November 30th, 2010 
Sun 
Just as average Chinese collectors fight hard to JIAN LOU (or find treasures in bargain price) in an antiques market diluted with forgery, they may also find that the expert opinions are getting worse. In Beijing alone, there are more than one hundred appraisal centers, not to mention the whole country. What are their qualifications? [...]
November 30th, 2010 ewmiller 
Two classical sideboards at auction recently caught my attention. The first has massive carving on the back splat remotely comparable (in terms of the scale of the carved area) only to one in storage at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. This sideboard is being offered at Dargate auctions in Pittsburgh December 5. The description [...]
Posted in Collecting, Furniture 
Tags: Classical, Dargate, empire, Garth's, heinz History Center, Hotel Lincoln, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Quervelle, Ye Antique Shoppe 
No Comments » November 29th, 2010 Hui 
Only two short blocks away from the City Hall of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is perhaps one of the most under-rated museums in the Northeast. Unlike the National Academy in New York City, which holds one of the most comprehensive American art collections but does not even have a permanent [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: flag painting, Jeff Bridgeman, National Academy, PaFA, Theta, William Trost Richards No Comments » November 28th, 2010 ewmiller 
While in downtown Philadelphia briefly this past weekend I noticed a large building, now condos, and wondered what it used to be. Turns out the words above the door spell out the Insurance Company of North America. What a great place to hang one of the portraits of former company executives that sold at Pook [...]
Posted in Artist, Auction Tags: Edmund Charles Tarbell, George Cochran Lambdin, James Reid Lambdin, Pook & Pook, Robert Field No Comments » November 27th, 2010 ewmiller 
Three paintings on display at Christie’s by Albert Pinkham Ryder were the draw to New York this weekend. It’s not often works by this artist come up for sale. The three were a disparate lot, one somewhat resembling a painting in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (The Lorelei, lot 87), the only other place [...]
November 22nd, 2010 ewmiller 
Such blunt talk from The Young Collector in Maine Antiques Digest. In the article titled The Last of the Young Collectors? in the December issue Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond write that the bottom line is that young professionals are not interested in purchasing and living with antiques. No young collectors are coming into the [...]
November 21st, 2010 ewmiller 
News came from Heritage Director of Texas Art Atlee Phillips via Facebook that the long-lost and much talked about The Battle of San Jacinto by Henry McCardle more than tripled estimate to bring $334,600 at November Dallas Signature Art of the American West & Texas Auction on Saturday. A draftsman for the Confederate Navy, McCardle later served [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Auction, Show & Gallery Tags: Atlee Phillips, Austin, Battle of San Jacinto, Dallas, David Dike Fine Art, Houston, McCardle, Onderdonk, Theta No Comments » November 20th, 2010 UAA Team 
Wow, what a show. It feels really good to come back from a completely great experience at an antique show. The best way to describe it is being tired, but invigorated rather than worn. Such was the case this weekend with the THETA Charity Antiques Show in Houston. This is one of the few shows [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Furniture, Show & Gallery Tags: Antiques Show, Houston, THETA Show No Comments » November 19th, 2010 Geo 
Doyle Auctions sent out a release today regarding a recent sale. The headline was Robert Havell Jr’s Death of a Warrior brought more than $80,000 November 18–the Second Highest Price achieved for a work by the artist. Less noticed was the fact that a work by Charles Willson Peale went for what seems a very [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art, Auction Tags: Charles Willson Peale, Doyle, Robert Havell Jr. No Comments » November 19th, 2010 ewmiller 
The recent sale of a mid-18th century Qing dynasty vase for $68 million to a Chinese buyer is appearing with some frequency in the media. It’s also the latest in a long list of high-price heirlooms that have headed back to China. I’ve had some success selling items with Chinese origins, although much less significant, [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Art, Auction, Collecting Tags: American Antiques, Chinese Vase, international market, Modern Art, Qing 2 Comments »
