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Famed Portraits Of Benjamin Franklin By Duplessis On View At The Met FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 • VOL. 47, NO. 37
Glass Works Auctions Offers The Bob Ferraro Collection Glass Works Auctions will be closing part one of the Bob Ferraro collection of early American Bitters and Whiskey bottles on Monday, Sept. 12. This is the first of three absentee auctions of this iconic 45-year collection. The Lambertville, N.J., and East Greenville, Pa., based company, Glass Works, holds the absentee auctions for a period of two weeks. Bidding opens two Mondays prior to the closing date. Part two of the Ferraro collection will end Monday, Nov. 7. Part three will end on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. Only 140 bottles are in the collection. “The collect i o n housed only two categories of antique bottles so we broke the auction up into three sessions to give our buyers time to r a i s e money A Dingens Napoleon Cocktail Bitters in amber is estimated at $7,000-$9,000.
An aqua barrel embossed Original Pocahontas Bitters, Y. Ferguson is estimated at $4,000-$7,000.
between each session,” said Jim Hagenbuch, the auction company’s owner. Although small, the collection houses a number of extremely rare and one-of-akind pieces. The top lot in the September offering is expected to be Lot 4, a Crows Celebrated Tonic Bitters (est. $15,000$25,000). “This is currently the only known The Crows Celebrated Tonic Bitters is estimated at $15,000$25,000. example,” exclaimed Hagenbuch. “Bob bought it in one of our 1995 auctions.” Lot 13, a Dingens Napoleon Cocktail Bitters in amber, is estimated at $7,000-$9,000. “This is from a Buffalo, N.Y., company, making it very popular with the Western New York State collectors,” said Hagenbuch. Lot 21, a Dr. Roback’s Stomach Bitters from Cincinnati, Ohio, is in an unusual olive green color (est. $6,000-$8,000). “Color is King,” said Hagenbuch. “Normally this bottle is found in amber, so when one in a radically different color is auctioned it always commands a premium price.” Lot 16, an aqua barrel embossed Original Pocahontas Bitters, Y. Ferguson, is estimated at $4,000-$7,000. “Bitters bottles in the form of a barrel are very popular with collectors of both bitters and whiskies. Bob loved the form; he had 60 examples in his collection,” said Hagenbuch. For additional information on this absentee auction, call 609-483-2683 or visit www.glswrk -auction.com. This Dr. Roback’s Stomach Bitters from Cincinnati, Ohio, is in an unusual olive green color (est. $6,000-$8,000).
Several works depicting the brilliant writer, inventor, politician, patriot, and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), who has been the subject of hundreds of portraits, are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in a focused exhibition. The most famous of these was painted by
Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802), Louis XVI’s official portraitist, after Franklin arrived in Paris in 1776 to seek French support for the American war of independence. Portraying Franklin in a red coat with a fur collar, and with an astonishingly elaborate frame decorated with his attributes, the oval painting was greatly admired, and Duplessis exhibited it at the 1779 Paris Salon. The painting, which has been in The Met collection for 85 years, will be a focal point of the installation “Benjamin Franklin: Portraits by Duplessis,” along with the preliminary pastel portrait of Franklin, probably a life study by Duplessis. The pastel, which is rarely exhibited and will be on loan from the New Continued on page 4
The oil-on-canvas by Joseph Siffred Duplessis (French, Carpentras 1725–1802 Versailles) of Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) dates to 1778. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931.
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