Art Antiques London 2011 is now open until 15 June 2011 at Albert Memorial West Lawn, Kensington Gardens, London (opposite The Royal Albert Hall) Art Antiques London takes place in a purpose-built pavillion in Kensington Gardens opposite the Royal Albert Hall and close to the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. [Read More]
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OnlineGalleries.com have just completed developing their first App for an antiques dealer – Bedfordshire based S&S Timms Antiques. This easy-to-use App is now available to download free-of-charge on your Apple device from the App store. S&S Timms Antiques are showing this new App on their stand (number D24) at the Olympia International [Read More]
Christie’s Spring 2011 Chinese Ceramics Works of Art Sale in Hong Kong achieved a combined total of HK$829,712,250/US$106,700,995 from its four sales on 1 June, 2011. The top lot of the day was a fine and extremely rare falangcai ‘kui dragons’ bowl, Qianlong blue enamel four-character mark and of the period (1736-1795) [Read More]
Bonhams 20th Century Decorative Arts auction boasts 348 lots from all the collecting fields—Arts & Crafts to Contemporary Studio Works of Art. The sale will take place in New York on Tuesday June 7th. Highlights of the Arts & Crafts and Tiffany section of the sale include a rare Tiffany & Co. [Read More]
Summer begins with a wealth of Chinese art at Bonhams & Butterfields, with fine objects in every collecting category going on the auction block June 21 at 10 a.m. A rare carved red, lacquer vase, Qianlong, discovered in an East Coast private collection, is a star lot and cover of the catalogue [Read More]
Richard Watkins has rejoined the Stanley Gibbons Group plc as Head of Auctions. Richard has wide ranging experience at a senior level in both the philatelic dealing and auction worlds. He was with Stanley Gibbons for nearly 20 years, the last six as Philatelic Director. He left in 1996 to join Christie’s [Read More]
Christie’s announces the sale of Antiquities on June 9, which will offer over 200 lots with a magnificent selection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern works of art. Leading the sale is the de Clercq Pan and Hermaphrodite, a Roman marble group that depicts a struggle between the goat-legged god Pan [Read More]
Cranfield and Bonhams have inaugurated a joint forensic science research project to bring authentication techniques into the new millennium. The new Cranfield/Bonhams collaboration combines major advances in the ability to identify ever-smaller proportions of trace elements, with essentially non-invasive sampling, associated with identifying a coherent range of authentic objects to provide the [Read More]
A very rare Schrezheim porcelain snuff box in the form of a pug dog is expected to fetch £12,000-18,000 when it goes up for auction at Bonhams, New Bond Street on 5th July in the sale of the Helmut Joseph Collection of Porcelain Snuff Boxes. Around 1740, a series of pug related [Read More]
The Art Fair Company, which presents the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fairs and the Art and Antique Dealers League Spring Show NYC, will launch The Metropolitan Art Show: Art & Antiques @ The Pavilion, a new art and antique fair which replaces The American Antiques Show (TAAS), formerly organized by the [Read More]
On Sunday, May 29th over 600 dealers from more than 7 different states (from New York to Montana ) will feature “Everything Chic, Cheap, Unique & Vintage” including a variety of antiques, collectibles and home furnishings for sale at the “Super Sunday Antique Sale ” held at Long Beach Veterans Stadium. Spread [Read More]
A stunning diamond Fabergé bracelet is one of the highlights of the Russian Sale, taking place at Bonhams on 8th June at New Bond Street. The bracelet is estimated to sell for £70,000 – 100,000. Created by senior Fabergé workmaster August Holmström circa 1900, the flexible bracelet is composed of twelve diamond-set [Read More]
Sotheby’s African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art auctions in New York brought a combined total of $21,846,692, well over the high estimate (total est. $8.3/12.6 million).* The single owner sale of the Robert Rubin Collection of African Art fetched $11,742,188, many multiples of the pre-sale estimate (est. $2.5/3.9 million) and was 94% sold-by-lot. [Read More]
Fine antiques and collectibles abound at the St. Louis Antique Festival held twice yearly at the Belle Clair Fairgrounds in Belleville, Illinois. The fairgrounds have been home to the festival for over 20 years with a spring and a fall show most years. If you’reinterested in fine quality antiques, this is a [Read More]