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Completed in 1776, the emperor Qianlong had a lavish palace built for his retirement, complete with 27 beautifully decorated buildings and a lush two-acre garden. Here, he meant to devote his life to Buddhist studies and writings. The furnishings, murals and detailed works of the garden are now on traveling display for the world to […]

Scott Defrin, gallery owner of The European Decorative Arts Company, located in Gallery #6 at The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center made an exciting and significant discovery this past April, when he found the long missing pedestal to Hercules and Antaeus, an important ivory sculpture attributed to…

The Akasaka Collection, Gallery #14, is definitely making an imprint on The Center. This gallery, located on the left side of the lobby, displays an enchanting collection of Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e from the 19th and 20th centuries…

The Bruce Frank Primitive Art Gallery in New York City contains some of the finest antique and tribal art from Oceanic, Southeast Asian African, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asian and Philippines cultures. The gallery offers appraisal services for individual items and is also interested in buying items. The Bruce Frank Primitive Art Gallery in New […]

An exhibition of the iconic American chronicler of beauty and loneliness, Edward Hopper’s oil sketches and paintings from his years in Maine (1914 and 1929) will be display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine next summer.

Who would have guessed, those commercial perfume bottles that our grandmothers kept on the vanity and bathroom shelf, would today be regarded as works of art? Once sold in department stores and small perfumeries, these crystal vessels are now displayed in locked cabinets, highly prized and sometimes highly priced!In fact, our own Ken Leach of […]

The Center welcomes Iris Rosenthal, Gallery #34, specializing in antiques from fine estates. You can find anything and everything there from paintings, silver and porcelains, to vintage and antique jewelry and purses. Iris says, ”The inventory is constantly changing. Next week you may find different items than you see here today. We have authentic, quality […]

Specializing in 19th century Russian and European Fine and Decorative art.RDM Fine Art, Inc. specializes in European and Russian paintings and works of art from 18th to early 20th century. Gallery inventory includes European and Russian paintings, porcelain, glass, silver, bronzes, as well as other antiques. We only deal in authentic Fine and Decorative Art. […]