The Art Thief by Noah Charney
On Art and Connoisseurship by Max J. Friedlander
Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts by Nina Fletcher Little
Creating Picturesque America by Sue Rainey
Chinese Export Porcelain: East to West by Shirley Ganse
Andrew Carnegie by David NasawGeo | November 12, 2009
Five hundred exhibitors and with any luck thousands of antique-lovers will converge on Pier 94 in New York this weekend for Stella’s 2009 Pier Antiques Show. Merchandise will be found grouped by type, classic and formal; Americana, decorative arts and collectibles; 20th century Modern and Fashion Alley. There are shuttle buses from the Port Authority, Grand [...]
Geo | November 12, 2009
It was suggested to me this week that the history of antique shows extended back to 1934. “That’s nonsense,” my friend Jay Melrose, an antique dealer and show promoter, said when I mentioned this “history” on the phone. It turns out he had in his front hall a few issues of Antiquarian magazines from 1929. The [...]
Geo | November 12, 2009
I had some success finding book references for two items in this weekend’s auction of American furniture at Freemans in Philadelphia.
The first items is the fourth lot, a pair of Chippendale carved mahogany side chairs. I mentioned them in yesterday’s post as well. There are similar chairs in American chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale, by John [...]
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