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British studio pottery features among TEFAF New York sales
16 May 2024Lucie Rie and other Modern masters delight buyers at recent fair
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Louis Comfort Tiffany gossip is talk of the town as painting emerges in New York auction
13 May 2024An oil on canvas of a German scene was probably on display at Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island home, sold in the 1940s.
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Klimt as a cheaper buy
13 May 2024Like all artists born in the 19th century, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) underwent a traditional academic training, studying at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna) from 1876-83.
MS Rau opens pop up in Colorado
13 May 2024New Orleans art, antiques and jewellery firm MS Rau is expanding and will open a second seasonal location in Colorado, on June 6.
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How Whistler became a prolific and powerful printmaker
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‘British School’ waterfall scene takes 60 times estimate after bidders identify artist
09 May 2024An early 19th century ‘British School’ watercolour painting of a waterfall raced away from a guide of $200-300 to bring $18,000 (£14,400) at an auction in Massachusetts this week.
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Group of 10 Egyptian antiquities restituted by Manhattan District Attorney
09 May 2024Another 10 antiquities from Egypt are being returned to the country following an intervention by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr.
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Getty Museum buys 17 drawings from private collection
07 May 2024The J Paul Getty Museum has acquired 17 drawings dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries from a private collection.
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Rocket-launching Star Wars action figure expected to make sky-high price at auction
07 May 2024An action figure that never was will be going under the hammer this month.
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Original cover artwork for Harry Potter estimated at record $600,000 comes to auction
02 May 2024The original cover watercolour for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by Thomas Taylor is coming to auction with the highest pre-sale estimate ever placed on an item of any Harry Potter-related work, according to Sotheby’s.
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Shahmoon family Giambologna bronzes sell at over 400 times estimate
01 May 2024Casts of two well-known Mannerist bronzes raced to 400 times their estimate at an online sale conducted by a New York auction house last month.
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New Zealand welcomes the Great White Fleet
29 April 2024An auction of traditional European decorative arts at Sotheby’s New York (20/10% buyer’s premium) on April 16 included this New Zealand Arts & Crafts presentation casket.
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Scarce medieval stained glass now sought after
29 April 2024The March 14 sale at Willow Auction House (25% buyer’s premium) in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, included a New York private collection of leaded and stained-glass panels.
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Flower power: British majolica hits the bigtime in US
29 April 2024A Copeland vase produced to mark 100 years of American Independence was among the highlights of the second tranche of the Flower collection of majolica.
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Massier Art Nouveau vase goes bats at auction
29 April 2024Abell’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Los Angeles on April 17 included a spectacular Art Nouveau vase from the workshop of French ceramicist Clement Massier.
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Chinese vase goes over the moon with 140-times estimate price
29 April 2024The stand-out performance in the March series of Asian art sales was a Qing monochrome clair-de-lune bottle vase offered by Freeman’s Hindman (26% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on March 24.
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Tureen dished out the delicacy of turtle soup
29 April 2024Turtle soup, which first became a delicacy on European tables with the emergence of the West Indies trade in the 18th century, was hugely popular among the elite of American society at the turn of the 20th century.
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Mercedes-Benz tools make $8000 on their own
29 April 2024As an original Mercedes-Benz 300SL now costs something north of $1m, it is perhaps no surprise to learn that original accessories associated with the Flügeltürer are eagerly sought.
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Scientist’s microscopes go under a bidding inspection
29 April 2024A collection of microscopes and other antique scientific instruments from the estate of Ohio scientist John A Davidson Jr (1939-2023) came for sale at Gray’s Auctioneers (20% buyer’s premium) on April 17.
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Light Ponti armchairs carry weighty auction value
29 April 2024Among the starring lots at the Wright (26% buyer’s premium) Design sale on March 28 was a pair of Gio Ponti lacquered wood, upholstery and brass Triennale armchairs, dating to 1951.
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