A number of our dealers regularly post their beautiful items on Instagram. Here’s just a sampling, along with the dealer’s descriptions: Kenneth James Collection on Instagram: Joseph Saidian & Sons on Instagram: AAA Silver/Nathan Horowitz Antiques on Instagram: The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is located at 1050 2nd Avenue (at 56th […]
While inspired by the intaglio, the cameos creates the opposite effect – instead of the main focus being sunken, the image is raised. Modern cameos are carved into layered agates, dyed to create strong color contrasts. Hartley Brown in Gallery #50 has a number of charming modern cameos. Such as: Hardstone Cameo Pendant / Brooch […]
Brian Stewart has a plethora of dazzling vintage and antique jewelry. In fact, the gallery specializes in 19th & 20th century jewelry – as well as porcelain, paintings, and silver. Here are some elegant acquisitions. The perfect item to enhance your evening-wear – or to feel especially polished during the day. Large Vintage Topaz Ring […]
Brooches are lovely – and useful. A brooch can dress up – and even transform – an outfit. 50 years in business, Kenneth James Collection features fine 20th century jewelry from Cartier, Tiffany and Van Cleef & Arpels, in addition to commercial Lalique and Baccarat perfume bottles. They also carry a number of unique antique […]
We all know of the fantastic birds and beasts that roam the Cartier Menagerie. For a century, they’ve enthralled the stars of the fashionable world, including the Duchess of Windsor. What many don’t know is that it was one woman Jeanne Toussaint (1887-1976) who brought the wild kingdom to Cartier’s repertoire. Muse, lover, and director […]
As today is International Museum Day, it seems like a good time to appreciate living in a city so filled with iconic art that you can’t walk several blocks without running into a masterpiece at one of our museums. With 100 galleries, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center often feels like a museum of its […]
It’s #MuseumWeek on Twitter–7 days, 7 themes that give the public a rare insider look into museums around the world. We’ve been inspired by today’s theme of “Inspiration” to profile Salvador Dali’s famed “Tristan & Isolde” brooch from our gallery Leah Gordon. True, we just profiled Dali’s “Ruby Lips with Teeth Like Pearls” but what […]
Since it’s #FantasyFriday, we’ll pose a question: have you ever wondered what Marilyn Monroe’s lips felt like? Salvador Dali’s brooch “Ruby Lips with Teeth Like Pearls” is the closest any of us will come to finding out. Modeled after the lips of the sensuous star, Dali mused “Poets of the ages, of all lands, write […]
Legend has it the ruby is lit by an inner flame that can’t be extinguished. According to ancient Asian lore, the ruby contained the “spark of life,” and was known as “the lamp stone”–an Emperor of China was even said to have lit his chamber with a ruby that “burned as bright as day.” We […]
The only gem born of a living creature, the June birthstone pearl has been valued since antiquity. It’s easy to understand the fascination people have always felt for this most elegant of gemstones originating in the humblest of places. As many know, the pearl is found in the shells of mollusks but you may not […]