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 […]
June 24, 2006 Auction Highlights
Our Saturday, June 24th auction at the New City Cafe was a big success. Listed below are some highlights from this auction: (prices realized do not 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. Rare East Tennessee painted child’s chest, Washington […]
A very fine and highly decorated “Great Road” pottery pitcher attributed to the Cain Pottery
A very fine and highly decorated redware pitcher attributed to the Cain pottery of Sullivan County, Tennessee will be offered in the May 12th auction. The elaborate use of manganese and yellow slip to decorate the exterior body of the pitcher, manganese runs in the interior, and inscribed sine waves around the midsection make it […]