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Thrown, glazed, fired and occasionally chipped. Crazing is noted, not hidden.
All 8 ceramics lots
Celadon teapot with bound cane handle$245ClosingBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 2 minutes 0 seconds.
Wide-shouldered vessel, oatmeal to rust$460Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 47 minutes 0 seconds.
Six iron-glazed dinner plates$285Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 1 hour 12 minutes.
Tall thrown vase, iron slip over bone$320Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 2 hours 14 minutes.Seating and case goods, each with its finish history stated in plain words.
All 12 furniture lots
Walnut-framed lounge chair in oatmeal bouclé$1,450Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 11 minutes 0 seconds.
Danish teak sideboard, sculpted pulls$2,100Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 58 minutes 0 seconds.
Turned oak three-legged stool$165Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 33 minutes 0 seconds.
Rattan and cane lounge chair with linen cushion$690Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 1 hour 28 minutes.
Three studio glass vessels$380Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 1 hour 36 minutes.
Smoke glass decanter and two tumblers$195Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 1 hour 58 minutes.
Amber bubble bowl$165Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 2 hours 34 minutes.
Pair of smoke glass tumblers$30Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Closes inCloses in 2 hours 48 minutes.Washed, moth-checked, and photographed from the back as well as the front.
All 7 textiles lots
Flatwoven wool rug, ochre and rust bands$350Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Opens inOpens in 1 hour 32 minutes.
Flatweave runner, ochre ground$220Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Opens inOpens in 1 hour 32 minutes.
Handwoven wool textile, geometric bands$180Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Opens inOpens in 1 hour 32 minutes.
Wool yardage, sage and bone$60Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Opens inOpens in 1 hour 32 minutes.5 sales
Each sale is a coherent group rather than a bin. We hold an object back for the right sale instead of pushing it into the next one, which is why a chair does better here than it would in a general sale.
Bidding open 10 lots
Studio ceramics and hand-blown glass
Fourteen lots of studio pottery and blown glass, most of it made within two hundred miles of the saleroom. Glaze faults, crazing and kiln kisses are photographed rather than described, because a photograph of a hairline is worth four sentences about one.
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First lot closes Fri, Sep 4, 7:38 AM PDT
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Bidding open 12 lots
Mid-century seating, case goods and one very good stool
Furniture is the hardest thing to buy at distance, so every lot in this sale carries its own turntable or its own set of study crops, and a finish note that states plainly whether you are looking at an original surface or a sympathetic refinish.
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First lot closes Fri, Sep 4, 8:13 AM PDT
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Vintage watches and small carried objects
Watches, leather and the sort of small brass objects that end up in a drawer for forty years. Every watch states its service date, what was replaced, and whether the dial is original — the three lines that decide the price.
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Handwoven textiles, rugs and hangings
Flatweaves, hangings and yardage, all washed, moth-checked under daylight and photographed from the reverse as well as the face. Wear is marked on the photograph rather than buried in a sentence.
Closed 10 lots
Closed — full results published
Our August sale, closed and settled. Hammer prices are published for every lot that sold, and lots that passed or went unsold are listed with the same prominence, because a results page that only shows the wins is not a results page.
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ClosingBidding is open on this lot.No reserveThe glaze breaks iron over every throwing ring, which is exactly what you want and impossible to photograph badly.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveMade alongside lot 1 and glazed in the same firing. Buy both and they will match; buy one and it will not.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Turn it right round before you bid. The back of a chair is where the honesty is.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.The movement is new. The face is not. We would rather tell you than have you find out.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Two of the three carry a kiln kiss where they touched in the firing. We would not have separated them either.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveSomebody sat on this for forty years and left a dish in the seat. That is the whole appeal.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveA big quiet shape that does most of its work from across a room, and the rest of it up close.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Seventy-one inches of teak and one ring mark. We have photographed the ring mark.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Six plates that have already survived thirty years of dinners. They will survive yours.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Rewired, tested and tagged. Turn it around on the turntable and you can see where the arm has been re-brazed.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Light enough to move with one hand, which is more than can be said for most of this sale.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Bought as a group because they were made as a group. Selling as one for the same reason.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveThe base alone would be worth the low estimate. The shade is a bonus and is not original.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveThe stopper still seats with that small glass sound, which is the entire argument for buying old glass.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.The ink stain on the leather is forty years old and is not going anywhere. We priced it accordingly.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveThrown tall and thin enough that you can see the potter changed their mind about the shoulder.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Half the length of lot 12, and it will fit through a standard doorway without an argument.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.Controlled bubble work that throws proper caustics on a windowsill. Photograph does not do it justice; nothing does.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveThe desilvering at the four o’clock edge is the only thing wrong with it, and it is photographed below.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveHeavier than they look, which is the point of them.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.The pair to lot 11, sold separately because pairs almost never stay together and pretending otherwise inflates the estimate.
Bidding openBidding is open on this lot.No reserveLower than lot 13 and worn on a different part of the seat, which tells you it lived in a different room.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Original dial, original hands, original lume. Serviced in March. Those four facts are the lot.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveThe dial has gone brown. Some buyers pay more for that and some pay less, so we have simply photographed it.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveSaddle-stitched by hand. You can count the stitches per inch in the detail views, and we suggest you do.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveFrom the same hand and the same hide as lot 25. Half the size and a quarter of the estimate.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveUnpolished, and we would leave it that way. Sixty years of tarnish is not dirt.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveThe kind of object that ends up by a front door holding keys for thirty years.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.A deliberately mismatched pair, sold as found. One is two inches taller and always was.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveThe knot in the wall is the reason it was cheap in 1968 and the reason it is interesting now.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveOne coil has broken. It is at the back and it is photographed, because at this price you should know.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveChipped at the rim, sound everywhere else, and it will outlive everybody reading this.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveTurned from the same board as lot 30. The figure runs the same way.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveSound all the way round, unlike its larger sibling two lots up.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.Photographed face and reverse, because the back of a flatweave is where the truth lives.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.A hallway length, woven on the same warp as lot 35 and with the same hand-spun weft.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveFolded for the photograph, but it is a single unpieced width — which is rarer than it sounds.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveA short length off the end of the warp, which is why it is cheap and why the selvedge is imperfect.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveAreas of open warp, on purpose. If you want a solid weaving this is not it.
Opens soonBidding has not opened on this lot yet.No reserveThe study for lot 39, woven first and kept.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.Sold at the top of the estimate to a bidder who had asked for four extra photographs first. That is how it should work.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.No reserveA no-reserve lot that found its own level in the last ninety seconds, twice extended.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.Sold under the low estimate because floor lamps are expensive to ship and everybody in the room knew it.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.The corner repair was catalogued, photographed and marked. It sold anyway, at a fair number.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.No reserveA genuinely matched pair, which is why it made twice what the mismatched pair in the current sale is likely to.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.Professionally re-caned before the sale, which we said in the first line of the catalogue entry rather than the last.
SoldThis lot is sold. Bidding is closed.No reserveEight plates, no reserve, and the winning bidder paid less per plate than a chain store charges.
UnsoldThis lot went unsold — it received no bids. Bidding is closed.No reserveUnsold. Not one bid. We have left it on the results page because a results page that hides these is a marketing page.
PassedThis lot was passed — the bidding did not meet the reserve. Bidding is closed.Passed. The dial has been refinished, we said so, and the room agreed with our reserve rather than with the vendor.
PassedThis lot was passed — the bidding did not meet the reserve. Bidding is closed.Passed at $180 against a $260 reserve. The chip was in the stopper grind and the room was right to hold back.
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