diminutive blanket chest
MT. CRAWFORD, VA, October 23, 2024 —- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates is pleased to announce its 47th Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction to be held November 21-23, 2024. The three-day event features consignments from estates and collections across the country as well as institutional deaccessions. Overall, with a gallery packed full of high-quality, fresh-to-the-market material to be sold, the sale is sure to generate plenty of excitement within the collecting community.
Day One, beginning at 9:00 am EST on Thursday, November 21, 2024, will feature property from the private collection of Jean Koepsel Baen, Houston, TX; the Larry Lee McCallister estate, Indianapolis, IN; the estate collection of Dr. James E. Carter, Tompkinsville, KY; the collection of Jan and Watt White, Stamford, CT; the collection of the late Richard and Leslie Harris, Branchville, NJ; a private Ohio collection; items deaccessioned by an East Coast institution; plus others. The day’s offerings will include banquet and other cut-overlay lighting; free-blown, pillar- and pattern-molded wares; rare salts; a selection of primitive lighting, including lanterns, rush lights, wrought-iron, and tin; a large collection of cup plates; rare colored vases and candlesticks; 17th & 18th century European glass, including wines; a good selection of bottles and flasks, including whiskeys, bitters, mineral waters, and medicines, many with Kentucky association, as well as a fine selection of poison bottles; plus more. Highlights for Day One include a fine pair of pressed Sandwich open-work fruit baskets in amethyst; an important pressed lacy compote in canary yellow; an extremely rare D. T. Everts & Co., Petersburg, VA bitters bottle in puce, one of two known; and a rare cobalt figural skull poison bottle.
Day Two, beginning at 9:00 am EST on Friday, November 22, 2024, will feature property from the estate collection of Alfred “Al” Marzorini, Washington, DC. The day’s offerings will feature an outstanding selection of American folk art, including important fraktur and related works on paper, carvings, advertising, trade signs, weathervanes, and other naïve works of art; decoys, including shorebirds; stoneware, earthenware, and other ceramics; Outsider art; plus more. The Marzorini Collection will be immediately followed by our usual fine selection of American stoneware and other folk pottery from various owners, including several fine Virginia examples and a large selection of Southern merchant wares. Highlights for the day include an important Hampshire Co., VA (now WV) fraktur birth and death record, one of two in the sale; an extremely rare Case cast-iron eagle on globe advertising trade figure in original paint; a vibrant Maryland paint-decorated pine diminutive blanket chest; and a rare 20-gallon Western Pennsylvania stoneware jar marked for a Nashville, Tennessee merchant.
Day Three, beginning at 9:00 am EST on Saturday, November 23, 2024, will feature property from the collection of Bob and Caroline Jacobsen, Wheaton, IL; the Curtis Webster Collection, Princeton, NJ; the estate of Bernard S. Warren, Grand Rapids, MI; the collection of the late Richard and Leslie Harris, Branchville, NJ; the Dr. Donald Ramsey estate collection, Farragut, TN; the collection of Dr. John Lynn, Petersburg, VA; the estate of Doris M. Bowman, Alexandria, VA; as well as deaccession material from an East Coast institution and the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA; plus others. The day’s offerings will feature our usual fine selection of rare Virginia & other Southern material; an excellent selection of American folk art; 18th & 19th century formal and country furniture, including several fine Southern pieces and a number of pie / food safes; textiles, including quilts, coverlets, and a several noteworthy needlework samplers; American fine & decorative art, including Southern portraiture; country accessories, including baskets and treen; Civil War, firearms, and other historical material, including an excellent group of Civil War era images; 18th & 19th century English and Continental ceramics; an excellent selection of silver, including many Southern examples, highlighted by a rare pair of open salts attributed to William Richardson (active 1769-1809) of Richmond, VA; plus more. Highlights for the day include a fine mid-19th century double portrait of sisters, possibly by Samuel Shaver (Tennessee, 1816-1878); an outstanding New England Chippendale carved mahogany desk and bookcase; three ship portraits by Antonio Jacobsen (Danish-American, 1850-1921); and a mid-19th century pictorial needlework sampler from the Maury Co., Tennessee.
Company president, Jeffrey S. Evans, commented, “We are very excited to bring such an outstanding group of fresh objects to the market for this auction, and we are especially pleased to have the Marzorini Collection highlight the sale. Overall, our varied offerings of American folk art, Southern objects, ceramics, early glass, and historical artifacts are especially strong and provide numerous unique buying opportunities for serious collectors.”
The catalogues for each session will be posted online around November 8. The sale is on public preview November 19-20, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm; and November 21-23, 8:00 am until end of auction on each day. For further information, please visit www.jeffreysevans.com, email info@jeffreysevans.com, or call 540.434.3939.