An exceedingly rare, museum-quality Dorflinger cranberry cut to clear glass ewer, 17 inches tall, soared to $75,000 at a sale featuring two major collections of American Brilliant Cut Glass, held November 18th by Woody Auction, online and at the Hilton Kansas City Airport. It was the final major cut glass auction of [Read More]
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When antique toy collectors gather and talk about the truly great comic character collections of the past, the names of a certain few trailblazers in the hobby invariably come up. However, it has been many years since a virtually unknown collection of fine, early comic character toys has appeared at auction, which [Read More]
EPPING, U.K. – In the world of fine jewels, provenance is second only to inherent quality. If a jewel has previously been owned by a celebrity – Elizabeth Taylor, for example – that connection becomes a permanent part of its history and allure. But an even greater level of cachet is added [Read More]
An Explosion of Silk Cocoons: This is the sought after artwork nowadays. A Flash of Silk Cocoons is an Artwork Luxury The Story behind the Silk Cocoon Artworks: Artist Ida Ivanka Kubler, a Chelsea College of Art postgraduate, found a bag with 400 silk butterfly cocoons in her grand-grand parent’s house. The [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – While entire libraries are devoted to cultures of the past, no book, no matter how scholarly, can explain the story of an ancient society quite as well as the objects and art its people left behind. “The tools, weapons, clothing, jewelry, implements and everyday wares of any given culture [Read More]
BOULDER, CO – Some of the world’s greatest private and institutional collections of antiquities and cultural art are represented in a 357-lot auction set for August 3 at Artemis Gallery in Boulder, Colorado. Acclaimed experts in their field, owners Bob and Teresa Dodge have left no stone unturned in bringing together a [Read More]
It is only through the art and surviving relics of ancient cultures that history can be relived in the present. “We connect to civilizations of the past when we hold and admire pieces they created and revered so long ago,” said Teresa Dodge, executive director of Artemis Gallery. Teresa and her husband/business [Read More]
LYNBROOK, N.Y. – Ocean liner memorabilia will take center stage at Weiss Auctions’ June 22nd sale, as a letter handwritten aboard the RMS Titanic on April 13, 1912, an original life ring from the SS Andrea Doria, and a glass clock given to first class passengers on the maiden voyage of the [Read More]
A Summer Antiques & Fine Art Auction featuring over 400 lots of original artwork, vintage lamps, American and European bronze sculptures, and a broad selection of fine art glass will be held Saturday, June 3rd, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the firm’s gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in [Read More]
Andy Warhol’s iconic “Liz” and Wayne Thiebaud’s “Three Cows” are among the signature works by American masters offered in Michaan’s Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations Auction to be held Friday, June 9. Landscapes of the American West by Maynard Dixon, Percy Gray, Michael Coleman and Charles Partridge Adams are also highlighted in [Read More]
French-made clocks will command center stage at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery on Saturday, May 20th, when the firm conducts an Antiques & Fine Art Auction where seven of the top 20 high-estimate lots are clocks made in France. The sale will be held in Fontaine’s gallery, located at 1485 West Housatonic Street in [Read More]
A large and impressive Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) bronze censer and a large Japanese mid-20th century gilt over red lacquer carved wood Kannon Buddha are expected top lots in the auction of an outstanding single-owner Asian art collection planned for Saturday, May 6th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery [Read More]
A three-day auction comprising nearly 1,800 lots in a wide range of collecting categories – to include mining collectibles, old bottles, postal history, Wells Fargo Express, gold and jewelry, coins and currency, toys, cowboy and Indian, firearms and more – will be held April 28-30 by Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, online [Read More]
With a timeline that starts in Ancient Egypt and progresses to the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, Artemis Gallery’s April 12 auction is a fascinating retrospective on how the world evolved to what it is today. Each of Artemis Gallery’s auctions reflects a deep respect for ancient civilizations of all geographic regions. [Read More]