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FORSYTHES’ PUBLIC ANTIQUES AUCTION

FORSYTHES’ PUBLIC ANTIQUES AUCTION
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2014, 12:00 NOON
CINCINNATI, OHIO

Located at the Holiday Inn at 3855 Hauck Rd., Sharonville, Ohio 45241.  Take exit 46 off I-275, go North on Route 42 to quick left on Hauck Road.

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   Pages 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10   Lot #151 - 180
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TITLE DESCRIPTION CONDITION LOW EST HIGH EST
             
151 Very Early Signed Skookum Doll Very Early Signed Skookum Doll Of female with molded and painted cloth face with glass bead eyes, black hair, original red cotton  bandana head wrap, yellow cotton shawl light blue cotton shirt over heavy cardboard tube body with trade blanket wrap, painted wood legs and mocs with relief painted beadwork, stamped on base of left foot with copyright symbol and “M.F./Woods”, 12.5” high. Slight wear to blanket, else Fine. $100 $200
152 Skookum Indian Doll Skookum Indian Doll Male with original polychrome painted composition faxe, black hair in braids, trade blanket wrap blue felt leggings and painted leather mocs, inked inscription on base of right moc reading “Toitilda from Clittone/Indian Reservation/Aug.-13-1928 Wisconsin/ Havwart.”10.5” high. Minor bump on nose, else Fine. $50 $100
153  Indian on Horseback Oil on Canvas Painting  Indian on Horseback Oil on Canvas Painting Plains style eagle feather headdress and holding a plains style lance wearing buckskin jacket and leggings with mountain in background, signed lower left “W.F. Harrington”, 20 x 24”, mounted on board. Minor wear at margins, else Fine. $200 $400
153A Southwest Indian Watercolor Painting Southwest Indian Watercolor Painting Showing a pueblo woman making a large pottery jar while her husband is decorating a small jar, table behind stacked with finished pottery, matted and framed, sight 8.75 x 11.75”, in gilt frame, 15 x 18”. Appears to be part of pencil signature in lower left, mostly covered by matt. Fine. Not removed from Frame. $100 $200
154 John Ruthven Miami Indian Print John Ruthven Miami Indian Print Pencil signed lower left and numbered 35/2000 with blind stamp also lower left, matted and framed, sight 12 x 15”, gilt frame is 21 x 24”. Fine. Not removed from Frame. $100 $200
155 17th Century Portrait Painting of Lady with Pearls 17th Century Portrait Painting of Lady with Pearls A very fine oil on canvas portrait on canvas of a young lady in elaborately embroidered dress with ballooned shoulders and lace collar wearing bejeweled and feathered hat with crucifix decorated with large pearls and on pearl necklace, almost certainly English, circa 1680 in period carved gold leaf frame, 29.5 x 39.5”. Some loss of paint at bottom margin and could use cleaning. $500 $1,000
156 Victorian Still Life Painting of Apples Victorian Still Life Painting of Apples Anonymous oil on canvas showing 8 apples resting on a dark surface, 10 x 19” in original ornate gold leaf frame, 17.25 x 26”. Some damage to gesso of frame, else Fine. $100 $200
157 Girl in White Turban After Old Master Painting Girl in White Turban After Old Master Painting A fine 19th century oil on canvas copy of  Old Master painting of a young girl in white turban and gown, 20 x 24, in original gold leaf frame 25 x 29”. Fine condition $200 $500
158  Madonna & Child Oil On Canvas Painting  Madonna & Child Oil On Canvas Painting A very fine 19th century painting after one of the Renaissance painters of Mary kneeling over the baby Jesus lying on cloth with landscape in background, 26.5 x 32”, in original gold leaf frame, 33 x 38.5”. Fine condition $300 $500
159 Oil on Canvas Painting After Raphael Oil on Canvas Painting After Raphael Madonna & Child, printed oil on canvas by Colton, Zahm & Roberts, N.Y., circa 1880, 11 x 9” in original gold leaf frame. Fine condition $100 $200
160 Icon of Virgin Mother Icon of Virgin Mother On tin in blue with clasped hands, 7 x 9”, in gold leaf frame, 10 x 12”. Some oxidation, still Very Good. $100 $200
161 Icon of Christ Icon of Christ On wood panel, 8.5” x 10.5”. Fine condition $200 $400
162 L. Fuenze Bronze Girl with Bird L. Fuenze Bronze Girl with Bird Bronze sculpture of a young girl in bare feet and bonnet holding basket by strap around neck and holding a spread winged song bird in her left hand and feeding it with her right, on round pedestal, signed with green marble base24” high. This is an older recasting of this famous bronze, in fine dark brown patina. Fine condition $200 $500
163 John Quincy Adams Ward Bronze Sculpture John Quincy Adams Ward Bronze Sculpture Full length portrait of “Henry B. Hyde, founder of the Equitable Life Insurance Society”, signed on side of base by Ward and marked on rear “The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. Founders, N.Y. 1902”. Bronze with nice all over original brown patina, 21” high. John Quincy Adams Ward, 1830-1910, was an American artist known for his male figural sculpture. Fine condition $300 $500
164 Thomas Hill (California/Ma.) Seascape Oil Painting Thomas Hill (California/Ma.) Seascape Oil Painting Fine oil on canvas seascape painting by famous artist Thomas Hill (1829-1908).
Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter.   Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter.  However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim.  During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of modernism.  In the latter half of the 20th century, his work was rediscovered, and he is now considered one of the major figures in American art.  He settled with his family in Taunton, Massachusetts and worked in Boston with a carriage maker.  He studied with Peter Rothermel at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and painted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with George Inness, Virgil Williams, Albert Bierstadt, and his brother, Edward Hill.  He hit his artistic stride in California during the 1870s, beginning with his first grandiose painting, The Yosemite Valley, which was published as a chromolithograph by Prang.  With Frederic Whymper, Hill was a founding member of the San Francisco Art Association, and in 1873, he became a member of the Bohemian Club, a men's organization dedicated to cultural enhancement.   Hill's paintings continued to bring higher prices in the 1870s, and he was a wealthy man by 1878.  Soon thereafter, however, hard times fell upon the artist, as they did on the San Francisco economy and art market in general.  He struggled through the next decade, moving back and forth to paint in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and his beloved Yosemite Valley in California.  During these years he was still acclaimed but experienced increasing financial distress.  Also his marriage was not happy, which led him to spend more and more time in Yosemite.  Hill's fortunes continued to vacillate until 1896 when he suffered the first of a series of strokes from which he never fully recovered.  He died in 1908, and it is believed that his death was by suicide.  Signed lower left. Oakland Museum tag on back of frame Sight – 11 ½” x 17 ½”.
Some crazing in sky, otherwise fine condition. $2,000 $4,000
165 Wesley E. Webber (MA/CA/ME) Oil Painting Wesley E. Webber (MA/CA/ME) Oil Painting Large oil on canvas of lake scene with fishermen in boats by Wesley Elbridge Weber (1841-1914).  Landscape and marine painter Wesley Webbr was born in Gardiner, Maine and died in Wollaston, Massachusetts in November 1914.  He lived in Boston from 1870 to 1890 and lived in New York City from 1892 and was self-taught.  He is considered one of the finer landscape painters who painted from life in the Conway area of New Hampshire and along the New England coast, and he is reminiscent of the Hudson River School in style and manner.  Webber shared a Boston studio in Pemberton Square and then shared a Boston studio with marine painter William P. Stubbs (1876-) and kept other studios in New York City until his death.  Every summer he went to Conway, New Hampshire to paint the hillside, where painters JOhn J. Enneking, Frank Shapleigh, and others joined him to paint.  Two of his most famous paintings are "Kennebec River" and "Maine Boat Shop and Unidentified Vessels Ice-bound at Gloucester" (both at the Peabody Museum, Salem, MA).  He is also represented int eh permanent collections of the Boston Athenaeum, New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, Portland Museum of Art (Maine), and elsewhere.  Housed in original frame.  18" x 30". Fine $1,000 $2,000
166 Marine Oil Painting Signed Moran Marine Oil Painting Signed Moran Oil on canvas of three sailboats and steamship at sea with lighthouse.  Housed in original frame.  Signed lower left.  11 1/2" x 17 1/2". Fine condition $300 $600
167 Gail Sherman Corbett (New York) Oil Painting Gail Sherman Corbett (New York) Oil Painting Oil on canvas of Paris street scene. Gail Sherman was educated at the Syracuse High School and the Anne Brown School, New York. She began her studies in sculpture at the Art Students' League in New York under Augustus Saint Gaudens, George DeForest Brush and others, and was later a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She was given her first large commission in 1901, and, between then and 1914, when her work was interrupted by the War, she executed many memorial tablets, portrait busts, bas-reliefs, sundials, fountains, and medals. Her work received a medal and mention at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. Her best known groups are the Hamilton S. White Memorial, Syracuse, New York (1905), the Kirkpatrick Memorial Fountain, Syracuse (1908), and the bronze doors of the Municipal Building, Springfield, Massachusetts (1913). Miss Sherman was married at Syracuse, June 28, 1905, to Harvey Wiley Corbett, a New York architect. She was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the American Numismatic Society, the Woman's Municipal League, the New York Women's City Club, and the American Red Cross. She was a teacher of art at Syracuse University.

Fine Condition $500 $1,000
168 Oil Painting of Musician Signed P. C. Mossani Oil Painting of Musician Signed P. C. Mossani Oil on canvas dated, "06" for 1906.  17 1/2" x 11". Signed top left. Some crazing; otherwise excellent condition $400 $800
169 Monumental Pair of Gas & Electric Wall Sconces Monumental Pair of Gas & Electric Wall Sconces Magnificent pair of brass sconces with six gas arms and sevel electric arms, each ornately cast with large spheres with overlay at top.  The finest pair we have seen!  33" h x 30" w. Very good condition $800 $1,500
170 Pr. Brass Wall Sconces Pr. Brass Wall Sconces With two arms an ornate shield form back plate, electric, circa 1910, 10.5 x 5 x 12” high. Fine condition $75 $125
170A Pr. Brass Wall Sconces Arts & Crafts Wrought Iron Wall Sconce With four spiral turned arms with elaborate scrolled iron sockets, on domed shield form back, decorated with applied scrolled iron-work, 15 x 15 x 9” deep, originally made for gas. Fine condition $100 $150
171 Leaded Glass Table Lamp Leaded Glass Table Lamp Has pink florals with green leaves at border.  Three socket base with embossed florals.  18" shade.  20" h. Some cracks in panels $300 $500
172 Large Metal Overlay Slag Glass Lamp Large Metal Overlay Slag Glass Lamp Five small (one missing) curved caramel slag glass panels over six large curved caramel slag glass panels with metal leaf and other overlay.  A wonderful lamp that retains its original paint and patina.  18" shade.  25" h. One small panel missing; otherwise excellent condition $200 $400
173 Large Brass overlay Slag Glass Table Lamp Large Brass overlay Slag Glass Table Lamp Eight caramel slag glass panels with heavy brass overlay.  20" shade.  23" h. $200 $400
174 Metal Overlay Bent Slag Glass Table Lamp Metal Overlay Bent Slag Glass Table Lamp Seven bent caramel slag glass panels with floral overlay.  17" diam. X 23" h. Some flaking of original paint; otherwise fine with no damage $150 $250
175 Metal Overlay Bent Slag Glass Panel Chandelier Metal Overlay Bent Slag Glass Panel Chandelier Eight bent caramel slag glass panels with metal overlay trees and Dutch scene at top, and ships over blue slag glass at border.   Retains original factory paint.  Double sockets inside.  22" diameter, 13" h. Overall nice condition w/no damage to overlay or panels $200 $400
176 Banker's Lamp with Green Cased Glass Shade Banker's Lamp with Green Cased Glass Shade 10" shade.  16" h Some rust at base, metal bracket for shade has damage; otherwise fine condition $100 $200
177 B & H Parlor Lamp w/Handpainted Sheep B & H Parlor Lamp w/Handpainted Sheep Tall unusual lamp with round hand painted scene of sheep herder and sheep, with embossed work at base, and matching shade with hand painted sheep.  Marked, "B & H" on font.  Electrified.  31" h. Unusual small chips to top and base of shade; otherwise fine condition $300 $500
178 Nice Victorian Gone With The Wind Parlor Oil Lamp Nice Victorian Gone With The Wind Parlor Oil Lamp Hand painted floral decoration.  Never electrified.  25" h. Fine condition $150 $250
179 Frederick Carl Smith Oil Painting of Sierra Lake Frederick Carl Smith Oil Painting of Sierra Lake Fine California oil on canvas by Frederick Carl  Smith (1868-1955 CA/District of Columbia/Ohio/Norway).  Frederick Carl Smith was born in Cincinnati and studied at the Cincinnati Art School, the Ohio Mechanics Institute, and the Academie Julian in Paris with Bougereau, Ferrier, and Constant.  For 17 years he worked in Washington DC and then moved to Pasadena, CA in 1917.  There he was active in the Laguna Beach art community, and a founding member of the Art Association. This painting descended directly from the artist's family.  Signed lower right.  25" x 30". Fine condition $800 $1,500
180 Frederick Carl Smith Gouache Painting Frederick Carl Smith Gouache Painting Probably a scene of The Miami River near Cincinnati.  Frederick Carl Smith (1868-1955 CA/District of Columbia/Ohio/Norway).  Frederick Carl Smith was born in Cincinnati and studied at the Cincinnati Art School, the Ohio Mechanics Institute, and the Academie Julian in Paris with Bougereau, Ferrier, and Constant.  For 17 years he worked in Washington DC and then moved to Pasadena, CA in 1917.  There he was active in the Laguna Beach art community, and a founding member of the Art Association. This painting descended directly from the artist's family.  Signed lower right.  13" x 21" Fine condition $400 $800
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