?> December 10, 2002 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • French Furniture at the MFA, Boston
    December 10, 2002

    Seldom has a suite of furniture boasted such an unusual provenance; this Eighteenth Century French high style bedroom set possesses not only a history of royal production, but also the brutal mob killing of its original owner.

  • The King May Have Lost His Head, but Cromwell Lost the Crown Jewels
    December 10, 2002

    Here is the colorful tale of the most infamous estate sale of all time: the dismantling of much of England's royal collections by Oliver Cromwell's Parliament after King Charles I was beheaded outside the Whitehall Banqueting Room in Westminster Yard in 1649.

  • Rare Engine Roars to New World Record at German Technical Antiques Auction
    December 10, 2002

    The early internal combustion engine, invented in 1870 by Nicolaus August Otto and Eugen Langen in Cologne, was sold after intense bidding to an overseas collector.

  • George Bellows' 'Gramercy Park' Tops American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Sale
    December 10, 2002

    The Christie’s sale realized the highest total for any various-owner American paintings auction in the firm’s history.

  • The Right Place, Right Time for Clocks
    December 10, 2002

    James McHenry acquired his collection primarily at the big estate auctions in Newport during the 30s and 40s, and indeed, the assemblage offered by Gustave White had some very rare clocks.

  • Sloan's Auction Galleries, Ltd., Files for Chapter 11
    December 10, 2002

    Colin Clarke, named acting president of the firm just three weeks ago, stated, "We are in the process of reorganizing our finances, raising further investments and we will go forward, definitely."

  • A Century of Style and Design, 1890-1990
    December 10, 2002

    Thought you'd never be a slave to off-white wall-to-wall carpet? Think again. Along with the legendary 1960s style queens Babe Paley, Slim Keith and C.Z. Guest, deep, thick, cream-colored carpet is back, nonchalantly covering floors at Sanford Smith's show.

  • The Crutcher Antiques Show
    December 10, 2002

    The mix for this show had always been good, but under the Jenkins influence dealers from a much larger geographic area are now exhibiting.

  • Splendid Pages
    December 10, 2002

    The Toledo Museum will open a major exhibition of The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books on February 14, which will run through May 11.

  • Portland Celebrates New Acquisitions
    December 10, 2002

    In anticipation of the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the Portland Museum of Art’s Nineteenth Century American collections, several new treasures were added.

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