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Baltimore, Maryland

The Baltimore Summer Antiques Showby Lita Solis-Cohen

There were two entrances to the Baltimore Sum-mer Antiques Show at the Baltimore ConventionCenter held on the four days before Labor Day,

September 2-5. Over 500 dealers filled the vast240,000-square-foot space with furniture, jewelry,paintings, sculpture, books, prints, posters, photo-

graphs, ephemera, handbags andhats, all sorts of collectibles,bronzes and ivory, and a varietyof decorative arts, much of itAsian and some of it new. OnThursday before noon at the PrattStreet entrance, Kris Chara-monde, Scott Diament, andRobert Samuels, the three youngFlorida jewelry dealers known asthe Palm Beach Group, cut theribbon marking the 30th anniver-sary of this show and its fifth yearunder their management.

Those who entered this show from the Charles Streetentrance were greeted by a stand with a dozen veryarge photographs of notables: Mother Teresa, John F.

Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Mon-

roe, and other instantly recognizable figures. Viewedup close, these large images were seen to be mosaics,made of tiny related images. For example, Andy

The Baltimore show filled the convention center for the 30th year.It has become far more elegant than it was for its first quarter-century. It has white carpets, spacious aisles, and wooden wallsnot much pipe and drape. It is an upscale show, which pleasedsome dealers and made others nostalgic for the old days when

Frank Farbenbloom ran the show and mom-and-pop dealersbrought treasures with reasonable price tags.

McCarty Gallery, Philadelphia,asked $75,000 for Beauty in Profileby Richard Edward Miller, an 18"x 15" oil on canvas painted inFrance, 1911-13.

M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans, Louisiana, askedthe highest price at the show, $5.85 million for the1896 painting by Monet of trees reflected in a flood-ed river, Flood at Giverny. Bill Rau said he hadbought it from a Swiss family. The Art Nouveaubronze vase was $24,500.

This English hexagonal coffeepot byDavid Willaume, London, 1715, was$34,500 from Robert Lloyd of NewYork City. He also offered anotherrarity (not shown), a chatelainehook, the only known piece of silverwith the mark of Jacob Getz, Lan-caster, Pennsylvania. More work byhis brother John Getz is known. Ifound it at Brimfield in July, saidLloyd.

The Norwoods Spirit of America, Timonium, Mary-and, asked $3000 for the hooked rug, which sold, and

$4400 for the double-sided tavern sign in the form of ahand. The Martha and George Washington folk art pic-

tures made from postage stamps, priced at $6800, hadbeen bought at Leigh Kenos auction in Stamford, Con-necticut, in April, as had several other items on theirstand.

The Norwoods were one of very few dealers withAmericana. Most Americana dealers were at ButchArions show in York, Pennsylvania. The Norwoods didboth shows, bringing mostly New England folk art toBaltimore and Pennsylvania folk art to York. Next yearthere will not be a conflict because the Baltimore showwill be held August 25-28.

Briley International, Clifton,New Jersey, offered this Tiffany& Co. tall-case clock acquiredrecently from an estate. Itsbelieved to be one of threeknown similar clocks madecirca 1885. The silver-plateddecoration had been replated.The asking price was $850,000retail.

This Louis Vuitton trunk in mint conditionwas $29,850 from M.S. Rau Antiques.

Warhol is made of hundreds of tiny faces ofChairman Mao; Barack Obamas digital tesseraeare images of Abraham Lincoln; and BrigitteBardots is made up of hundreds of tiny picturesof the Creation of Eve from Michelangelos ceil-ing in the Sistine Chapel. Marilyn Monroe is

composed of tiny images of theMona Lisa , while Mother Tere-sa is a grid of Gandhi. The por-traits come in two sizes: 40" x60" (in editions of fewer than20) for $7000 and 72" x 108"(in editions of fewer than ten)for $15,000.

They are the work of 40-year-old artist Alex GuofengCao, who came to New YorkCity from China as a teenagerand found his passion, photog-

raphy, when he was studying at the Fashion Insti-tute of Technology. Inspired by photographersIrving Penn, Richard Avedon, and Robert Map-plethorpe, Cao is primarily interested in theblack-and-white images burned into our memory.

Fascinated with the mosaics he discovered inPompeii and Herculaneum, he created these por-traits with digital photographic mosaics andprinted them on large sheets of paper laid downon aluminum and covered by Plexiglas.

I am trying to encode and layer information asit accumulates over time, the way history devel-ops, said Cao. I have set up a dialogue betweenthe new digital technologies and photographysoriginal analog techniques.

Caos portraits suggest that he has looked atportraits painted by Chuck Close. Caos mostmoving image is of the Pulitzer Prize-winningphotograph by South African photographer KevinCarter of a vulture waiting for a Sudanese child todie. That photo made Carter famous, but the hateletters he received accusing him of indifference tosuffering helped push him to committing suicidetwo months after he won the prize. Caos poster-size photo of Carters prize-winning photographis composed of tiny images of the man who tookit. Cao said the irony is that the child in the pic-ture lived. Caos photographs were the talk of thisshow, which, like them, also presented two sidesof a coin.

The Palm Beach Group has created an upscale,white-carpeted antiques show out of what for aquarter-century was the biggest indoor antiquesmarket. Now its center aisles are filled with largestands where dealers present art and antiques inveritable galleries, while some parts of the show,for example the book and ephemera section andadjacent stands rented by generalists, are areminder that this Baltimore show once was apipe-and-drape, mom-and-pop show where some

top dealers set up in order to buy. The sturdywalls and white carpet are a new look that makesthe merchandise look even better.

While the old guard is nostalgic for the old dayswhen mom-and-pop stands providedgreater shopping opportunities, highbooth rents, going higher, have pricedthe part-time, low-end dealers out of thisshow. This is Palm Beach in Balti-more, complained one old-timer, but itisnt Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Jew-elry, Art & Antique Show is the ultimateretail show with the highest gate.

Those who did not know theBaltimore show in the old daysmarveled at the elegance andenjoyed the ambiance and com-fort of white-carpeted floors.Stands stocked by some topdealers with first-rate materialreplaced a group of equallyprominent British and Americandealers who did not return thisyear. Among the new dealerswere Erik Thomsen, a New YorkCity specialist in Japanesescreens and lacquers, andCharles Plante, an Americanwho lives in England but sum-mers at Rehoboth, Delaware,and is known for small framed19th-century watercolors, draw-ings, and small 20th-centurysculpture. Plantes last show wasat Mallett on Madison Avenue inNew York City.

Russack & Loto Books fromNew Hampshire set up its standin the antiques section, not in thebook section, and offered bookson European, Asian, and, theirstock in trade, American decora-tive arts. For the first time,Maria Domont of Domont Jew-elry, West Hollywood, came

with costume jewelry. Jewelry,whether costume or real, is alarge presence at this show, asare womens handbags. Three

The Palm BeachGroup has created anupscale, white-car-

peted antiques showout of what for aquarter-century wasthe biggest indoorantiques market.


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D. Brett Benson, Chicago, offered Bakelitebracelets. Examples in the bottom row rangedfrom $1200 to $7500. The clad Bakelitebracelets on the top row were priced from $950to $2500. The Antique Cupboard, Waukesha, Wisconsin, specialists

in Jensen, Tiffany, and Victorian silver flatware, was oneof a number of dealers in silver flatware and matchingservices. The Tiffany Indian pattern knives, once ownedby William Randolph Hearst, were $1250 for each knife.

Aunt Tink, Reston, Virginia,was the Clarice Cliff specialistat the show this year. GailCrockett asked $1700 for thisZebra Tree Honolulu vase. Itsa low price because it wasrestored. In perfect conditionat the top of the market, onesold for $6000.

Marvin Baer of Ridgewood, New Jersey, offered a fine selection of late19th-century Koransha porcelain from Japan. From left: the pair ofvases cost $2250; the jar, $2250; the temple jar, $1850; and the vase,$1350. Baer said he sold well. He has been doing the show for yearsand keeps in touch with his customers regularly, and they look for-ward to coming to see him. As did many buyers, they received freetickets in the mail.

Ed Weissman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,asked $125,000 for this whalebone ship model.The deck is made of a panbone.

Erik Thomsen Asian Art, New York City, showing in Baltimorefor the first time, offered this pair of Japanese screens depict-ing the four seasons, in gold leaf and mineral colors, priced inthe low six figures.

stands offered Chanel and Her-ms handbags at four- and five-figure sums.

There were very few million-dollar items. M.S. Rau Antiques,New Orleans, brought a Monetoil painting depicting a flood atGiverny and asked $5.85 millionfor it. Michael Teller of TKAsian Antiquities asked $1.3

million for a 3rd-century Chi-nese gold vessel inlaid withturquoise and garnets; he said hesold it.

Dealers were the major buy-ersdealers exhibiting anddealers who made the trip fromNew York and elsewhere, somefrom abroad. Other show pro-moters trolled the show trying tofill their upcoming shows,knowing that they could find500 prospects in one place.

Even though dealers who setup stands got first dibs on buy-ng from each other, some wait-

ed until the show opened beforemaking their deals. Two daysnto the show Jim Alterman of

Lambertville, New Jersey,bought Boca Raton, Florida,dealer Steve Newmans entirestand, most of it sculpture,ncluding two Rodins. New York

City dealer Greg Nanamura saidhis large silver-plated Italiancockatoo wine cooler wasbought on the floor. Just as theshow opened, New Jersey dealerMarvin Baer was on his scooterheading for his stand with aarge Imari charger in his arms.

Half a dozen Chinese dealerswith little on their stands werebuying, mostly jades. Much Chi-

nese was spoken on opening dayas groups of young Chinese menmoved from one stand to anoth-er.

Kris Charamonde said moredecorators came to the show thisyear than last. Some were buy-ng for clients in India and the

Middle East and left with limou-sines and town cars full of pack-ages. When I saw a designerfrom Milan pushing three shop-ping carts I thanked him forcoming, said Charamonde.

Some collectors found whatthey came for. Others, however,eft empty-handed and said they

were surprised that quality wasnot uniformly high at this non-vetted show of enormous vari-ety.

Stephen W. Fisher, whose col-lection of Japanese cloisonnwas shown at the Walters ArtMuseum earlier this year,bought what he called a master-piece vase from Orientations

Gallery, New York City. He saidhe spent $75,000 for it. Japanesecloisonn has been a specialty atOrientations for a generation.

Charamonde said he wasamazed that business for somewas remarkably good, given thestate of the economy. They mayhave not sold much in the six orseven figures, but a good manythings in the fifty-thousand- toninety-thousand-dollar rangechanged hands, he said.

Some dealers said they pulledit out on Sunday. Dealers whomade multiple sales were happyto sign up for next year beforethey left. Some said doing OK inthis market is considered good;they will be back. New YorkCity print and map dealer W.Graham Arader took a smallstand this year and put his sonWalter in charge. Walter said itwas not a good show for them,but Charamonde said Araderwill take larger space next yearand feature a collection of Mary-land maps. The show attractsserious collectors from the U.S.,Europe, and Asia.

There is probably more silverat the Baltimore show than atany other show in the U.S.Mount Kisco, New York, dealer

Bill Drucker said he sold thefirst sugar muffineer made byGeorg Jensen. It has a hand-hammered poppy motif and ismarked number one. MarkMcHugh and Spencer Gordon IIof Spencer Marks, Southamp-ton, Massachusetts, sold a silverArt Nouveau tea and coffee serv-ice by Orivit. A firm in Cologne,Germany that made silver from1901 to 1905, Orivit was knownfor pewter and metalware sold atLibertys in London.

Although several high-profilesilver dealers did not return tothe show this year, three silver

dealers from Great Britain whoin the past had come to shoptook stands for the optimumbuying opportunity. Eventhough dealer-to-dealer businessis a big part of this show, NewYork City silver dealer RobertLloyd said he sold a pair of tallcandlesticks made in London in1764 to a new customer. They

saw my ad in the show catalog,wanted to come to my talk onSaturday afternoon but missedit, and came on Sunday. The bestpart is they are young collec-tors, he said. Lloyd had a goodshow; he also sold an Englishsilver covered porringer from1660 to a private client.

David Brooker, an Englishmanwho has a shop in Woodbury,Connecticut, and exhibits at theLAPADA show in BerkeleySquare in London in September,said he sold 22 paintings at theBaltimore show last year andthat this year he sold 14, most ofthem marine pictures. The showhad a broad range of paintings,an enormous stock of prints, andsome sculpture.

With a huge advertising blitzon TV and in the Baltimore andD.C. newspapers and an endlesssupply of free passes distributedby dealers (each dealer gets 50passes), the managementensured a good gate. Dedicatedcollectors came back day afterday. Some came from afar andstayed at the nearby hotels; oth-ers were day-trippers from D.C.,Virginia, Delaware, and Penn-sylvania. Thursday and Fridayare known as trade days, Satur-

day and Sunday as retail. Everyday was bargaining day.

The consumers know they arein control, said Philadelphiapaintings dealer Mark McCarty.Collectors are making lowoffers, but they are coming back.I think we hit bottom, and busi-ness is on an upswing. There is alot of interest. People areinformed. I am optimistic. Hesold six paintings.

On Thursday a contingent ofdealers who had set up at MelvinArions York, Pennsylvania,antiques show on Wednesdaycame to shop, but they found lit-

tle Americana mixed in with alot of bronze sculptures andivory carvings. Next year couldbe another story. The 2011 Bal-timore show will be held a weekearlier, August 25-28. The Orig-

inal York Antiques Show & Saleis always held the Friday, Satur-day, and Sunday before LaborDay.

I have always wanted toavoid Labor Day when so manypeople have family conflicts,but we could never get the con-vention center the week before,said Charamonde. On LaborDay weekend 2011, the GrandPrix auto race will be in Balti-more, so we got the conventioncenter the weekend before. Ihope that means a group ofdealers with Americana will bepart of this show.

Stay tuned by logging on to

(www.collectorsartnet.com), anew social network site for deal-ers who participate in the Balti-more, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale,and Palm Beach shows, as wellas for collectors and designers.We want to create an interna-tional marketplace connectingdealers with their customers,said Scott Diament, the PalmBeach Group CEO in charge ofthis new venture. Dealers maypost items in multiple views andlink to their Web sites; collec-tors may post wish lists; anddesigners may post examples oftheir work. Membership is free

for now. When the network is upand running successfully, theremay be a small monthly mem-bership fee.

For more information aboutthe Baltimore show, call (561)822-5440; Web site (www.baltimoresummerantiques.com).

Dennis and Dad Antiques, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire,offered a selection of yellowware priced from $400 to$2500. The big pitcher in the middle on the top row was$1850, the one to the left, $2450, and the pitcher on theright, $1950.

This 18" historical blueStaffordshire platter depictsthe headwaters of the Juniata.It is the only known one of thisview marked Stevenson andwas $9000 from Dennis andDad Antiques.


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Richard Wagner of Wagners Weapons and Walk-ing Sticks, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, holds a very tallcane used to get out of a stagecoach. It was $1195.Most of these are cut down, so it is rare, saidWagner.

Glass Past, New York City,wanted $4500 for this sculptur-al glass from the 1960s by theVenetian Toni Zuccheri.

From left: show promoters and jewelry dealers ScottDiament, Robert Samuels, and Kris Charamonde of thePalm Beach Group cut the ribbon for the 30th annualBaltimore Summer Antiques Show, which they boughtfive years ago and turned it into an elegant high-endshow with more than 500 dealers.

Judy Loto is thanked by Kris Charamondefor talking up the show on Baltimores CBSstation on Friday morning.

Walter Arader (right) with Kris Charamonde, who has a promisethat Arader Galleries will take a larger stand next year and fea-ture Maryland prints and maps. Behind them is the Polar Harefrom John James Audubons Viviparous Quadrupeds of NorthAmerica (1845-48), a landmark of American natural history,printed in Philadelphia by J.T. Bowen. The print was $13,000, aspecial price for the Baltimore show; it is usually priced at$18,000. It did not sell.

There is a view of Baltimore in the background of J.J.Audubons Canvas backed Duck. Walter Arader saidthis print generally sells for $150,000, but for thisshow, the price was $115,000.

Pictured are New York City dealer Susan Tosk (center),founder with her late husband of Orientations Gallery,with her colleague David Cole (left) and Baltimore col-lector Stephen W. Fisher. Fishers collection of Japanesecloisonn is one of the finest in the world and was shownat the Walters Art Museum from February to June 2010.

This Japanese cloisonnvase depicting a kingfisherdiving toward a lotus plantwas $38,000 from Orienta-tions Gallery, New YorkCity.

Costume jewelry is a bigpart of this show. Ric theTerrier by Lea Stein, 1968-80, was $225 from NulaThanhauser of East Hamp-ton, New York.Nula Thanhauser holds a peacock purse, a per-

fect examplethe back is even betterpriced at$5800.

Judy Loto of Russack & Loto Books, LLC,Northwood, New Hampshire, bought Rick Rus-sacks book business in 2009 after working withhim for two years. She said they brought books tothis show they would not take to an Americanashow, such as rare folios on European subjects,hoping people would find things they did notalready have in their libraries. They did.

Georg Jensen silver and Saxbo pottery jam jars

from the 1940s from Drucker Antiques, MountKisco, New York. The blue one with a silver lid andsilver spoon (left) was $4800, and the greenish onewith a wood, silver, and ivory cover and silver andivory spoon, $1800.

Bill Drucker said he sold thefirst sugar muffineer made byGeorg Jensen. Marked numberone, it has a hand-hammeredpoppy motif. Drucker photos.

This was the show for figural napkin rings. Sandra Whitson of

Lititz, Pennsylvania, asked $3800 for the pair of tennis players onthe bottom shelf. Other examples were priced from $100 to$5000, the most expensive one being Rip Van Winkle portrayedas a woodsman with a gun. The Triton blowing his shell (bottomleft) was $1800, and the court jester pointing (top shelf) was$2500.

This English valentine inthe shape of a daisy was$100 from Sheryl Jaegerand Ralph Gallo, who calltheirephemerabusiness inTolland, Con-necticut,Eclectibles.


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Collectorsartnet.com, a social network for collec-tors and dealers, is the brainchild of Scott Dia-ment, one of the three partners who promote theBaltimore Summer Antiques Show; the PalmBeach Jewelry,Art & Antique Show; the new FortLauderdale Art,Antique & Jewelry Show; and theDallas International Art,Antique & Jewelry Show.Dealers with the Palm Beach Show Group may

join and for now it is free,but a small membershipfee may be required in the future. The recent CollectorsArtnet.com e-newsletter promotes the ben-

efits of joining. Dealers can create their own inde-pendently managed micro-site on CollectorsArtnet.com and can upload an unlimited number ofmerchandise listings, information about theirgallery, and a banner, logo, and profile picture ofthe owner and gallery personnel. Although deal-er listings are open only to Palm Beach ShowGroups exhibiting dealers, anyone can log on as acollector, and there is an opportunity for designersto join as well. The site has capability for use withiPhones and iPads as well as many other features.

If you go home and wish you had purchasedsomething, you can log on, take another look, andcontact the dealer, said Diament. The site is likefour shows in one. There are three categories:designers, dealers, and shows. We will have pro-files of dealers.

John Atzbach of Redmond, Washington, asked$36,000 for this plate made at the RussianImperial Porcelain Factory for Nicholas I to fillout his Coalport service, which was a gift fromQueen Victoria.

Marcia Moylan and JacquelineSmelkinson of The SpareRoom, Baltimore, have donethe show for 30 years. Theyoffered a group of Hercula-neum pearlware dinner plates,circa 1800, for $750 each.

Mosher Books, Ephrata, Pennsylvania,asked $65 for this poster by Ralph Bartonfor The Tattooed Countess by Carl VanVechten, who in addition to being a writerwas also a well-known photographer. Onecould find good graphics at the show formodest prices. There were half a dozenprint dealers, and many book dealers

offered posters and prints as well as books.Decorators could have a field day.

Ken Leach of Gallery 47, New York City, asked$35,000 for this suite of American Art Nouveaufurniture. The three chairs and a sofa weremade in 1907 by S. Karpen & Brothers, Chica-

go and New York.

James Infante of JerseyCity, New Jersey, asked$24,000 for this 37" highAustrian Art Nouveaudouble-walled reticulatedAmphora pottery vasewith a design of daisies,circa 1900.

These Viennese wine glasses, circa 1907, in yel-low, pink, and amethyst, were $3500 from JamesInfante.

William Cook of Hungerford, Berkshire, England asked$12,000 for the tilt-top center table, possibly by Gillows ofLancaster; it sold. He said the blue-painted cart, 1870-80,that was used to pull children around, is perfect for storingwine bottles; it was $1800. The sideboard with its originalgallery, slide-out shelves, and tin-lined bottle drawer was$13,500.

The Chinese Famille Verterouleau vase from the Kangxi

period (1662-1722), 12" high,with a long provenance of own-ership, was about $60,000 fromMustafa Hassan of ImperialOriental Art, New York City.

Chinese Kangxi porcelain garniture set, priced at around $48,000from Imperial Oriental Art.

Hamish Hog Antiques, Plainfield, NewJersey, offered this Aesthetic Move-ment shelf, probably New York, for$1500.

Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art, Fredericks-burg, Virginia, offered the work of Alix Aym1894-1989), a French painter who worked with

painter Maurice Denis of Les Nabis. She spentmuch of her life in Southeast Asia. This fall herwork will be shown at Evergreen House in Bal-timore, part of Johns Hopkins University. Thiswatercolor drawing was $4800.

Bamboo basket, early 1900s, signedHounsai, $7500 from OrientalTreasure Box, San Diego, California.

Alastair Crawford, LLC, NewYork City, designed this newhandmade fish pitcher thatgurgles when pouring. It is

.925 pure silver and priced at$14,000.

Lisa Gaffney calls her business inSharon, Connecticut, and New YorkCity Terra Mare Antiques becauseshe specializes in natural themes inceramics and decorative arts, espe-cially Art Nouveau, Amphora,French iridescence, and Palissyware. This French irises vase byClement Massier was $1000.


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There were several poster dealers. This rare

Bitter Campari poster by Cappiello, inmint condition, was $12,000 from AntiquePosters.com, Spencer Weisz Galleries, Chica-go. Fewer than ten of these posters areknown.

Eve Stone of Woodbridge, Connecticut, offered English coppermolds priced from $300 to $6500; the most expensive is the largestone, which is marked Fontainebleau. This was her first timeexhibiting at the Baltimore show.

Charles Washburne of Solebury, Pennsylvania, asked$22,475 for the German majolica hunt box withhounds, rifle, and powder horn from the Lonitz potteryand $677 each for the English plates by Alcock.

This China trade oil painting in its originalframe was $7500 from Vallin Galleries,Wilton, Connecticut.

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This Chinese ivory temple, an entrance to the city, was$100,000 from A.B. Levy, Palm Beach, Florida. Itsmade of elephant trunk ivory, circa 1930s.

Seekers Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, offered these three Minton platesdesigned by W.S. Coleman, who was inspired by designs FelixBracquemond created in 1867 for Parisian retailer Eugene Rousseau.The dessert plate at left is from the Aquarium service; the other twoplates are from the Naturalist service. From left, they were priced at$495, $450, and $375.

Michael Leslie of Port N Starboard, Falmouth, Maine,asked $6000 for this model of a four-masted schoonermade by a sailor early in the 20th century.

There was plenty of ephemera at the show. This collec-tion of paper dominoes of maps of France was $1250 forthe collection from Ari Millner of Prints CharmingSoho, New York City.

Stevens Antiques, Frazer, Pennsylvania, offered sculpture. The19th-century marble bust of Antoninus, Hadrians adopted son,was $8750. The wooden figures of Benjamin Franklin ($6240) andJohn Adams ($6850) were possibly carved in New York state. Her-mes was $2750, and the bust of Abraham Lincoln, $5900.

We have had a good showsold a secretary desk, a table, twosets of andirons, some sculpture, two paintings. This is a southernshow; we see people here we see nowhere else, said CaroleLehman, director of the gallery.

This pair of Chinese wine ewers in the form ofa pair of stags, circa 1700, was $55,000 fromSantos, London.

New York City dealer Michael Pashby, show-ng for the first time in Baltimore, asked

$39,500 for the chest of drawers with figuredwalnut veneer, circa 1740. The paktong rose-water ewer and shell basin were $22,500.Pashby said he did business and will be backnext year.

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This Hubley fire truck, circa1912, reflects the transition fromhorse-drawn to motor. It was$2850 from Gemini Antiques,Lebanon, New Jersey.

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This large Yves Saint Laurentbrooch was $2500 from MariaDomont of West Hollywood, Cali-fornia, exhibiting at the Balti-more show for the first time. Theshow has great promoters, so Ithought Id try it, and I havesome customers in Washington,she said. Her stand was often

The Palm Beach Groups next show is the Dallas InternationalArt, Antique & Jewelry Show, October 27-31, with just 100 deal-ers, at a new venue, the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinasin Irving, Texas. The first Dallas show was not an unqualified suc-cess.

A.E. Runge, Jr. of Yarmouth, Maine, offeredthis large (26' x 9') Northeast Persian rug for$35,000.

Pictured at right is one of a pair of circa 1890 thronechairs by Luigi Frullini of Florence, Italy, who did workfor mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. They were$27,000 the pair from Post Road Gallery, Larchmont,New York. The Herter Brothers cabinet from the mid-1880s was $55,000.

There were fewer dealers in English furniture this year,but all of them seemed to sell fairly well. Gary Sergeantof Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $16,500 for this 40" x53" x 27" mahogany breakfront sideboard with a lined

bottle drawer and ebonized molding.

Fountain candle-sticks by Gorham,circa 1960, thatcan be used aswall sconces , acenterpiece withflowers in the cen-ter, or on a buffet,were $3900 fromGary Niederkornof Philadelphia,who said in 25years in business,he has had onlyfour sets.

This early 17th-century Mercator map of Virginia andFlorida was $4500 from Charles Edwin Puckett ofAkron, Ohio.

The Chinese bronze vessels with a rope base, dating

from the Spring and Autumn period of the ZhouDynasty, 600 B.C., were $275,000 from Michael Teller,TK Asian Antiquities, Williamsburg, Virginia. Behindthem are two-sided sliding doors, late 18th century,from a house in southeastern China, priced at $13,000the pair.

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