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(Auction)Sotheby's 20th-Century Design Sale
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, aluminum Stoel, 27 3/8" x 19¾" x 19¾", $470,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a German dealer in the salesroom who said he was bidding for a private European collector. The handmade chair was produced from a single sheet of aluminum in 1960-62 by Gerrit Rietveld, Wim Rietveld, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fox and Grapes Dressing Table Acquired by PMA
"The Fox and the Grapes" dressing table, 1765-75, mahogany, yellow poplar, white cedar, yellow pine; brass; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Smithsonian Buys a Benjamin Franklin Suit
Photo courtesy Smithsonian National Museum of American History.The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is adding to its permanent collection a three-piece suit worn by Benjamin Franklin during his diplomatic trip to France in 1778, which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. The suit had been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History, Including the Civil War
From the collection of artist Bradford Edwards, 282 Vietnam War-era Zippo lighters were offered together. Passed during the sale, they sold after the auction for $35,250.Robert Linn with two assistants and a stereo-view camera, photographed by I.H. Bonsall, circa 1863, 10¾" x 8½" plus mount, labeled "Point Lookout, Lookout Mt./ ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design at Bonhams
Pair of Tiffany Studios leaded glass and faceted Favrile glass windows, 1899-1918, in the original iron frames with latch, 44 3/8" x 36", $21,250 (est. $4000/6000).Dale Chihuly, "Persian" series seven-piece set in emerald green with lemon lip wrap, 2000, blown glass, largest piece 10" high x 22" wide x 21" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design at Christie's
Phone bidders competed for this Isamu Noguchi unique fossil marble table designed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dretzin in 1948-49. The 13¼" high x 49" wide x 44" deep table sold for $2,882,500 (est. $800,000/1.2 million) to a phone bidder who also bought the Noguchi chess table. Christie's called the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-/21st-Century Design Sale
Frances Rocchi Saturday Evening Girls large (3½" x 12¼") bowl with roosters in cuerda seca on green ground, Boston, 1909, $96,875 (est. $17,500/22,500) on the phone. It is incised "Early to bed & early to rise makes a child healthy, wealthy & wise" and signed with the bowl shop mark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Bonhams
A Zuni jewelry set of a necklace and earrings made by Dan Simplicio and Leekya Deyuse sold for $12,500 (est. $6000/9000) to a dealer from the East Coast.A Chumash polychrome basket sold on the phone for $35,000 (est. $40,000/60,000). Bayuk collection.Bonhams, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams"If we'd had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont's Scrap Dealer Law Snares Antiques Dealers
by David HewettOn July 1 a new law, Act 167, regulating scrap metal processors, went into effect in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin signed the legislation on May 18. (Act 167 had been H.699 as it made its way through various committees in the house and senate.) It had been introduced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Celebrates Anniversaries
by Lita Solis-CohenWinterthur is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC), originally known as the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (WPEAC), and the 40th anniversary of the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) with an exhibition that highlights the accomplishments of ... (Read More)
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