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April 3, 2012The catalog showed the high end of its estimate at a worthy $125,000 for a soda fountain from 1893. But in an auction, anything can happen. And it did. When bidding stopped, the price was $4.5 million.
April 3, 2012R.I. Internet Consignment & Sales struck gold with its online auction Wednesday, March 28. Its offering of a folding map from 1848 titled ⁇old Region†and printed in 1848, the same year that...
April 3, 2012Spanning the arc from tiaras to tombstones, artist Marie Zimmermann oeuvre has not been widely recognized †until now. Unconventional, well beyond classification, and prodigiously talented, designer...
April 3, 2012Three Twentieth Century paintings by Qi Baishi brought an impressive $1,629,360 at Kaminski Auctions†March 30″1 sale. The three were each dedicated to the Emperor Yu San, and came from the collection...
April 3, 2012Grand old Newport cottages filled to the gunwales with generations of untouched antique treasures are more and more things of the past. Many have been broken into condominiums, been turned over to institutions...
April 3, 2012For astute paper hounds, Ephemera 32 was a veritable candy store, but instead of sugary sweets, one found here piles, bins and stacks of paper in all shapes and sizes.
April 3, 2012Four US museums will be able to study or conserve key works in their collection after being awarded a grant through Bank of America Art Conservation Project. In all, 20 museums across the globe...
April 3, 2012For the ancient Chinese, life in the afterworld was as important as one existence on earth. For this reason, the dead were laid to rest in tombs provisioned with mingqi, or pirit articles,†for...
April 3, 2012For the first time, a selection of paintings and tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by such Renaissance and baroque masters as Sandro Botticelli, Il Parmigianino, Lorenzo Monaco,...
April 3, 2012Each year Tony Fusco and Bob Four tweak their AD 20/21 show and each year the results are impressive. The gala preview was crowded; the overall gate was up and exhibitors were more than pleased with...
March 27, 2012Art Deco linear symmetry is iconic; its appeal is international. Although it does not immediately conjure an association with Japanese decorative arts, Art Deco message of Modernism and style...
March 27, 2012The 39th Connecticut Spring Antiques Show (Hartford) opened to an enthusiastic crowd on March 10 at its new location on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition, more commonly known as the Big E show.
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