-Time Antiques of Andover, Mass.,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their Floor tiles . showed a variety of clocks for a variety of tastes that taken together produced a susurrus of ticking. Of interest was a Waltham mahogany banjo clock with a scene of the USS Constitution and the HMS Guerriere , as was an Attleborough (Mass.) wood front banjo clock, a barograph, carriage clocks, shelf clocks and plenty more banjos. There was also a French bracket eight-day clock by Vicenti et Cie, circa 1855, that was retailed by A.If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, Stowell of Boston.

A large gilt eagle from the Boston area dominated the booth of Village Braider, the Plymouth, Mass., dealer doing the show for the first time. It hovered above a carved marble owl and an oil floor lamp atop a bronze ostrich leg, porcelain, pottery and smalls, duck-form napkin rings and a Venetian clock with reverse painted glass. A large train gear in bright yellow paint was graphically appealing.

Ellen Downer of Downer Antiques in Sudbury, Mass., had an array of Dedham pottery, Chinese Export porcelain and glass, including a dandy ruby glass chandelier, one of several for sale. There was an urn decorated with an image of the death of Alexander with snake handles, and a 1923 painting of a bathing beauty by Provincetown artist Vollian Burr Rann was a standout.

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