BOSTON, Mass. – www.skinnerinc.com – Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts in its Boston gallery on June 27th at 10 a.m. More than 550 lots of furniture and decorative and utilitarian objects from the Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, [Read More]
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Sotheby’s London have auctioned a magnificent pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases for £2,617,250, well in excess of the pre-sale estimate for the pair of £1.2-1.8 million. No less than five bidders – three in the saleroom and two on the telephones – competed for the vases, in Sotheby’s biannual Russian Works [Read More]
“Paperweights of this quality attract high bidding in any economy,” says Larry Selman, president of L. H. Selman Ltd. Bidders from Europe were especially active against U.S. buyers, with very lively internet bidding. Along with those from the U.S., there were bidders from Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the [Read More]