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JOANNE MOLINA, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
I'm interested in exploring how aesthetic theory and design/art criticism offer critical vocabularies for thinking about objects, architecture and space. What's important to me is supporting interesting people, projects and reading good books. As senior arts + culture editor at Interiors magazine, I worked with internationally renown chefs, designers and freelance writers to create essays on travel, cuisine, and the arts. I did my graduate work in philosophy and aesthetics and taught at DePaul University. I am a former co-editor with Mark Wallace of the language and post-language poetry journal, SITUATION and edited the chapbook series, Propjet.
ELIZABETH "Cappi" WILLIAMSON, SENIOR EDITOR
Cappi’s love for design began at Southern Accents magazine, which lead to a post at Interior Design magazine, as well as freelance writing assignments for magazines such as Interiors. She has also written on books, cultural events, and all things New York for web sites like Flavorpill and WhereTraveler. She is based in New York City and can be reached at cappi.williamson@gmail.com.
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JoAnn has been writing on art and design for twenty years. As a former contributing editor to Art & Antiques, she covered topics as diverse as artists books, Hokusai prints, and Emilie Galle vases. In addition to covering crafts, jewelry, collectibles, interior design, and architecture for Conde Nast Portfolio, Metropolis, Interiors, Philadelphia Home and Garden, American Style, Romantic Homes, Seven Arts and Kyoto Journal, her articles on travel, business and lifestyle subjects have appeared everywhere from National Geographic Traveler to Washington Post, from Woman's Day to A&E Monthly. She can be reached at jphila@aol.com and JOANNGRECO.COM

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Lot 7413
American cast bronze 'Doggie' doorknob
19th century
A similar model is in the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in St. Louis
Est. $2,000-3,000
Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields

Lot 7364
An American cast iron paint decorated Retriever
Possibly Hayward Bartlett and Co.
19th century
height 35½in; width 4ft 2in; depth 9in
Est. $4,000-6,000
Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields

Lot 7367
Two framed glazed ceramic tiles depicting dogs
Each height 9in; width 21in
Est. $300-500
Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields

A collection of nine eight plate tintypes framed as one
19th century
In a three by three grid with a walnut and gold painted frame with walnut cross pieces and gilt; each with an embossed gilt mat
height 17in; width 15½in
Est. $1,500-2,000
Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields

Lot 7359
Two Continental miniature micro mosaic picture frames
One with a photo of a Boston terrier, the other with a photo of a smooth coated fox terrier
height of the largest 1_in
Est. $150-250
Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields

The 'Best in Show' The Jennifer Berry Collection of Dog Related Fine & Decorative Arts
March 30, 2008

Bonhams & Butterfields, international fine arts auctioneers, is pleased to announce the March 30, 2008 Sunset Estate Auction featuring the Jennifer Berry Collection. The lady's offering boasts a truly exceptional and unique array of dog-related fine and decorative arts spanning the 19th century while celebrating varied breeds through photography, ceramics, sculpture and original works of art.

In conjunction with the sale of these works, Bonhams & Butterfields has invited the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spca-LA) to exhibit on-site during the auction preview to support the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement and intervention. In addition, Bonhams & Butterfields will make a donation to the independent, non-profit animal welfare organization on behalf of the firm and our animal loving clients.

"The Jennifer Berry collection truly celebrates one woman's love for animals and confirms that man's passion for dogs has existed for many generations. It is the firm's hope that the auction does justice to her lifetime's dedication to the art of the dog. Berry would be pleased to allow others to partake in the same enjoyment she has had assembling the collection," said Carolyn Mani, Director, Sunset Estate Sales.

Over the past five decades, Los Angeles collector and animal lover Jennifer Berry has amassed what is surely one of the largest collections of dog-related memorabilia in the world. Housed in her prestigious Brentwood Hills, California home, it has remained virtually unknown but to close family and a handful of collectors. The estate is remarkable not only in its number of items but in the variety of works Berry collected. Her stated goal was to have at least "one of everything." Ultimately, Berry and her husband catalogued over 1,900 entries in the
rare collection.

Within the highlights is photography, embodied by highly sought after daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. Almost all of images feature dogs sitting for a portrait. Considered highly desirable to both photography collectors as well as dog art lovers, these seminal images document not only the practice of early photographic portraiture, but accurately depict the state of various breeds in the 19th century.

March offerings from the Jennifer Berry Collection include a highly decorative 9 ½ x 7 ½-inch KPM lithophane image of a young girl and a bloodhound in a cast-iron frame, circa 1900 (est. $1,000/1,500); a stunning collection of English transferware in classic blue and white (est. $300/600) and a picturesque Waldoboro hooked rug depicting a black-and-tan terrier surrounded by a boarder of leaves and flowers, circa 1850-60 (est. $600/800). Other highlights from the collection include several lots of porcelain, glass, smoking articles, decorative arts and examples of metal and silverware.

Los Angeles preview events are scheduled for March 28-29, 2008 at Bonhams & Butterfields' Sunset gallery.

For more information please visit: Bonhams & Butterfields
-Joanne Molina

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