Art Deco and 1920′s Hollywood glamour are the buzz words for fashion and interior design this spring as the remake of the movie “The Great Gatsby” hits the big screen. Black onyx, white diamonds, feathered …
Morgan Library & Museum displays illuminated luxury manuscript of The Saint John’s Bible
In 1998 Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a fully illuminated luxury manuscript of the Bible. Working out of his scriptorium in Monmouth, Wales, Jackson and a team of calligraphers and artists used traditional …
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Bonhams Hong Kong Offer Chinese Literati Objects at 2013 Spring Auctions
Bonhams Hong Kong is to offer Objects of Refined Virtue: A Private Collection of Scholar’s Objects, a single-owner collection of 45 fine and rare Chinese works of arts originally commissioned for the Imperial court and …
Frick Collection Announces Loans on View from Collector Horace Wood Brock
The Frick Collection announce the extended loan of several important decorative arts objects from Horace Wood Brock, one of America’s most remarkable collectors.
Over the last three decades, he has assembled an enviable collection of French …
Morgan Library & Museum continues Treasures from the Vault exhibition series
The Morgan Library & Museum continues its popular Treasures from the Vault exhibition series on May 7–October 6, 2013, with the presentation of thirty diverse works in its iconic 1906 McKim building.
The great library was …
Forbidden City furniture for auction at Bonhams Chinese Art sale
Historical pieces of Chinese furniture, which include a pair of gilt-lacquer cabinets and an Imperial gilt bronze zitan double gourd plaque are due to be sold in Bonhams Chinese Art sale on 16th May in …
World auction records set for glass at Bonhams
The Attack, an important cameo glass plaque by Thomas and George Woodall, smashed world records selling for £169,250 at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 1st May, as part of the British and European Glass Sale. …
Bonhams New York to auction studio glass from the collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana
Bonhams will auction Important Studio Glass from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana in the June 14 20th Century Decorative Arts auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. Comprised of 23 impressive works created by some …
Bowers Museum presents Gems of the Medici exhibition
Bowers Museum presents Gems of the Medici an exhibition on view through September 15, 2013.
Gems of the Medici, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating from …
Trelissick House yields Imperial Chinese Treasure for auction at Bonhams
Former home of Deputy Governor of the Bank of England boasts vase that is a triumph of Chinese expertise
The contents of Trelissick House, former home of Leonard Daneham Cunliffe, one of Britain’s most distinguished collectors, …
Georgia Museum of Art opens Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina
Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina, an exhibition on view May 4 to July 7, 2013.
Decorative arts historians coined the term “face …
Metropolitan Museum of Art to Return Sculptures to Cambodia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that it will return to the Kingdom of Cambodia two 10th-century Koh Ker stone statues of “Kneeling Attendants”—donated in separate stages to the Museum in the …
Diverse and Wonderful Objects Featured by The Curator’s Eye
The Curator’s Eye present, for private sale, a choice offering of imminently collectible items. As part of its continuous online exhibition of the finest art and antiques from distinguished dealers across the globe, The Curator’s …
Israel Museum Jerusalem Exhibits Gabriel Revelation Stone
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is showing the Gabriel Revelation Stone in an exhibition, I Am Gabriel complementing the ongoing large-scale exhibition Herod the Great, which explores other aspects of the period.
Considered the most important archaeological …
