March 23rd, 2012 
UAA Team 
A three-door mahogany bookcase crafted around 1890 by the renowned American furniture maker R. J. Horner, sold for $22,425 by Stevens Auction at a sale of the living estate of Brenda McCarthy of Tupelo, Mississippi. The bookcase boasted Atlas statue sides and curved glass on the center door. It was monumental in size – 5 feet [...]
Posted in Antiques, Auction, Furniture 
Tags: A&S Antique Auction Co, Atlas, R. J. Horner 
No Comments » March 22nd, 2012 UAA Team 
The Dallas International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show is apparently making a third go at a show in the Big D, this time at Market Hall. The new location is more central to the city, but may not have the same cachet of the Dallas Convention Center (site of the 2009 Show) or the newly [...]
March 10th, 2012 ewmiller 
If you’ve never been to antiques shows in Texas, when finally make it, you find they have their own look and do their own thing. Today might be the day to make the trip to Fort Worth for “the oldest antiques show in the west,” the Dolly Johnson Antiques and Art Show. The show was [...]
Posted in Antiques, Show & Gallery Tags: Country French, Dolly Johnson, Erik Yang, Fort Worth, Gordon Harrison, Jan Harter, JFK, Uncommon Objects No Comments » February 24th, 2012 UAA Team 
A rare and historical portrait flask showing strong busts of George Washington and Henry Clay, made circa 1840-1860 by Bridgeton Glass Works (NJ), soared to $52,650 in the Internet and catalog auction of Session III of the Thomas McCandless lifetime bottle collection. The auction went online Jan. 18 and accepted its final bid on Feb. [...]
February 20th, 2012 UAA Team 
Coinciding with Winterthur’s reopening this spring, the museum will host the 11th annual Sewell C. Biggs Winterthur Furniture Forum, Furniture in the South: Makers & Consumers, on March 1 and 2. An array of scholars and specialists, including distinguished curators from Winterthur, will lead two days of fascinating lectures and workshops focusing on southern regional [...]
February 19th, 2012 Hui 
The Antique Elegance Show, formerly the Victorian Elegance Show in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, is a show of a different breed. Changing the name from Victorian to antique does not change the dandy nature of the show. If vintage clothing and jewelry have traditionally distanced some antiques dealers who strictly follow a thumb rule [...]
Posted in Antiques, Show & Gallery, Vintage Tags: Antique Elegance, Antiques, Austin, Clothing, Ephemera, flatware, Jewelry, Richardson, Vintage No Comments » February 15th, 2012 Geo 
On March 11 the Amon Carter Museum of American Art will open a presentation of four masterworks by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), the preeminent expatriate painter of the late 19th century. In Sargent’s Youthful Genius: Paintings from the Clark, four renowned works from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will travel to Texas for [...]
February 11th, 2012 ewmiller 
A stool labeled as being from the Han dynasty (roughly 200 B.C. to 220 a.d.) recently brought $220 million with premium at auction in China. There’s only one problem, stools were not yet used in China during the Han Dynasty. According to Inside China, the jade set labeled “Han Qing Huang Yulong phoenix dressing table [...]
Posted in Antiques, Asian Art, Auction Tags: Art, Asian, Auction, China, Han Dynasty, Qing Dynasty No Comments » February 9th, 2012 Hui 
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York—the first retrospective on Phyfe in 90 years was long over-due. It was postponed so long due to the financial situation that at one time I thought it would never materialize. The first retrospective show of Phyfe’s furniture, also at the Met, curated by Charles Over Cornelius in 1922, [...]
Posted in Furniture, Museum, Show & Gallery Tags: Duncan Phyfe, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1 Comment » February 5th, 2012 ewmiller 
The answer far too often is no. The large number of antiques-related shows on television about antiques are indication antiques are a growing part of the popular lexicon. Yet arriving in Nashville at the start of antiques week, I couldn’t find a local who knew it was antiques week. The driver of the hotel shuttle, [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Show & Gallery Tags: AMERICAN PICKERS, Antique Archaeology, Dealers, Heart of Country, Mike Wolfe No Comments »
