A rare and important gilt bronze Tibetan Buddha blasted through its $200-$300 pre-sale estimate to finish at a staggering $200,000 in an online Fine Estates Auction held March 24th by Briggs Auction, Inc. The piece, pulled from a Main Line, Pennsylvania estate, generated auction fever from almost the moment it was posted [Read More]
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A new exhibition at the British Museum showcases the resilience and creativity of 19th-century China. The Citi exhibition China’s hidden century will illuminate a pivotal period in China’s history – one that forms a crucial bridge to the modern nation the country is today. Visitors will experience the visual richness of this [Read More]
Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC is to host five-day auctions featuring thousands of highly collectible items in a rainbow of categories, but the firm will end 2021 with a tidy, three-day affair, December 17th-19th, online and in the Reno gallery, boasting over 1,900 lots of rare books, art, mining, numismatics, stock certificates, [Read More]
Items from the living estate of Mr. Richard S. Ravenal – the now long-retired purveyor of Asian art and antiques and former owner of Asian Gallery in New York City – will headline a two-session auction planned for Saturday, October 2nd, by EstateOfMind, online and live in the Middletown gallery at 195 [Read More]
Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) is extending Maya: The Exhibition’s first stop in the United States. The blockbuster exhibition featuring over 300 original objects immerses guests in a sophisticated civilization buried in the heart of the rainforest. Maya: The Exhibition has been extended through April 4, 2021. The exhibition showcases over 300 original [Read More]
A Roman marble head of a woman from the Julio-Claudian Period (circa early 1st Century BC), a fantastic Roman marble funerary stele (standing slab of stone with hieroglyphic carving or sculptured design) from the 2nd or 3rd Century AD, and a beautiful circa 500-460 BC Greek black-figure lekythos (painted pottery vessel) are [Read More]
A Graeco-Roman mummified cat dating from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD, a Roman marble head of a woman from the later 4th century AD, and a massive circa 3rd-1st century BC Hellenistic bronze trident are a few highlight lots in Ancient Resource Auctions’ online-only Exceptional Summer Antiquities Discovery [Read More]
NEW YORK – Throckmorton Fine Art (throckmorton-nyc.com) will feature an important collection of forty-one pre-Columbian masks from the personal collection of Spencer Throckmorton from May 23 to June 22 at its New York gallery. “Faces For Eternity” – Small Masks from Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica dates to Spencer Throckmorton’s first purchase in 1971. Over [Read More]
NEW YORK – The 2019 Asia show at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York – titled “Spirit and Soul – Hongshan Jades 4700-2500 BCE” (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) features fifty rare jade carvings from the Hongshan societies of northeastern China, Spencer Throckmorton has announced. On view from February 28 through March 24, this important collection [Read More]
NEW YORK Nov 12, 2018 – THROCKMORTON FINE ART (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is presenting a specially curated selection of pre-Columbian artifacts, archaic Chinese Jade and ceramics, Tribal art and Vintage photography at the 65th Annual Winter Show (formerly titled Winter Antiques Show). This is the gallery’s 33rd year participating in the renowned New York [Read More]
NEW YORK – THROCKMORTON FINE ART (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is presenting a selection of pre-Columbian and Chinese artifacts at THE AADLA FINE ART & ANTIQUES show in New York, from October 26 – 29. With participation by two dozen leading dealers, the annual ART & ANTIQUE DEALERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA event will host renowned [Read More]
NEW YORK – Buddhist sculpture from China dating from the Sixth to Ninth centuries is the focus of the Spring 2018 Asian show at Throckmorton Fine Art (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) in New York. Spencer Throckmorton says the collection of Buddhist images to be offered March 1 to April 28, 2018 “Represents Sui to Tang, [Read More]
Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans is an exhibition which presents A RESTORATION, an immersive video by artist Elizabeth Price in which images drawn largely from Evans’s excavation, on Crete, of the Bronze Age culture of the Minoans are transformed into a work of art for the digital age. [Read More]
NEW YORK – THROCKMORTON FINE ART (www.throckmorton-nyc.com) is presenting a curated selection of pre-Columbian artifacts at the 64th Annual Winter Antiques Show. This is the gallery’s 32nd year participating in the renowned New York show at the Park Avenue (67th Street) Armory — this year being staged from January 19 – January [Read More]