John Case, President, Case Antiques, Inc. will give a lecture on East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia Earthenware at the Museum of Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute 2009: Ethnicity to Regionalism: Explorations in Backcountry Material Culture on July 14th.
May 16th, 2009 Auction Highlights
———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Highlights from the May 16th, 2009 Antiques & Art Auction in Knoxville are listed below: (prices realized include a 13.5% buyer’s premium) Lot 1 – Painted Tole flower metal box with hinged lid & 2 locks. Old painted surface, possibly not original with fading tole painting. One lock missing. Small pinhole to lid. Three […]
MESDA & Friends Winter Study Trip to East Tennessee, Jan. 5th-8th, 2009
East Tennessee welcomed the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) staff & friends for a Winter study trip to East Tennessee January 5th-8th, 2009. The trip agenda included visits to the William King Regional Center in Abingdon, Virginia, the Carter Mansion in Elizabethton, TN, and private collections in Kingsport. Visits to Greeneville included the […]
Dec. 6, 2008 Auction Highlights
Highlights from the December 6th, 2008 Southern Antiques Auction in Knoxville are listed below: (prices realized include a 12.5% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com. Lot 1 – “The Militia Law of the State of Tennessee”. “Printed by Authority, Nashville: S. […]
Brief Biography of Tennessee artists in the Dec. 6th, 2008 auction
Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (b. Pennsylvania 1873- d. Nashville 1943) Like the Italian Renaissance artist who shared her middle name, Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was a female painter who thrived in a male-dominated field. A great-great-granddaughter of Charles Willson Peale, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under William Merritt Chase and Cecilia Beaux. She […]
Sept. 27, 2008 Auction Highlights
Highlights from the September 27th, 2008 Southern Antiques Auction in Knoxville are listed below: (prices realized include a 12.5% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com. Lot 1 – “The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture and Its Makers Through 1850” by […]
April 19, 2008 Auction Highlights
Highlights from our April 19th, 2008 Southern Antiques Auction in Knoxville are listed below: (prices realized include a 10% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com. Lot#2 – Carte-de-visite CDV photo album of Nashville Tennessee interest, embossed leather covers, pressed metal clasps, […]
Sept. 15th, 2007 Auction Highlights (held in Nashville, TN)
Highlights from our September 15th, 2007 Southern Antiques Auction in Nashville are listed below: (prices realized include a 10% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com. Lot#182 – Rare portrait on ivory of young boy, attributed to John Wood Dodge (1807-1893, working […]
May 12, 2007 Auction Highlights
Highlights from our May 12th, 2007 Southern Antiques Auction are listed below: (prices realized include a 10% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com.
Discovery of North Carolina desk and bookcase, Jesse Needham School
Lot 40. Desk and bookcase, attributed to Jesse Needham (c.1770-after 1840), Randolph County, North Carolina, dated 1812. Walnut primary wood; tulip poplar secondary. HOA 89 ½” ; WOA 44 5/8″ desk case, 42 ½” bookcase; DOA 21 1/16″ desk case, 9 7/8″ bookcase;Inscriptions: [S] B/ 1812 on sliding partition behind prospect case; Bo[de]? on base […]