LONDON — “The ceramics collections at the V&A are really unparalleled anywhere in the world,” says Reino Liefkes, senior curator of ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum. “They...
LARCHMONT, N.Y. — Clarke Auction’s 418-lot June 17 sale saw an array of quality offerings, from classic cars to jewelry and fine art, but none were as hot as a Chinese huanghuali wood two-drawer...
MONTBAZON and PARIS — Two Eighteenth Century Qianlong-period Chinese porcelain vases have made headlines in recent sales in France. The first, a 19¼-inch-tall blue and white moon vase, was sold...
This week’s Across The Block features a sharp list of paintings, a collection of straight razors and a dinosaur fossil so unique that it’s the first of its species ever found and does not even...
By James D. Balestrieri PHILADELPHIA – Foible is a great word. So is folly. Though they are somewhat out of fashion, even dated, the concepts they describe have, perhaps, never been more relevant....
Review and Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring CHADDS FORD, PENN. – The Memorial Day weekend is the official start to summer, but nothing says “Memorial Day weekend” in Pennsylvania’s...
Mark Schaffer, PhD, is a principal at A La Vieille Russie (ALVR), leading specialists in fine European and American antique jewelry, Fabergé, gold snuffboxes, objets de vertu and Russian decorative and fine...
Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach WINDSOR, CONN. – The rich are different, except for when they are not. That was the inescapable conclusion of Nadeau’s June 2 auction of residual property...
Review and Onsite Photos by R. Scudder Smith, Catalog Photos Courtesy RSL Auctions WHITEHOUSE STATION N.J. – It was the early 1980s when Tom Sage spotted an ad in the Allentown newspaper announcing...
Review and Onsite Photos by R. Scudder Smith, Catalog Photos Courtesy RSL Auctions WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. – It was about 40 years ago that Dr Gregory Alan Zemenick, better known as Dr Z, took on a new interest...
Review and Photos by W.A. Demers RHINEBECK, N.Y. – It used to be that four buildings at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds were packed to the gills with antiques, fine art and collectibles for visitors...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack PLAINFIELD, N.H. – It was as close to an old-fashioned auction as you can get these days. As he seems to do regularly, W.A. “Bill” Smith filled...