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New British law may make finder's fees risky
The Art Newspaper / December 16th, 2010
The Bribery Act, new British legislation aimed at curtailing bribery in the corporate world, which takes effect next year, may jeopardize the legality of the longstanding practice of paying finder's fees in the art trade. An art dealer may face prosecution for paying a commission to a third ...
Meissen among treasures in Christie's Nov. 23 sale
ARTFIXdaily's ArtWire / November 15th, 2010
The year 2010 marks the tri-centenary of the Meissen Porcelain Factory (1710-2010). This accomplishment alone is a standing testament to the ingenuity and creative fervor of its craftsmen. Located in eastern Germany, Meissen was the first place in Europe to produce high quality porcelain ...
Legendary designer Michael Taylor's 'California Look' at auction
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2010
Bonhams & Butterfields brings American and European furniture and decorative arts to auction in San Francisco on Monday, November 1, 2010, concurrent to the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show. The international auctioneers will offer several important collections to bidders, including ...
Chinese art, modernism transform Biennale
ArtfixDaily / September 19th, 2010
Smaller, and with a many more stands focused on 20th century art, the dazzling 25th Paris Biennale on view at the Grand Palais through Sept. 22, has taken a giant leap into a new aesthetic in 2010. The New York Times' Souren Melikian calls this year's show "a watershed in the history of Western ...
Solid sales at Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
ArtfixDaily / September 4th, 2010
The 30th Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, from September 2 to 5, sustained a high gate as well as notable retail and trade business over Labor Day weekend. More than 550 exhibitors displayed nearly 200,000 objects from antiquarian books, fine art, jewelry, and silver, to textiles, ...
Collectors' guide to Georg Jensen silver
Telegraph / August 19th, 2010
Judith Miller reveals the top ten things you should know before buying antique and new Georg Jensen silver, from popular patterns of hollowware to price ranges, as well as styles and forms to look out for. "Prices rose about 15 per cent over the past decade, but levelled out during the ...
On the market: Antique games table of superior quality, Wilde history
ArtfixDaily / July 29th, 2010
Perhaps the world's greatest antique games table is newly available from New Orleans-based M.S. Rau Antiques. This incredible tables de jeux was made expressly for the posh yet distinctly bohemian Albemarle Club in London, the site of literary legend Oscar Wilde's 1895 scandal. If tables could ...
Four fairs burst on London antiques season
Financial Times / June 1st, 2010
The Financial Times has the low-down on the high art being offered at London antiques fairs this month. Timed to coincide with the major summer auctions are four fairs, beginning June 3-6 with West London Art and Antiques Fair. Next up is David and Lee Ann Lester's revamped Olympia, now dubbed ...
Destination London: The Masterpiece Fair is set to impress this June
ArtfixDaily / May 27th, 2010
The demise of the 75-year-old Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair last year perhaps paved the way for a new summer showcase for objects of desire: Masterpiece Fair 2010 London. Organizers plan to offer more than the traditional fair offerings of antiques and fine art. Wine, jewelry, ...
Get inside a cabinet of curiosities at The Getty or in London
ArtfixDaily / May 25th, 2010
The newly-designed European sculpture and decorative arts galleries at The Getty Center in Los Angeles are arranged according to period and theme, incorporating paintings and two-dimensional works of art. One extraordinary piece can be viewed close-up in 3-D: A collector's cabinet from ...
America's oldest hostelry hosts new antiques show
Community Advocate / May 6th, 2010
Longfellow's Wayside Inn in historic Sudbury, Mass., is holding its inaugural Antiques Show May 14 through 16. Nearly 50 premier antiques dealers from around the country will offer American art, American and European furniture, ceramics, silver, books, jewelry, folk art and more. American ...
Clars' browse-worthy May auction
Auction Central News / April 29th, 2010
Bolstered by four big estates, Clars' May 15-16 auction includes some important 17th and 18th century furnishings and a fine selection of art from Old Masters to contemporary artists. Asian art and jewelry round out the Oakland, Calif. firm's sale. Top-notch Western artists represented ...
Harbinger of Spring: Antique Garden Furniture Show & Sale
The Epoch Times / April 28th, 2010
From May 7 to 9, over 30 of America’s foremost dealers are offering their best quality pieces at the Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale at the New York Botanical Garden. Special events and lectures compliment the exhibitor offerings---from cast iron and marble fountains to early ...
Staffordshire figures one highlight of Sampson and Horne sale
Telegraph / April 22nd, 2010
Bonhams will offer some 800 lots from the inventory of legendary antique dealers Sampson and Horne next week in London. Jonathan Horne and his late business partner Alistair Sampson were world-renowned for their cache of early British pottery and English country furniture. Part of the ...
Country house sale: Givenchy gowns to sporting art
Luxist / April 21st, 2010
The contents of billionaire Patricia Kluge's Albemarle House, a lavish take on high-style country living in the English tradition, will be auctioned by Sotheby's on June 8 and 9. The grand 45-room estate in Albermarle County, Va., will be open May 31 for buyers of the auction catalog to preview ...
Los Angeles Antiques Show adds more Continental furniture dealers
Culture Kiosque / April 5th, 2010
New exhibitors to the Los Angeles Antiques Show this year are Bernard Steinitz of Paris and Carlton Hobbs of New York, both respected dealers of Continental furniture. From April 21 to 25, sixty-five exhibitors from across the U.S. and Europe will be featured in room-setting vignettes ...
Antiques restorer is bent on authenticity
Kentucky.com / April 5th, 2010
Mason Roberts, 38, is part artist and craftsman, part detective and historian. One of a handful of top-level antiques restorers in Kentucky, Roberts examines each damaged piece carefully so that, he says, "you won't be able to tell I did anything" after the restoration. For example, he uses ...
Imperial Russian box returns to the market
Luxist / April 1st, 2010
A heated bidding battle took an Imperial Russian silver box, with a $4,000 to $6,000 estimate, to $400,000 at a William J. Jenack auction in 2008. The winning bidder never paid up so the box is back on the block April 11. Made by I.P. Khlebnikov, a craftsman who worked for the House of Fabergé ...
Catherine the Great's emerald at auction
Luxist / March 21st, 2010
Christie's is offering a brooch once owned by Catherine II of Russia, the powerful 18th-century monarch known for her taste in art and jewelry. The 60-to-70 carat emerald was a gift to Sophie Dorothea when she wed Catherine's son Tsar Paul I in 1776. The hexagonal cut Colombian emerald is ...
A sale chock-full of clocks
Luxist / March 8th, 2010
Nearly 500 lots, dating from the 16th through the 20th centuries, in a wide variety of styles and price ranges, is on offer at the Bonhams & Butterfields Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts sale in Los Angeles on March 29. With a focus on pieces of English, French, Italian, Spanish ...