Review by R. Scudder Smith, Catalog Photos Courtesy Morphy Auctions DENVER, PENN. – Pat and Jim Kelley are collectors of many things, such as art glass, fine linens and fabrics, and things that caught...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara CHANTILLY, VA. – D’Amore Promotions conducted another of its very popular DC Big Flea & Antiques Shows at the Dulles Expo on April 28 and 29, filling...
Review and Onsite Photos by Greg Smith ONLINE – “Lot-wise, this was our biggest sale in two years,” said Jack DeStories, auctioneer at Fairfield Auction, as he surveyed his 700-lot May 23 sale....
DALLAS — The top lot from Heritage Auctions’ first European comic art auction on June 2, which was simulcast to Heritage Auctions Europe in IJsselstein, the Netherlands, was a rarely seen set of original...
By Laura Beach BOSTON – The brilliant new book Rather Elegant Than Showy: The Classical Furniture of Isaac Vose by Robert D. Mussey Jr and Clark Pearce opens with a chapter on the history of scholarship...
Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries is on show in this week’s Across The Block, joining hands with Japanese cloissoné-enamel, a New York Windsor chair, an Assyrian bas-relief and more....
Eight cultural institutions are partnering to celebrate the varied and surprising role of fashion in Massachusetts. Building on the highly successful collaboration that produced Four Centuries of Massachusetts...
By Laura Beach LITCHFIELD, CONN. – Ann Finn and her late husband, Joel, were what every collecting couple should be. Over a period of decades, they assembled a highly focused gathering of furniture...
Review and Photos by Tom O’Hara MILFORD, N.H. – Jack Donigian continued his half-day market at Hampshire Hills Athletic Club on May 6, immediately prior to the spring edition of Brimfield with...
Jennifer L. Mass is the Andrew W. Mellon professor of cultural heritage science at Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture. She is also president of Scientific Analysis...
Review and Photos by Laura Beach, W.A. Demers, Madelia Hickman Ring and Tom O’Hara BRIMFIELD, MASS. – Parking spaces were again at a premium during Brimfield’s spring edition, May 8-12,...