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(Auction)Paintings, Orientalia, and One Spectacular Table
The Gillis Jacobsz van Hulsdonck oil on panel still life, 11" x 14", brought a hefty $97,750.This is the Italian micromosaic game table with an R. J. Horner base and a top composed of marble, slate, and semiprecious stones that sold for $92,000.A Patek Philippe miniature music box played a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in Philadelphia
by Lita Solis-CohenPut Philadelphia on your calendar for the last weekend in April. Come to the City of Brotherly Love and become immersed in art and antiques. Make it a long weekend or even a week to attend the auctions scheduled before and after the shows.Antiques Week in Philadelphia will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coffman's Antiques Returns
Joyce Coffman has opened a fresh version of Coffman's Antiques in Lenox, Massachusetts. She and her late husband, Don, were well known for their antiques shows in New Jersey and their popular shop in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, which closed in 2007.The new shop is located at 69 Church Street in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)50th Fishersville Antiques Expo Date Change
The 50th Antiques Expo in Fishersville, Virginia, will take place May 18-20 at Augusta Expoland. It is normally scheduled for the first weekend in May; Heritage Promotions moved the event to the third weekend because the Big Flea added a show that creates conflicts for a significant number of exhibitors ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Peabody Essex Museum"If there is any people on earth whose lives are more tangled up with museums than we are, God help them."—Paul Chaat Smith, Everything You Know about Indians Is WrongThéâtre de Cristal by Kent Monkman (b. 1965), Cree, 2007. Approximately ... (Read More)
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(Auction)February Jewelry Auctions
From a private New York collection and with a provenance of Sotheby & Co., London, April 21, 1969, this signed René Lalique 18k gold, plique-à-jour enamel, and opal pendant, 1903-04, is designed as two facing dragonflies applied with white, blue, teal, and very pale blue plique-à-jour enamel wings and enamel ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 58th Winter Antiques Show
Dower chest with an American eagle on it, $72,000 from James and Nancy Glazer.This red, white, and blue painted pine blanket chest, attributed to the Shenandoah Valley artist Johannes Spitler, has been off the market since it sold at Sotheby's auction of the M. Austin and Jill R. Fine collection ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Week Auction at Bonhams
The most expensive lot in the sale was a William IV circular extension table by London maker Johnstone & Jeanes & Co. Estimated at $30,000/50,000, it brought $80,500 from an English antiques dealer, bidding in house. Johnstone & Jeanes was established in London circa 1840 and exhibited at the 1851 ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Let's Make a Deal
by Steve ProffittOr not.When I was in private practice, it was not uncommon for me to be engaged by clients to work on various negotiations. These matters commonly involved claimants, clients, contractors, customers, and vendors. Sometimes my client was an auction company seeking to contract with a prospective seller for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)James Kochan's Portraits & Prospects at Arader Galleries
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenKochan offered a portrait of Captain William Preston Smith of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, painted circa 1800 in New Orleans by Jose Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (1750-1802). Smith accompanied General James Wilkinson to New Orleans to negotiate with the Spanish to keep New Orleans ... (Read More)
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