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(Book Review)Prior Knowledge
A Book Review
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Fenimore Art Museum, 2012, 64 pages, softbound, $29.95 plus S/H from Fenimore Art Museum (www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/museumshop) or (888) 547-1400.
When an auctioneer must catalog a small unsigned flat-painted portrait of a man, woman, or child, he or she ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stoneware Jug with Acrobats Goes to New York State Museum
A Fulper Brothers four-gallon stoneware jug depicting acrobats, offered at the 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York City for $295,000, is now part of the Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany. It was acquired for the museum by stoneware collector and benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Jewelry Auctions
Alexander Eblen said that this Victorian yellow gold, pearl, and shell cameo brooch was beautifully crafted. “With shell, you’re dealing with a material that is most common in cameos, so it gets the least respect; however, when you have a really finely carved one, and it’s something out of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More on Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home
Drama surrounding the sale of Norman Rockwell’s 1941 painting Willie Gillis, Package from Home appeared to sputter to a close in mid-April when Chicago auctioneer Sean Susanin chose a curious way to announce that he had sold the painting for $1.75 million. That sum is millions below the $3/5 million ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Creating Goals and Improving Web Traffic
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of setting a budget to cover the most essential marketing items that you need. This month we will review creating achievable goals. Once your core strategies have been set, you’ve completed your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, and you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-70
John Styles, a research professor in history at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. and an honorary senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, researched ordinary people’s clothing for his book The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, published in 2007. Very ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)High Noon for Consignors
Auction Law & Ethics
Transparent is not a correct adjective for the auction process. Murky is close. Midnight is the truth. When I serve as an auction consultant to consignors, this is the message that I continually emphasize.
Since April, we have been considering the lack of transparency in auctions and how ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Time passes, as they say, and in preparing this month’s reports I became only too aware that a few clocks I meant to include in earlier “Letters” were still on my files. Those clocks were accompanied in the waiting room by Chinese works of art sold in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Samuel Prince, Master Cabinetmaker in Revolutionary New York City
Figure 1. Royal Gazette, June 27, 1778.
Figure 2. Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer, April 22, 1773.
Figure 3. Bureau chest of drawers, or Beau Brummel, labeled by Samuel Prince, circa 1770, mahogany, poplar, brass (replaced), mirror glass, height 33¾", width 40", depth 22". Museum of the City of New York, New York City, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rebekah Milne and Seamus McCance, At Home Antiques and Gallery, Kingston, New York
Two generations. On left, Seamus McCance with partner Rebekah Milne, who’s next to her parents, Jim and Judy Milne.
Exterior of the shop at 81 Broadway in Kingston.
A view of the shop’s 30' ceilings.
Rustic hand-hewn farm table, $2850; set of seven reproduction Windsors—one arm and five sides—$3250; 1970’s red tableware, $20 ... (Read More)
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