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(Fragment)A Million-Dollar Snuff Bottle
A Beijing enamel European-subject snuff bottle, Imperial, palace workshops, 1736-60, Qianlong blue-enamel mark and of the period, sold forHK$9,280,000 (approximately US$1,191,580).A 4.22 cm high (approximately 1.66") Chinese snuff bottle made for the Imperial Court of 18th-century China sold for HK$9,280,000 (approximately US$1,191,580, including buyer's premium) at Bonhams Hong Kong on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tools Get Hammered Down
The top lot of the auction was a Type 1 Miller patent plow plane by Stanley that sold for $8360.Another item that exceeded the estimate, this handled adjustable cabinet scraper, with dual brass adjustment arms and a cast-iron frame, finished at $1980 (est. $600/1200). Martin J. Donnelly photo.A simple hammer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bleecker Street Antiques Shop Turns Out Its Lights
One of the sale's top lots, a pair of 291/2" tall Chinese Famille Verte with black ground vases, fetched $3540 on theInternet (est. $1500/2000). Grogan photo.Three Chinese porcelain gilt-decorated powder blue vases sold to another Internet bidder for $2950 (est. $300/500). A phone bidder bought a Chinese oxblood vase-form lamp ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Keno Auctions' Inaugural Sale
There were two bidders in the salesroom and two on the phones for the Beekman diminutive mahogany chest, 35" wide, with rococo carving on the feet, skirt, and the edge of its top, stop fluting on the canted corners, and some repairs to the rear feet. Estimated at $200,000/600,000 and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)McInnis Sale to Be Held at Cliff House
Auctioneer John McInnis is going on the road this summer for a two-day sale. McInnis, who owns an auction gallery in Amesbury, Massachusetts, has rented the facility at the Cliff House Resort & Spa in Ogunquit, Maine, for a July 16 and 17 auction."I wanted to do something different in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair
Business was brisk at the booth of Gladstone Jones, Philadelphia, which was filled with botanical prints.We snapped a photo of London seller Robert Bloch in his booth. The French 19th-century drapery table is $6600. Behind it, the French bistro mirror measures 59" x 74" and is $6500. The mid-19th-century French ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Valued at $4000 but sold for just over $1 million at Bonhams in April, will this portrait turn out to be a real Rubens?Everyone (Well, Almost) Loves a SleeperWhen the lawyers get involved, when salesrooms are challenged over their failure to get the best for their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art Auction
Yavapai Apache figural olla, circa 1900, with 53 figures including dogs, deer, and people plus intricate banded motifs of triangles, 201/2" high x 181/2" diameter, with stitch loss around the shoulder and minimal stitch loss on the body, $41,125.Smoke Signal by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 25" ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"into your hands..."
This watercolor on ivory, mounted as a brooch, depicts Ellen Louisa Tucker (1811-1831), firstwife of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The cashmere shawl in the background came to the museum with this note: "This shawl came from Aunt Mary's 252 Beacon Street Boston-and must be the shawl which belonged to the first ... (Read More)
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(Feature)How Do You Price a Promise When a $31 Million Rothko Is Involved?
by David Hewett
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961, sold for $31,442,500 at Sotheby's on May 12.
How do you keep secret a link in the chain of provenance of a major artwork that is to be sold at auction? Does ... (Read More)
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