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Boston, MA, United States
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Boston Collects
BOSTON, MA – Following Doyle's successful Inaugural Boston Auction, join us for Boston Collects on Friday, September 29, 2023 at Noon. Held in Doyle's Boston gallery and livestreamed on Doyle.com, the Boston Collects auction will feature a wide range of artwork, furniture, Americana, silver, decorative arts and jewelry from collections and estates in the New England area and beyond. Highlighting the sale is Property from the Private Collection of Sylvia Napier.
Doyle’s Inaugural Boston Auction on June 8 surpassed expectations with spirited competition throughout the sale. Competition was widespread, as successful buyers represented not only the Boston area, but states from coast to coast, as well as countries on four continents
Boston Collects, Doyle Boston’s second auction, continues to expand Doyle’s presence in Boston and New England, featuring fine art, furniture, decorative arts, silver, and jewelry from local estates and collections.
Furniture from various owners is highlighted by Massachusetts-made furniture from a private New York collection, including two Chippendale mahogany chests of drawers, a lolling chair, an inlaid sofa probably made in Boston, and an impressive Federal gentleman’s secretary made in Salem, Massachusetts, attributed to Nehemiah Adams (1769-1840) by its similarities to a labeled piece in the collection at Winterthur. The secretary was sold eighty-five years ago when the collection of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst was offered at Parke-Bernet.
Other property with strong ties to Boston and long private provenance comes from the Estate of Mary Helen & Robert K. McMenamin, including a paint-decorated fire bucket made in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, an oil on canvas portrait of a clipper ship, a folky watercolor of the vessel Kanhawa of Boston, and a portrait of David Dodge, a resident of and town clerk in Charlestown.
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