Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Ancient Objects PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The almighty sabercat chewed its way to the top of the block for Ancient Objects in the firm’s May 8 online sale. Two fossilized...
Review by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy Paul McInnis Auctioneers HAMPTON, N.H. – Paul McInnis, whose brother John and sister Maureen Boyd are also auctioneers, holds a New Hampshire auctioneers...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Show Dealers BRONX, N.Y., & ONLINE – This year the New York Botanical Garden’s always anticipated antique garden furniture fair was presented virtually...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Doyle’s NEW YORK CITY – Doyle offered nearly 300 lots of American paintings, furniture and decorative arts on May 5 in a sale that brought...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Hartzell’s Auction Gallery BANGOR, PENN. – No doubt you’ve heard that old analogy of the buggy whip as being “an obscurity sitting on an anachronism.”...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS – Heritage Auctions’ director of American Art, Aviva Lehmann, described the May 7 American Art sale as “a...
By Karla Klein Albertson CORNING, N.Y. – When historians list the precious materials valued in the past, we find the usual candidates – gold and silver, perhaps exotic silks and embroidery....
Notable lots that share the spotlight in our May 28, 2021 issue lead with Fernando Zobel De Ayala’s “Primavera, Jucar,” an oil on linen, that topped Nadeau’s sale. At Cohasco, bidders read...
Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) recently announced that Ellen Taviano has been named the new director of retail operations and gift shops, an appointment that retained retail operations after the division...
CINCINNATI, OHIO – A 17-inch-high vase by Carl Schmidt for Rookwood Pottery sold for $62,500 at Treadway Gallery’s May 16 sale. The 1911 “Iris” vase featured an image of that flower...
ALLENTOWN, PENN. – The Baum School of Art’s 36th Annual Art Auction, May 9-15, was conducted online once again this year. Although the bidding itself took place virtually, the David E. Rodale...
DALLAS – Bringing more than four times its estimate and fetching $62,250 was an oval solferino purple-banded porcelain platter centering a wing-spread eagle grasping an olive branch and sheaf of arrows...