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(Feature)Hooked Rugs: Rare Frost Rug Pattern in Farnsworth Museum Show
The original Frost pattern No. 171 is clearly marked with the E.S. Frost & Co. name. It has a basket tipping to the left in contrast with the Waldoboro rug at the right. It seems highly unlikely that two designers during the same time frame would come up with the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Secondhand Dealers Law Stopped and Passed on Cape Cod
by Clayton PenningtonArticle 37 on the warrant for the May 4 town meeting in Dennis, Massachusetts, was a seven-page proposed bylaw that, if passed, would have severely limited the antiques business in the town of approximately 16,000. Action by local dealers resulted in the article's being pulled from the town ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minor Ordered to Pay Sotheby's
Multimillionaire art collector Halsey Minor, former head of CNET, has lost the latest skirmish in his ongoing war with the New York City auction houses.
In a March 31 judgment, Minor was ordered by U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones to pay Sotheby’s $6,639,850.99. As of June 14, no payments had ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Lockwood de Forest's Artistic Journey
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenLockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for Indiaby Roberta A. MayerUniversity of Delaware Press, 2008, 238 pages, hardbound, $49.50 plus S/H from University of Delaware Press, (www2.lib.udel.edu/ udpress) or (302) 831-1149.Based on her doctoral dissertation, Roberta A. Mayer's book firmly places Lockwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transferware Collectors Club Database
In 2005 the Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) made a commitment to establish a database of transfer printed patterns on British pottery. The new database was completed and launched in July 2006. The objectives for developing this one-of-a-kind database of patterns were to provide a comprehensive on-line source of information about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Horan Joins R.O. Schmitt's Clock Auction House
Daniel Horan (left) and R.O. "Bob" Schmitt at the April 24 sale in Manchester, New Hampshire.by Jeanne SchintoR.O. "Bob" Schmitt has announced that, while he is relocating his residence to Phoenix, Arizona, this summer, the clock auction house he founded in 1979 will continue to have its semiannual sales in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Tiffany Studios Turtleback chandelier, early 20th century, green geometric leaded glass panels and a wide band of turtleback tiles, marked, 22" in diameter, one broken panel, a couple of cracked panels, missing the ceiling cap, $31,725.KPM plaque of Theodora, 6th-century Greek wife of Emperor Justinian, German, late 19th century, signed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kaminski Goes Bicoastal
This is a detail of Story of the Flag by Charles T. Webber (1825-1911) that sold for $24,150 (est. $5000/8000). The 15¾" x 19½" oil on canvas, signed and dated 1877, is inscribed on the reverse at the top of the stretcher “Property of Mrs. W.P. Cronan/Jesse Grant/ father of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Ott Receives Frost Essay Award
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2009 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award to John Ott, associate professor of art history at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was selected by the editorial board of American Art, the museum's scholarly journal, for "Reform in Redface: The Taos Society ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer to Plead Guilty in Fake Picasso Case
Tatiana Khan, a West Hollywood, California, art and antiques dealer, agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges related to a $2 million sale of a fake Picasso. In the plea agreement filed on April 27, Khan agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to the Federal Bureau of ... (Read More)
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