Case Antiques Inc., Auctions & Appraisals, has announced the opening of a branch office in Nashville, Tennessee. The company also announced the Nashville office will be under the direction of Sarah Campbell Drury, who has been hired as Vice President for Decorative Arts. Drury was formerly President of Campbell–Drury, LLC, an art and antiques appraisal […]
Early Southern Pottery feature in A! Magazine for the Arts
Early regional pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia is featured in the July 2009 issue of A! Magazine for the Arts, a publication of Arts Alliance Mountain Empire in Bristol, TN. For more information: Early Regional Pottery.
East Tennessee and Soutwestern Virginia Pottery lecture at MESDA
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 […]