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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design Sales at Sotheby's
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Ventru sideboard, model 2019 AR, 2126 NR. This is one of a pair executed in September 1929 of Macassar ebony veneer over oak, with ivory marquetry and silvered bronze feet. The 33¼" x 33¼" x 20" sideboard is branded "Ruhlmann" and with the "A" atelier mark. Bidding opened ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Syd Levethan's Longridge Collection
A 16½" diameter London delft polychrome dish, dated 1638, Southwark, Pickleherring Quay or Montague Close, the underside painted in blue with the initials "RI," perhaps for Richard Irons, sold for $218,500 (est. $120,000/180,000) to a collector on the phone and became the most expensive piece of delft in the Longridge ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stella Pier Show Takes the Chill Out
Harry and Ginny’s Antiques, Brookhaven, New York, gave a French accent to its booth with a display of French enamelware from 1900 to 1940 that included salt holders, match safes, and utensil holders. (Sel is the French word for salt; allumettes means matches). The holders were about $200 each. “Prices ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Antiques Show
Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, offered a collection of firefighting equipment models from the large collection deaccessioned by the Smithsonian at Pook & Pook last fall. A hand-drawn ladder truck was $10,500, and a hose reel was $9500. The painted steam train below, 1890-1900, was $7800. It is standing on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Trail Blazers
EditorialWill expanding an Antiques Trail in Connecticut help dealers in the Nutmeg State? State Senator Robert Kane thinks so. The Republican, who represents the 32nd District, has sponsored legislation to require the Commission on Culture & Tourism to investigate how establishing antiques trails could benefit the economy and tourism.We say ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auction to Benefit the National Numismatic Collection
In January 2012, Heritage Auctions will host a special auction at the Florida United Numismatist (FUN) convention aimed at establishing a $1 million endowment for the National Numismatic Collection (NNC), considered one of the finest collections of rare U.S. coins in existence. The collection is housed at the Smithsonian's National ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sales at Phillips
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933), rare Elephant armchair, circa 1926, leather, Macassar ebony, and veneered wood, branded "Ruhlmann" on the underside of the frame. The 35½" high chair is overstuffed furniture as sculpture and sold for $290,500 (est. $180,000/240,000) to Jaewoong Chung of Vintage 20, New York City, and Kukje Gallery, Seoul, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Sale Hits $2.2 Million
A rare Marblehead Pottery vase by Arthur Hennessey and Sarah Tutt, circa 1910, sold for $86,250.A 10¾" x 17" watercolor of a sailboat in an urban harbor by Modernist innovator John Marin (1870-1953), signed and dated lower right "Marin 32," sold solidly within estimate for $43,125.A full-body copper horse and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: <[email protected]>
What better way to open up the way to this month’s selection than with the door knocker illustrated in the piece that follows—although the Pigatti family’s splendiferous knocker does come from an old, December sale.
There are of course lots from 2011 sales in this selection, but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VMFA African Art Galleries Reopened
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' newly expanded African art galleries reopened to the public on February 12. The collection will be housed in two galleries.The expansion was made possible by a grant of $1 million from the Dominion Foundation, the charitable arm of Dominion Resources, and the galleries will ... (Read More)
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