The Tourism Department of the Greene County Partnership today announced that the Sixth Annual Antique Appraisal Fair and Antique Show will be held Saturday, February 19th, at Greeneville High School on Tusculum Boulevard from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is FREE. As an added attraction this year, on Friday February 18th, [Read More]
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Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture and Decorative Arts in two sessions on Friday, January 7th and Saturday, January 8th in its Boston gallery. The first of four European Furniture and Decorative Arts sales Skinner will host in 2011, this sale will offer more than 1,000 lots of material. [Read More]
A selection of intricate and varied Chess sets from around the world will be offered by Bonhams in the Chess, Games and Cards sale taking place on January 17th 2011 at Bonhams Knightsbridge. From Europe a very rare, 300yr old south German, ivory and ebony figural chess set is estimated to sell [Read More]
Bonhams announce the 20th Century Decorative Arts sale on December 14, 2010. The auction will begin at 1 p.m. at the Bonhams gallery located at 580 Madison Avenue at 56th Street. Frank Maraschiello, Vice President and Director, 20th Century Arts, said, “It is a pleasure for Bonhams to continue to sell works [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. announced that its 20th Century Furniture & Decorative arts auction will be held in its Boston gallery on December 18th, just in time for last minute holiday shopping. The auction features a large selection of modern artwork including paintings, sculpture, and wall hangings, modern furniture, and furniture, silver and art [Read More]
The finest collectible 1909-O Indian half eagle, MS66 PCGS, the Mitchelson-Clapp-Eliasberg-Price example – designated by legendary numismatist David Akers as “The Coin” – will provide some New Year’s fireworks on Thursday, Jan 6, 2011, when it comes up for auction as part of Heritage’s Tampa FUN Platinum Night U.S. Coin Auction. This [Read More]
As the only international auction house to have dedicated glass and paperweight sales, Bonhams is proud to announce the auction of The Albert Hartshorne Collection of Glass as part of its Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights auction on Wednesday 15th December in New Bond Street, London. Hartshorne is primarily known [Read More]
On the site where the Tannery Yard condominiums stand today, the influential Wilkes Street Pottery operated from 1813-1877. The relationship between the Wilkes Street Pottery, famous for manufacturing Alexandria stoneware, and Hugh Smith & Company, a King Street retailer, was a driving force in Alexandria’s economy during the early half of the [Read More]
A collection of furniture, which was bought for the first location of the European Commission in the UK, Kensington Palace Gardens, in 1957, is to be sold at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, as part of its monthly Period Design sale on 7 December 2010. The furniture moved from Kensington Palace Gardens into 8 Storey’s [Read More]
With the triumphant Grand Opening of its Park Avenue offices in New York, and a very successful inaugural Illustration Art Auction under its belt in October, Heritage Auctions will hold a suite of five auctions – American Indian Art, Vintage & Contemporary Photography, Timepieces, Lalique, Art Glass, & Perfume Bottles and Pre-Columbian [Read More]
Around 250 lots of fine clocks, estate jewelry and other small items that would make excellent holiday presents will be sold in an online-only auction (already online) slated to end Friday, Dec. 10, by Gordon S. Converse & Co. The auction is already online and all lots may be viewed at the [Read More]
Sotheby’s in London have sold a rare and magnificent Yuan Dynasty Blue and White ‘Peony’ Jar, Guan £2.6 million/$4.1 million, more than six times pre-sale expectations (estimate: £400,000-600,000), in the biannual Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sale. Blue and white wares are undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions to the [Read More]
A stunning piece of China’s Imperial history – a seal personally commissioned and used by the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) – sold for £2,708,000 at Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 11th in London. The perfect four centimetre square jade seal bearing the inscription ‘Zi Qiang Bu Xi’, (‘Self-Strengthening Never Ceases’) [Read More]
A very rare pair of French silver-mounted flintlock pistols by Napoleon’s gunmaker, Boutet, once in the collection of Field Marshall Sir Frances Festing, will be offered in Bonhams Fine Antique Arms and Armour sale in Knightsbridge on Wednesday, 24th November. The pair is estimated to fetch between £50,000 to £75,000. The pistols, [Read More]