"We are privileged to be handling this kind of material," said auctioneer Phil Nissley. The sale included more than 130 pieces of spatterware china and design spatter, Leeds soft paste china,...
The Greenwich Civic Center bubbled over with enthusiasm for Shannon's spring art auction, which ended up breaking six world records - more depending on how you want to count them - to become the top-grossing...
Garnering the highest bid of the auction was a pair of Meissen pate-sur-pate, rose-ground parcel-gilt porcelain snake-handled covered urns, Nineteenth Century, bringing $33,000 from a dealer-collector....
The foundation, with assets of approximately $4 billion, awards grants on a selective basis to institutions in higher education; museums and art conservation; performing arts; population; conservation...
"Although I have very much enjoyed my tenure with Phillips, I have decided that the time has come for me to realize my ambition to start a business of my own," he commented. ...
The company's editor-in-chief, Peter Hastings Falk, announces that all 65,000 biographies in his three-volume "Who Was Who in American Art" are now accessible online. "The Internet...
The Renaissance is an age that continues to fascinate modern audiences, but this spring visitors to the gallery can experience it in person, by coming face to face with the actual art and artifacts of that...
Middleton Manigault's contributions to the history of the movement have been largely overlooked because of his early death, his reclusive lifestyle and the undocumented dispersal of much of his work....
Representational in subject and based technically on the work of the great Dutch still life painters, Jeremiah Stermer's still lifes have a certain surprise and tension that distinguishes his paintings...
A closed chapter or not, modernism still plays a central role in the contemporary discussion of architecture and design. Young artists, architects, and designers who are active today all relate in one way or another...
The circular seal box, engraved with the royal seal of King George III, included a royal document on parchment empowering one Phinius Bond with "Full Power" to negotiate parts of the John Jay Treaty...
More than 1,200 lots were offered over three days of auctions involving multiple specialty departments, including the Antique Arms and Armor, Arts of the West and Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Tribal...