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James
R. Bakker Antiques, Inc. together with Robert
Edwards held a single owner sale of important
Byrdcliffe objects on Thursday, October 27,
2005
Abbreviated lot listings and prices realized
follow below
Fully illustrated catalogue: $25 ( available
after October 7th )
Send check or money order payable to James
R. Bakker, 248 Bradford Street, Provincetown,
MA 02657
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Lot
1
White
Pines
Zulma Steele
American, 1916
monoprint, 3 1/16½ x 4 15/16½ (image) 3 1/2½ x 4 3/8½
(paper)
$632.50
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Lot
2
Jane
Byrd Radcliffe-Whitehead and Peter Whitehead, ca. 1905
Eva Watson-Schütze (American 1867-1935)
platinum print, 8½x 6½
$1265
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Lot
3
Ralph
Radcliffe-Whitehead, ca. 1905
Eva Watson-Schütze (American 1867-1935)
platinum p
rint,
8½x 6½
$2070 |
Lot
4
THE
HERMANN DUDLEY MURPHY CHIFFONIER
ca. 1904
oak with remnants of original transparent green
stain and with the original bronze hardware branded
“BYRDCLIFFE 1904” with the colony’s
lily cypher
oil paintings signed with Hermann Dudley Murphy’s
red monogram painted in the lower right corner of
the right panel 27 1/4½x 38½x 14 3/4½
$207,000
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Lot
5
“PURPLE
HILLS”
ca. 1914
Zulma Steele (American 1881-1979)
oil on canvasboard with original frame
8½x 10½ (painting)
signed “Zulma Steele” in lower left corner
$2875
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Lot
6
“BYRDCLIFFE,
N0. 4”
ca.1914
Zulma Steele
oil on canvasboard with original frame
8 1/4½ x 10 1/4½ (painting)
$2875
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Lot
7
COLUMBINE
ca. 1904
Zulma Steele
ink and watercolor
7 1/2½ x 14 1/2½
signed lower right with Steele’s monogram
$4255
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Lot
8
NARCISSUS
ca. 1904
Zulma Steele
ink and watercolor
5 5/8½ x 12 3/8½
signed lower right with Steele’s monogram
$2070
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Lot
9
RUG
DESIGN
ca. 1910
Marie Little (American 1866-1949)
watercolor 12½x 18½
unsold
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Lot
10
WHITEHEAD
PUBLICATIONS
Birds of God
“Angels and sundry imaginative figures
from the pictures of the masters of the Renaissance
selected for children by J.B. Radcliffe-Whitehead
with an introduction by R. Radcliffe-Whitehead.”
R. H.Russell,New York 1902
The Morning Stars Sang Together:
Folk Songs and Other Songs for Children
Jane Byrd Radcliffe-Whitehead, Editor
Oliver Ditson Company, Philadelphia
Copyrighted 1903, 1931 edition
The Vita Nuova of Dante
Introduction: Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
Chiswick Press, London, 1892
The Unemployed: “Laborare est orare.”
(Arrows of the Dawn, No. 1)
Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
Montecito, 1895
Pictures for Schools
(Arrows of the Dawn, No. 3)
Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
“Montecito, Easter, 1901”
“A Plea for Manual Work”
Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
Handicraft,Vol. II, no. III
The Society of Arts and Crafts,Boston June 1903
$287.50
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Lot
11
WEST COAST LANDSCAPE
1891
Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead
oil on canvasboard with Byrdcliffe frame
(gold filet is modern)
10½x 14½ (painting)
signed “Jane Byrd, 1891” in pencil on the
reverse
$2300
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Lot
12
NATURE
STUDY
ca. 1895
Jane Byrd Radcliffe-Whitehead
watercolor
5 1/4½x 8 7/8½
$431.25
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Lot
13
STUDY
FOR ARCADY MURAL
ca.1898
Leonard Lester (1870-1952)
oil on linen on board
6½x 27 7/8½
$920
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Lot
14
VIEW
FROM ARCADY
ca. 1895
Jane Byrd Radcliffe-Whitehead
oil on wood panel
5 1/2½x 9 3/8½
“Byrdcliffe 1904” lily cypher
branded on the reverse
$1725
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Lot
15
VIEW
FROM ARCADY
ca. 1898
Leonard Lester
oil on canvas
11 1/2½x 20 1/4½
signed in pencil on the reverse “Leonard Lester”
$2760
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Lot
16
TROY
TOWN
ca. 1893
Halsey Ricardo (1854-1928)
hand-carved De Morgan ceramic tile blanks in period
copper frame
9
1/21/2 x 281/2 tiles stamped on the reverse with De
Morgan’s Sand’s End Pottery mark
$5750
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Lot
17
A
SAND”S END POTTERY TILE
ca. 1885
William De Morgan & Co.
glazed earthenware
5 7/8½x 5 7/8½
De Morgan’s Sand’s End Pottery mark on the
reverse
$977.50
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Lot
18
A
SAND’S END POTTERY TILE
ca. 1885
William De Morgan & Co.
glazed earthenware
5 7/8½x 5 7/8½
De Morgan’s Sand’s End Pottery mark
stamped on the reverse
$862.50
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Lot
19
A
SAND’S END POTTERY TILE
ca. 1885
William De Morgan & Co.
glazed earthenware
5 7/8½x 5 7/8½
De Morgan’s Sand’s End Pottery mark
stamped on the reverse
$690
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Lot
20
A
MERTON ABBEY TILE
ca. 1888
Halsey Ricardo/William De Morgan
glazed earthenware
6½x 6½
Merton Abbey mark stamped on the reverse
$287.50
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Lot
21
WHITE
PINES POTTERY VASE
ca. 1915
Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
earthenware with aubergine glazed exterior
and “Byrdcliffe blue” glazed interior
White Pines paper label
14 1/4½ (height)
$4485
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Lot
22
WHITE
PINES POTTERY VASE
ca. 1915
Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
earthenware with a matte “Byrdcliffe blue”
exterior
and a cerulean blue interior
White Pines paper label
13 1/4½ (height)
$3680
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Lot
23
“TIROL”
SETTLE
ca. 1904
design by Dawson Dawson-Watson
(American 1864-1939)
poplar with polychrome stain
branded “BYRDCLIFFE 1904” with the colony’s
lily cypher
68½x 68½x 26½
unsold
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Lot
24
“TIROL”
LIBRARY TABLE
ca. 1904
design by Dawson Dawson-Watson
poplar with polychrome stain
bears a unique painted lily cypher with “BYRDCLIFFE
1904”
26 3/4½x 72 3/4½ x 30 1/8½
A Tirol table with oak-leaf decorations was also planned.“Tirol”
refers to
the furniture forms,which were based on North Italian
Gothic designs.
unsold
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Lot
25
LIBRARY TABLE
ca. 1904
oak
30 1/4½x 84 1/4½x 36 1/2½
Identical examples of this table are now in the collection
of the Woodstock Public Library.Working drawings for
this design are in the Downs Collection,Winterthur
$7475
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Lot
26
WHITE
PINES POTTERY VASE
ca. 1915
Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-Whitehead
earthenware with matte blue glazed
exterior and “Byrdcliffe blue” glazed interior
White Pines paper label
13 1/4½ (height)
$2990
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Lot 27
WHITE
PINES VASE
ca. 1915
Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-
Whitehead
glazed earthenware
5 3/4½ (height)
$1840
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Lot
28
WHITE
PINES POTTERY VASE
ca. 1915
Jane and Ralph Radcliffe-
Whitehead
glazed earthenware
6 3/4½ (height)
$2070
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Lot
29
BLANKET
CHEST
ca. 1904
carved panels designed by Zulma Steele
oak with polychrome stain, iron hinges and brass fittings
20 1/4½x 50 1/4½x 22 1/4½
Original drawings accompany the chest.
$57,500
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