Are you keeping or selling? As Crocker Farms said, their estimate is conservative. Did they want it for auction?
If you look closely, I think you will see some paint remnants on it (2nd and 3rd pics). I think it may have been originally painted but has been...
Here is the info on these paintings: Painting A is by listed German painter Franz Högner (1903-1979). He was an accomplished artist that worked...
I am finding several of these. All say flagpole topper........
Final thoughts on these paintings. I am crazy about painting A. It portrays the factory in a dynamic way. While it seems dark and foreboding,...
As you have found, this is a good one. This kind of decoration elevates a plain crock to an exceptional one.
While plywood was available earlier, it was not in widespread use in this country (US) til the 30s.
Not without a label. There were hundreds of makers and it really doesn't matter who made it if not by one of the very top makers of the day. I...
Decorative plaques in the mode of early portrait miniatures. With plywood backings, would have to be 30s or later. Possibly, much later. A look...
Clutteredcloset is right on. Sometimes called golden oak period furniture.
German or Dutch shrunk (or shrank). Maybe 50s or so.
Have been off-line for a couple days. Appreciate the comments. Keep them coming. For what it is worth, the frame on A is original to the...
The mark doesn't look right to me. Some small pieces were marked with just LCT but even slightly larger pieces usually had the word Favrile as...
I think newer. If you look at the ragged edge at the bottom, the paint goes right up to the edge. I would think that if this were painted before...
This is not a form that I am familiar with as coming from China. It is more similar to some rustic furniture coming out of Indonsesia. The...
Tables like this have been made since Victorian times. The details are vaguely renaissance revival / French rococo. Later ones were imported...
Have kind of thrown a curve ball at you all with this last painting offered in comparison with painting B. It is by the famous impressionist...
Yes, very interesting item that on the surface seems to be too good to be true. After seeing the Christies' examples, there seems to at least to...
Large cities definitely have a better market but it is still hard to find the buyers. I tried selling my windows in my Chicago space for two...
I see high prices on stained glass all the time but don't see it selling for those prices often. Maybe some high end clients that want just the...
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