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April 26, 2003 Auction Highlights Spatter and Gaudy Dutch Collection The kaleidoscope of red, blue, yellow, green, purple, teal, brown, and rainbow spatter tableware offered at Pook & Pook, Inc.’s Downingtown, Pennsylvania gallery made the April 26, 2003, single-owner sale a festive spring day for those lucky, and persistent enough, to take home items from the collection consigned by Franklin and Marshall College of Lancaster, Pa. The 420-lot sale represented a portion of the ceramics received by the College as a gift from Dr. Robert L. Schaeffer, Jr. in 1987. These items were deaccessioned from Franklin and Marshall’s Phillips Museum, sold through Pook & Pook, and the proceeds used to create the Robert L. Schaeffer, Jr. Endowment Fund for the maintenance of the Museum’s permanent collection, with preference given to acquisition and conservation. The sales for the items sold in the April sale grossed a total of $778,000 and combined with the results from the February offering, the two sales yielded $1,059,000 for the Schaeffer Endowment Fund. Of the eight lots selling for 5-figures in the April sale, the top spot was a tie between two lots selling for $23,000 - a green and black rainbow spatter cup and saucer with red thistle and a vibrant red, blue and green rainbow plate with circle, star and half moon decoration and ribbed rim. The next highest price realized also produced a tie between to lots at $21,850 - a rare red spatter cup and saucer with “two men on a raft” decoration and a large and unusual red, green and blue rainbow spatter platter with central criss-cross pattern. A vibrant red, green, yellow, and blue rainbow drape cup and saucer made $20,700. All the top lots went to bidders in the sales room, who along with the other 70 registered bidders, were so intent on their purchases that offered breaks in the sales proceedings were twice declined in favor of advancing through the ample catalogue offerings. The color intensity and rarity of spatter contributes tremendously to its realized prices. As such, even pieces with some damage surprised the bidding crowds with high sale prices. For example, a green spatter cup with cow decoration with a large chip and a crack sold for $3,450 against an estimate of $400-800, as no other examples of the cow decoration are currently known. A red, green, yellow and blue rainbow spatter drape plate had two large chips to the rim, but still sold for $17,250 due to its color and rarity. The mixture of cups, saucers, plates, sugar bowls, pitchers, platters and creamers sold still left many lots in a variety of price points. A rare blue miniature cup with the red and black “public outhouse” pattern made $1,610. A red and purple rainbow spatter saucer in the rare townhouse pattern sold for an outstanding $6,325. A blue spatter cup and saucer with red, yellow and blue shed was also a standout at $2,530. Two lots, each consisting of a red spatter cup and saucer with blue, red and yellow windmill, sold for the identical price of $8,625. An assortment of pieces in the “red schoolhouse” pattern with particularly vibrant lawn, trees and borders provoked some dedicated bidders to push average sale prices even higher including cup and saucer sets selling for $2,300 and $5,520, and plates selling for $3,450, $3,738, and $6,325. The 27 lots of Gaudy Dutch in patterns such as urn, warbonnet, butterfly, grape and carnation sold for prices ranging from $259 to $4,830. The top price of this category was a cup plate in the butterfly pattern for $4,830. A primrose plate sold for $4,140, while a pitcher and a teapot in the warbonnet pattern made $2,300 and $3,910, respectively. For further information on Pook & Pook, Inc.’s April 26 sale,
please call (610) 269-0695 / (610) 269-4040, write PO Box 268, Downingtown,
Pa. 19335, or visit the web site www.pookandpook.com. |
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