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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Society Presents Awards and Prize
The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. (DAS) recognized scholarly works produced in 2023 by presenting its Charles F. Montgomery Prize and Award and Robert C. Smith Award on November 12 at the Explorers Club in New York City. Recipients were chosen after careful review of numerous worthy and laudable publications submitted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jitterbugs V Dances to the Top at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its first suite of 2025 sales the week of February 10 to 14. The online-only sales consisted of ten targeted groupings offering a total of 1395 lots. A separate catalog was published for each sale. Over the week ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, February 20205
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Historical and Native American Antiques
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Esoteric might be one word to describe Fred Giampietro’s New England Auctions’ February 13 sale in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery. Offerings fell into various collecting categories, including Americana, folk art, military, medical, scientific, Native American, and woodworking.
The double-sided painted wood trade sign, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tankard with Unusual Characteristic Given to MFA
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, resident Thomas E. Linzee Jr. has donated an 18th-century silver tankard with an unusual characteristic to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The tankard, which descended in Linzee’s family over the last 260-plus years, was made in the 1750s by Boston silversmith Samuel Minott (1732-1803). The form conforms to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painted with Silk at the DIA
Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) opened on December 13 and continues through June 15. It is mostly a loan exhibition of 69 samplers and pictorial embroideries and memorials from three private collections. One painting and two early ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Silver and Modern Pottery Draw Bidders
Andrews & Andrews, Northport, Maine
On a frosty February 8 the Blue Goose Center in Northport, Maine, was full of browsers, bidders, and buyers. The occasion was an approximately 300-lot auction conducted by Daniel and Elsie Andrews, longtime Maine auctioneers who call their business Andrews & Andrews. Elsie serves as vice-chair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadiana in Demand
Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd., New Hamburg, Ontario
Photos courtesy Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd.
All prices in U.S. dollars
Quebec arbalète (crossbow) butternut commode, 32" x 46" x 24", with the unusual feature of a serpentine paneled door on each side and scrolled brackets on the front posts, sold for $49,656 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2025 Failey Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced seven 2025 Dean F. Failey Grant recipients: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, for the exhibition Silver & Ceremony from Southern Asia, 1850-1910; Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts, for the exhibition Body by Design: Fashionable Silhouettes; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, for quilt conservation; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Boston Collects” at Doyle
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers’ February 7 “Boston Collects” auction in Boston, Massachusetts, sold fine art and decorations with connections to the Boston area by origin, creator, and collection. Silver and artwork pleased bidders enough to boost many of the lots’ ... (Read More)
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