KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— From paintings that once hung in a museum to a Butch Cassidy “Wanted” poster that once hung in a sheriff’s office, diversity is the theme at the Winter Case Antiques Auction, set for Saturday, January 26 at the company’s gallery in Knoxville. The auction features art and antiques being sold by three Tennessee […]
Lot 181: Painting and photos of Richard Alexander home
Oil on board impressionist style painting depicting the home of the Richard Alexander family in Dixon Springs, Tennessee. A white frame house is partially visible at left behind a fence and numerous trees, while at right is a river with boat floating by. En verso is a handwritten note: "Home of Dr. Richard Alexander Dixon […]
Lot 42: Two Nashville coin silver spoons, E. Raworth
Two coin silver tablespoons or serving spoons with downturned fiddle handles, monogrammed RNA and marked on back E. Raworth in rectangle. 9-1/8" L, 4.12 oz troy. Note: According to TENNESSEE SILVERSMITHS by Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Edward Raworth was one of Nashville's earliest silversmiths, working there as early as 1808. His final ad ran in […]
MESDA 2012 Conference comes to Knoxville, TN October 25-27
Case Antiques is delighted to welcome The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts to East Tennessee! MESDA, based in Winston-Salem, NC, is bringing its 2012 Conference on Material Culture to Knoxville Oct. 25-27. The MESDA conference is the only major forum for scholarly presentation on American material culture and decorative arts with a specific emphasis […]
Selling
A Few Auction Highlights Virginia Frye-Martin school Bookcase on Bureau Sold $93,600 7.32 Oval Diamond, VS1/G & 2 FIY GIA 3-stone Ring Sold $168,000 C A Haun Earthenware Pottery Jar, Greene Co., TN Sold $36,000 William Edmondson Sculpture, The Preacher Sold $540,000 Henry Moret Landscape Painting Sold $132,000 Birger Sandzen O/C Landscape Sold $97,200 George […]
News Release: Stars and Stripes dominate Case’s Oct. 1 auction
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— Forget red, orange and brown. The colors of fall are red, white and blue at the Oct.1 Case Antiques Auction, as an important patriotic Americana and flag collection headlines the sale. The 700+ lot auction also includes American and European fine art and decorative arts, Asian antiques, and Southern regional material. It will […]
News Release: Rare Beatles album rocks Case’s Spring Auction
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.— A record number of floor and phone bidders, a record number of online bidders, and a signed Beatles record that sold for $63,250 all combined to make the May 21st Spring Case Antiques auction the company’s most successful sale to date. “While having a strong single lot like the Beatles album is great, […]
Rare Southern Pottery, ex-Museum pieces and more featured at Case’s Fall Auction on October 16, 2010
Rare Southern pottery, furniture that once graced rooms at Nashville’s Belle Meade Mansion, and acollection of Mexican masks deaccessioned by the Knoxville Museum of Art arejust a few of the 700 lots featured at the Fall Case Antiques Auction, set forOctober 16 at the company’s gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee. One of the outstanding pottery lots […]
Case Antiques, Inc. to sponsor Tennessee Decorative Arts Symposium at Belmont Mansion, April 23 & 24, 2010
Case Antiques, Inc. Auctions and Appraisals is proud to sponsor the Tennessee Decorative Arts Symposium at Belmont Mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 23 and 24. Join scholars, collectors, and historians from diverse backgrounds as they examine and interpret the material culture and decorative arts of the South with an emphasis on Tennessee. The event begins with […]
Jan. 23, 2010 Auction Highlights
Highlights from the January 23rd, 2010 Antiques & Art Auction in Knoxville are listed below: (prices realized include a 13.5% buyer’s premium) If you are interested in consigning items of this quality for future auctions, please contact us at info@caseantiques.com. Lot 6 – Rare 1904 Giers Confederate Cavalry Veterans photo of Troop A, Nashville, TN. […]