At its expanded premises in downtown Boston, Skinner provided fireworks in the form of a "gentleman's secretary" made by Edmund Johnson of Salem, Mass., between 1793 and 1811. ...
Approximately 120 bidders were on the floor, with additional left bids and phone bidders, in competition for the 339 lots offered. The auction grossed over $500,000....
The auction featured a two-generation collection from a South Windsor, Conn., farmhouse packed with Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century country furniture, samplers, paintings, pottery, china and accessories....
Looking for the epicenter of the antiques trade? Try Rhinebeck, where controlled pandemonium prevailed as management stayed just ahead of the surge that filled four buildings housing 185 dealers....
Culminating a four-year, $1.3 million restoration and redevelopment effort, the Antiquarian & Landmarks Society will reopen the 1782 Butler-McCook House & Garden on June 15. ...
The nearly life-size work of art, which was likely originally made for religious processions during Holy Week, was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is the only known sculpture...
The Field Museum showcases the largest, most ambitious exhibition ever put together on this fascinating subject, with more than 600 objects and nearly half a million individual pearls. ...
Shannon's, Connecticut's premier Fine Art Auction house, specializes in American and European Nineteenth and Twentieth Century paintings, drawings and sculpture. Shannon's holds their auctions...
Great jewels have inspired hot passions and dark deeds through the ages, so no one should be surprised that tiaras -- assembled from hundreds of important gems -- embody the triumph, excess and decline...