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(Show)The Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale
York, Pennsylvania
The Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale
There was a lot of Americana for sale at the 172nd Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale in York, Pennsylvania. A surprise snowstorm didn't keep a corps of regulars from coming to the York Fairgrounds on Friday, February 1. Some arrived ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record-Breaking Attendance at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed 7.36 million visitors to its three locations-The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer-in 2018, an increase over the 7 million it reported for 2017.
According to the institution, the number is due in part to the record-breaking attendance for Heavenly Bodies: ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Bartlam Discovery
An important and previously unrecorded American porcelain tea bowl and saucer, attributed to the John Bartlam manufactory in Cain Hoy, South Carolina, 1765-69, have been consigned to a February 19 auction at Woolley and Wallis in Salisbury, U.K.
The tea bowl and saucer were made at John Bartlam's pottery in Cain ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Clear Eyes, Full Hearts
The Young Collector
We talk a lot in the antiques business about the dollars and cents of things, but for many of us and for much of our work, it is often much more emotional work than financial. It is, bluntly, hard, challenging, sometimes even saddening work. Much of our effort ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2019
Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Now That's What You Call a Royally Great Vase!
One of the more important vases produced by the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg to come to auction for generations was a star turn of a Russian pictures and works of art sale held at Christie's, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Show
New York City
The Winter Show celebrated its 65th year, a sapphire jubilee, January 17-27, at the Park Avenue Armory. There were sapphire lights projected on the ceiling and on the front of the loan exhibition, Collecting Nantucket / Connecting the World. Many at the preview party wore sapphire blue, making ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chronometers Set the Pace at CRN
CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc.
The annual CRN Auctions' winter sale, held on January 27 in its Cambridge gallery, began with a group of choice chronometers-mostly marine examples-and a few navigational instruments from a meticulously held Connecticut collection that found great favor with bidders. The collector had ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lebanon Antique Show
Lebanon, Ohio
Midway through the first day of the Lebanon Antique Show, held January 26 and 27 in southwestern Ohio, show manager John Wanat was helping a buyer move a room-size Oriental rug. The new owner was from Cincinnati, roughly a half-hour's drive away, and hadn't come to the show to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edmondson's "Uplifted Lady" Raises the Roof
Case Antiques Auctions and Appraisals, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
John Case and the entire auction house team in Knoxville, Tennessee, were elated with the results of their January 26 one-day sale of over 850 lots. While the top-ten list contained everything from modern paintings to regional pottery to Federal formality, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pushing the Button Collection and Pulling Another
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
In 2017 figure skater champion and straight-talking sports commentator Dick Button lent a portion of his skating-related art collection to the Fenimore Art Museum. His posters, paintings, sculptures, skates, costumes, and other artifacts filled six gallery rooms at the Cooperstown, New York, museum. ... (Read More)
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