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(Auction)Teapot by Paul Revere Jr. Brings $233,000
Each of these Martelé silver figural ewers, marked for Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1912, in baluster form, is decorated with fluid leaves and waves. One is chased with Poseidon holding his trident and has a cast merman-form handle; the other is chased with a mermaid holding a clamshell with pearls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Wunsch Award, Now a January Tradition, Honors Arnold Lehman and Chipstone
Arnold Lehman is shown accepting the Wunsch award.
Jonathan Prown, director of Chipstone.
Peter Wunsch (left) and Christie’s John Hays.
Christie’s hosted the third annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 21, honoring Arnold L. Lehman, the retiring director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fraktur: Four Exhibitions, a Catalog, and a Conference
Drawing of a woman on horseback, circa 1775, attributed to the Sussel-Washington Artist (active 1760-85). Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 8" x 6 3/8". Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson.
Drawing of Adam and Eve, 1834-35, attributed to Samuel Gottschall (1808-1898). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8" × ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 36½" x 49½" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby’s on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farnsworth Extends Shaker Exhibition
Due to the popularity of the exhibit, and to facilitate an increase in school group visits, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will be extending the exhibition The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World through March 8. The show of approximately 100 works opened in June 2014.
Drawn primarily ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Dozen Dealers to Launch Weekly On-line Antiques Show
Tuesday at noon. That’s the day and time a group of 12 dealers want antiques buyers to remember. Every Tuesday at noon (Eastern time), a batch of fresh antiques will go on line at the soon-to-be-launched Web site 1st N Line (www.1stnline.com), a new on-line weekly antiques show.
The idea came ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appraisal Radio Show Seeks Guests
Author, auctioneer, appraiser, and home downsizing specialist Michael Ivankovich’s “What’s It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser” radio show has been extended by popular demand to a full hour. The show airs live on Friday mornings on WBCB 1490 AM in the greater Philadelphia area from 9 to 10 a.m. Ivankovich ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Event at the New Jersey Home Show
JMK Shows’ new three-day event, Decorating with Antiques, will be held March 6-8 at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison, New Jersey. It will be a new feature of the New Jersey Home Show, New Jersey’s largest event of its kind.
The collaboration between Allison Kohler, owner of JMK Shows, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Digitized Wallpaper
For the past two years, Historic New England has been cataloging and digitizing its wallpaper collection. More than 6000 samples have been electronically cataloged and are available on line (www.WallpaperHistory.org). The collection includes rolled, flat, oversize, and three-dimensional materials, which each require unique handling and digitization methods.
The project makes accessible ... (Read More)
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