MAMARONECK, N.Y. – A Chinese white jade figure of Buddha went over nine times its estimate for $75,000 at Shapiro Auctions’ March 21-22 sale. The white jade figure of Buddha Shakyamuni sat on a gilt-bronze...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It was that sort of existential crisis facing organizers and participants...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Alderfer Auction HATFIELD, PENN. – On March 11 Alderfer Auction conducted a sale of Twentieth Century Art & Design; it was followed the next day by a “Collector’s...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara ATLANTA – Scott Antiques Market, Atlanta, held firm for the four-day event, March 12-15, hosting several thousand exhibitors and shoppers. “It was evident...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Additional Photos Courtesy CRN Auctions CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – Antiques dealers and collectors, judging by the “live” crowd at CRN’s March...
Notable sales detailed in our March 27, 2020 issue include typewriters used by authors Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway in an online sale by University Archives. Hemingway’s Royal typewriter, used...
Nineteenth Century Shenandoah Valley potter Emanuel Suter is an artisan worth knowing. The top end of his market is governed by an $88,250 result for a stoneware honey or sugar pot decorated with a cobalt...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier Ed note: due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the Smithsonian American Art Museum has closed and this exhibition will open at a future date, as yet to be determined. WASHINGTON...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Winfield Auction Galleries NORTH BIG FLATS, N.Y. – On Saturday, March 7, Winfield Auction Galleries conducted its fourth-ever online-only auction,...
Review by Anne Kugielsky, Photos Courtesy Heritage Auctions DALLAS – When Heritage Auctions announced it would be offering the last known “Play Station” prototype developed by Nintendo...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Santa Fe Art Auction SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico art and artifacts spoke to Joseph Pytka, known for directing TV commercials and Michael Jordan in “Space...
TOWSON, MD. – The pinnacle of Alex Cooper Auctioneer’s March 14 sale was a Tibetan gilt-bronze seated Buddha that achieved the divine price of $1.98 million, well beyond its $20/30,000 estimate....