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(Fragment)Annual VADA Show and Green Mountain Antiques Show Merge
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) show has merged with the Green Mountain Antiques Show, and the show will be held at the Union Arena Community Center in Woodstock on July 31 and August 1.The Green Mountain Antiques Show has been in existence for 12 years under the management of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Layton Pillar Mold Collection
This swirled vase or celery glass in brilliant sapphire blue, its eight ribs twisting sharply just below the boldly goffered rim and the bowl attached to the circular foot by a compressed-knop stem, is thought to have originated in New England or the Pittsburgh area. In overall excellent condition with ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Quiet Corner Show Gets Off to a Loud Start
For the early birds, the doors opened at 9 a.m., and there was a long line waiting to get in. Everyone was off and running, and several dealers made sales before everyone else arrived for the official opening an hour later.Susan and Gary Wirth of Union, Connecticut, made the 18th-centurycountry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Jades Evade Million-Dollar Mark
The sale’s top lot, this imperial carved jadebowl from the Qianlong period (1736-95), sold to a phone bidder for $303,000. James Callahan identified the buyer as an American collector. Made circa 1774 for the emperor himself, the bowl is light green with areas of russet and was estimated on the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frick's $25,000 Book Award
Julia Meech has been named the first winner of the Sotheby's Book Prize awarded by the Frick's Center for the History of Collecting in America. Meech is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion.Frick director Anne Poulet said, "The goal of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Annual New Hampshire Open House
Eight Fitzwilliam and Richmond, New Hampshire, antiques shops will hold their 19th annual Holiday Open Houses on Saturday and Sunday, January 2 and 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A variety of refreshments will be served at each shop, and many will offer special discounts. The dealers will be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bertoia Auctions Changes Date for Spring Kaufman Sale
The sale date for Bertoia Auctions' third installment of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection has been moved back by one week. Originally scheduled to take place April 9 and 10, the auction event featuring 900 lots of automotive toys and a selection of comic character toys will now be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea Launches Expanded Holiday Market
Brooklyn Flea is moving its Gifted holiday market into Manhattan, taking over the 6500-square-foot former Tower Records Annex storefront at 20 E. 4th Street (at Lafayette Street) in NoHo, where it has launched an expanded five-day-a-week pop-up shop until Christmas.Gifted will feature a rotating cast of 50 vendors until Thursday, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Select Stuff Surprisingly Strong at Americana Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby David HewettPhotos courtesy SkinnerThe 9" x 13¾" oil on board Arctic Sunset with the Ice-Bound Panther was in original condition, had an impeccable provenance, and the artist, William Bradford (1823-1892), was a well-known painter of ships and Arctic scenes. All that helped it more than double ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New American Decorative Arts Curator at Huntington
Harold B. "Hal" Nelson is the first curator of American decorative arts at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. A specialist in decorative art and contemporary craft for more than 30 years, Nelson has written numerous publications and organized a variety of exhibitions. As ... (Read More)
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