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(Auction)Art and Design Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
In large part, it was business as usual when Treadway Gallery held its art and design auction on June 3 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then again, not really. The day marked a new era for Don Treadway, who founded the auction arm of his company ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moravian Flask Brings $28,600
A 6 5/8" tall Moravian pottery flask in the form of a woman wearing a green dress and holding a flower sold for $28,600 (includes buyer’s premium) on June 2 at Kennedy’s Auction Service’s sale in Selmer, Tennessee, of the Carl Smith estate. The circa 1811 piece is thought to ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Richmond, Indiana
Of the things normally scribbled into a reporter’s notebook, there are these: 100 dealers from 20 states. Twenty-ninth year. Strong sales of smalls across the floor. Spotty movement of furniture. A good gate that resulted in overflow parking.
Three terns, carved and painted wood, mid-20th century, New England, $195 the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Week on the Potomac
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company kicked off summer with an ambitious four-session catalog auction of antiques, fine arts, jewelry, and specialty collections. During the first week of June, nearly 1600 lots crossed the block. The week began on June 2, with a live sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Pottery Industry in Southeastern Massachusetts
The red earthenware manufactured in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the 18th and 19th centuries has been desired for at least a century now by collectors, dealers, and museums. A combination of factors have contributed to this infatuation, including the refinement of the production, the color of the glazes, and the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Art of the Peales
A Book Review
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations by Carol Eaton Soltis Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2017, 344 pages, hardbound, $65.
Carol Eaton Soltis, project associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), has created a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter From London, June 2018
Letter from London
The really big money went on pictures, notably some “Orientalist” paintings and a newly discovered example of canine portraiture, but the most expensive single piece featured in this month’s “Letter” is an exceptionally rare Leica camera—though it was actually sold in Vienna, not London.
This month’s most pictorial piece ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Tom Wesdorp, Antiques Anonymous, Millerton, New York
In the Trade
Tom Wesdorp calls his business Antiques Anonymous. It is, he said, “A play on Alcoholics Anonymous: you’ve got to get your fix once you’ve been bitten by the buying bug.”
But the term might also apply to him—and to dealers like him—in another sense. Although Wesdorp is hardly “anonymous,” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rococo: Celebrating 18th-Century Design and Decoration
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), English furniture maker, author of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1754), and important disseminator of what is commonly known today as the Rococo style. Since the 1840s, the term “Rococo” has been used to describe a variety ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
On Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, the 47th annual Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show filled the courtyard, downstairs galleries, and three floors of the atrium of the old Hoffman’s grist mill, built in 1864 and now transformed into a modern art museum.
A brief history of the ... (Read More)
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