Rago Toni Schulman Rookwood Pottery Iris Glaze Collection Auction Catalog 2004

<img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/web/aswCredit.gif" border="0"><br><a href="https://auth.ebay.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=AUCTIVACORT1PCHF6D515E51ZQDYJ4&redirect_uri=Auctiva_Corpora-AUCTIVACORT1PCH-oxgahqg&response_type=code&state=eyJTZXNzaW9uSWQiOiJjcmVkTG5rIiwiUmV0dXJuVXJsIjpudWxsLCJJc1NpZ25pbmdVcFdpdGhFYmF5Ijp0cnVlLCJJc0ViYXlEaXJlY3RTaWdudXAiOnRydWV9&scope=https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing.readonly https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.marketing https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.inventory.readonly https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.inventory https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.account.readonly https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.account https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.fulfillment.readonly https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.fulfillment https://api.ebay.com/oauth/api_scope/sell.analytics.readonly&tt=1" target="_blank"><img src="https://ti2.auctiva.com/images/sc1line2.gif" border="0"></a> Post Auction Catalog(s) Title: Rago The Toni Schulman Collection of Rookwood Pottery Auction held in: Lambertville, N.J. Sale Date: 3/6/04 No. of Lots: 149 No. of Pages: 107 Condition: Very Good A Limited Time Offer At A Starting Price of $9.95 One Of The Most Important Single Owner Sales To Come On The Market And A Valuable Reference And Learning Source For Rookwood Pottery!!! This is the second-most significant sale of Rookwood in modern times, topped only by the huge Glover sale [that launched the Cincinnati Art Galleries into the auction business in 1991]," said Bob Hut. The New York collector was looking over the 149 pieces of Rookwood pottery Toni Schulman had collected over 40 years and offered for sale at David Rago's Lambertville, New Jersey, auction gallery on March 6. "There comes a time when a collector wants to do something else," said Schulman, who watched her collection sell from a seat on the first row. "I collected in the early seventies, and I knew David back then when he was buying and selling one piece at a time. I felt he was honest, so I trusted him with my collection." Schulman was not disappointed. Rago hammered down 143 lots for a total of $1,232,000, which came to $1,416,800 with buyers' premiums. It took just two hours and ten minutes to find buyers for all but half a dozen lots—and some of those were sold immediately after the sale. The large number of masterpieces offered beginning at noon on a warm Saturday in early March attracted nearly 150 bidders to Rago's salesroom. "We have thirty left bids, forty live phone bidders, and ninety Internet bidders, so bear with me," said David Rago when he came up to the podium. The sale began when the nine phone-bid takers were ready. The first lot was a scenic Vellum plaque painted by Edward Diers in 1927 depicting El Capitan in Yosemite in pinks and lavenders. It sold for $57,500 to New York Tiffany collector Eric Streiner, who had never bought a piece of Rookwood before. By the end of the day, he had bought 14 pieces. The next lot, a carved Black Iris vase by Matthew Daly with big pink poppies in high relief against a jet-black ground, sold to a phone bidder for $57,500, and the sale was off and running. Lot 3, an exceptional tall Iris glaze landscape vase painted with feathery birch trees at dusk by Kataro Shirayamadani in 1911, was pictured in the exhibition catalog From Our Native Clay, the 1987 art pottery exhibition at Christie's. It sold to a Minnesota collector seated on the second row for $34,500. There were phone bidders and bidders in the room for Matthew A. Daly's 1900 Standard glaze Indian portrait pillow vase. Sioux Chief Hollow Horn Bear was depicted wearing a full-feathered headdress and a quill breastplate. It is signed on the front "Chief Hollow Horn Bear, Sioux, M.A. Daly." It sold to New York collector Jordan Lubitz, who said he had been the underbidder at Christie's years ago when Toni Schulman bought it for $32,000. It cost him $74,750, and he was thrilled to have it. Lubitz likes Indians, and he battled three phone bidders when the Rookwood plaque with a portrait of Sioux Chief High Hawk came on the block. Painted by Grace Young in 1903 and shown at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, this 14 3/4 inches x 10 inches plaque is in its original frame. When Lubitz folded his bidding number and put it in his shirt pocket, the plaque was hammered down for $75,000 to a phone bidder, who, with buyer's premium, paid $86,250, more than three times the $25,000 Schulman paid for it in 1975 when she bought it from dealers Elliot and Enid Wysor. It was the highest price of the sale. The same phone bidder, number 903, also bought a Standard glaze plaque of a standing Indian painted by William P. McDonald in 1886, paying $54,625 for it, and an extremely rare Indian portrait charger painted in black on a red clay by Henry Franois Farny. Farny was a well-known Western artist who also designed one of the early trademarks for Rookwood and, according to the catalog, was the one who suggested Indian designs as a subject for Rookwood pottery. The charger brought its high estimate, $15,000, which came to $17,250 with buyer's premium, and the cognoscenti in the crowd thought it was a bargain. Several other collectors bought more than one piece. The collector who bought the Kataro Shirayamadani Iris glaze landscape vase painted with birches also bought for $69,000 a stunning large Sea Green vase painted in 1899 with a large sea gull against a background of the sea at dawn in tones of blue, pink, green, and black by William McDonald. Rago called it one of the best pieces of Art Nouveau ceramics he'd ever seen. Three phone bidders battled for a tall vase with bronze overlay leaves and a lotus flower, on which Kataro Shirayamadani painted a heron about to land. It sold on the phone for $40,250 to the buyer of lot 2, the Black Iris vase with pink poppies. That same bidder, on the phone with Suzanne Perrault, also paid $43,125 for an exceptional Black Iris glaze bulbous vase with blue birds of paradise in relief by Matthew Daly in 1899. "I've only seen two of these in thirty-five years," said Rago from the podium. There was considerable interest in plaques, and the collectors who bought them said they bought them as paintings. Two Iris glaze framed Rookwood plaques, one titled A Bit of New England Coast, the other Summer Afternoon, Long Island Sound, painted in 1903 by Sturgis Laurence, suggest studies by Winslow Homer. The first one sold for $40,250 and the second for $37,375 to a couple in the salesroom. Schulman said she bought the two plaques from David Rago in 1977 for $10,000. The same buyers bought a scenic Vellum plaque with beige, green, and blue landscape by Arthur Conant that calls to mind a Cézanne in the way green trees skewer the middle distance. There were a number of bidders for a smaller framed Homer-like seascape on a barbotine plaque painted by Mary Keenan that sold for $34,500 (est. $6500/8500) to Eric Streiner. "I bought a Winslow Homer and a Martin Johnson Heade today," he said, holding up a Standard glaze plaque with a yellow orchid against a brown background and the RP with flames date mark. He paid $9775, well over the $2000 high estimate, for the orchid plaque. "The Yosemite El Capitan is my Bierstadt," he added. Streiner said he bought an early sea foam green pitcher painted in the Japanese style with brown crabs because it reminded him of Tiffany mixed metals. It cost him a reasonable $1265. It was one of the few lots that fell below its estimate, $1500/2000. A large greenish fish swimming on a sand-colored Sea Green vase, painted by E. Timothy Hurley, for which Streiner paid $23,000, is similar to those Tiffany silversmiths applied to pitchers. In the 1960's and 1970's, silver overlays, portrait vases, and Japanese-inspired Rookwood were the rage. They are not as popular today. Big pieces of overlay by well-known artists, however, sold well at this sale. For example, a large silver overlaid Standard glaze vase by Matthew Daly painted in 1893 with large orange chrysanthemums, the silver overlay in a design of flowers and a nude woman (est. $6000/9000), sold for $14,950. A 4 1/2 inches tall Sea Green pillow vase decorated by Edward Diers with tall iris leaves and wrapped in a modeled iris flower covered with bronze overlay (est. $10,000/15,000) sold for $23,000 to a phone bidder. It was also illustrated in From Our Native Clay. Irises were popular with Rookwood artists over a long period. 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