Siberian on the outside, sizzling in the inside: That describes the Metropolitan Pavilion on the ice-cold evening of January 23, when opening night at this year's METRO Show took off at a fevered pitch. More than 2,000 winterized art and antiques adventurers shed parkas, anoraks and other Eskimo attire before enthusiastically plunging into the cornucopia of riches that is the METRO Show. In comments from attendees and the 34 participating top-tier specialists, superlatives for the second incarnation of the METRO Show ricocheted around the Pavilion, and the excitement and exuberance of the crowd were palpable. Here is a mid-show survey of some of the pieces that were sold during the first days of the show:

The Ames Gallery (Berkeley, California): Deborah Barrett's Woman Sitting with Octopus, mixed media; Jim Bauer's “Untitled Wall Mount,” 2011.

Armstrong Fine Art (Chicago): Two works by Grietje Postma (Untitled 2012-II and Untitled 2012-III), woodcut reduction on thick wove Van Gelder, 2012.

Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC (New York): Head of Woman by William Zorach, a bronze with gold patina.

Cavin-Morris Gallery (New York): Untitled by J.B. Murray, circa 1978-88, tempera, crayon, ink, marker on paper; Pascal Oudet's Dendrochronology La Baume, 2011, wood; Phyllis Sullivan's Vertex No. 54, 2012, stoneware; Timothy Wehrl's The Interview, 2012, colored pencil graphite on paper.

Clifford A. Wallach Tramp Art, Folk Art & Americana (Manalapan, New Jersey): Tramp art sunflower corner frame by John Zubersky, circa 1910.

David Richard Gallery (Santa Fe): Untitled 2, an Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas by Lilly Fenichel, 1963.

Garthoeffner Gallery Antiques (Lititz, Pennsylvania): A pair of carved and painted wood flags by George Stapf, circa 1880; a Windsor writing armchair, 1780; a nautical diorama, circa 1830-40; a salesman's sample plow, 1880; a pair of out-sized wood-carved and polychrome-painted American flags, circa 1870; a banner weather vane; and a wood figure, circa 1820, with articulated arms.

Gary Sullivan Antiques, Inc. (Sharon, Massachusetts): A fine Queen Anne mahogany bonnet-top high chest, Boston, circa 1760; a Queen Anne Mahogany tall clock case by Gowen Brown Boston, circa 1760.

Gemini Antiques Ltd. (Oldwick, New Jersey): A carved lion’s head; a menagerie wagon medallion; French articulated soldiers, circa 1860; a giant pistol trade sign, circa 1950; a barber pole, New York, circa 1870; Old South Church Still Bank; trench-art artillery shell, American, 1918; a palmist trade sign, circa 1895.

George Jacobs Self-taught Art (Newport, Rhode Island): Etchings by Frederick Kahler.

Hill Gallery (Birmingham, Michigan): A pair of stone lions, circa 1870; Model with Whirly-gig by Philip Pearlstein.

H. Malcolm Grimmer Antique American Indian Art (Santa Fe): Almost half of the illustrations from the rare Macnider Ledger Book, from the Sioux tribe, circa 1880.

Il Segno de Tempo (Milan): A set of numerical cake molds. 

Jeff R. Bridgman American Antiques (York County, Pennsylvania): An extensive collection of American baskets on an elaborate tramp art shelf; a 13-star U.S. Navy commissioning pennant, circa 1876. 

Just Folk (Summerland, California): A 20th-century pointing-hand trade sign; a solid brass tailor's shop sign from the first quarter of the 20th century; a reverse-glass tinsel painting.

Lillian Nassau LLC (New York): Tiffany Studio art glass; ceramics and a menorah by Albert Paley; a Tiffany frame, early 20th century.

M. Finkel & Daughter (Philadelphia): A pair of 19th-century gatepost crows; a linked-heart-shape door mat; and four samplers, including ones made by in 1825 by Kiziah Sharp and in 1840 by Jane M. Huey.

Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New York): Vanessa Germann's I Think I'm Beautiful and You Is Sho' Nuff Beautiful Too, mixed media. Ricco/Maresca, New York: Cipher by George Widener, 2012, mixed media on found paper; monumental figurehead from New York, circa 1850-60, made of yellow pine with black pitch; Magic Circle 12-21-2012, also by Widener, ink on pieced paper, 2012; a collection of hand-lettered sign painters samples, Paris, France circa 1930.

Samuel Herrup Antiques (Sheffield, Massachusetts): A pair of painted side chairs, circa 1880; a Pennsylvania gate-leg table, circa 1720-40; a domed top box from New England, circa 1820-40; an ebony mirror of Flemish or German origin from the 17th century.

Stephen Score Inc. (Boston): A yellow sunburst zinc gate ornament, circa 1920; an Art Deco floor lamp; a wooden barn owl, circa 1900-20; a feathered tunic from the Inca highlands of Peru, circa 1400-1532; carved herons from Martha's Vineyard, circa 1960; Elizabeth Springett's Trees of Life quilt, circa 1855-60.

Steven S. Powers (Brooklyn): Eye of the Needle, a sculpture in elm by Clarke Fitz-Gerald, circa 1977; Wren, a small stone and wood sculpture by James Washington, Jr.; a folk art hooked rug called “Blue Cat,” circa 1910-1920.

Stephen Romano (New York): Kris Kuksi's Venus Admiring Mars Gun, 2008, mixed media; several works by outsider artist Charles A.A. Dellschau.

Winter Works on Paper (Brooklyn): Two works, both untitled, by Richard Polsky, 2000 and 2011.