Best wishes for a glittering holiday season and a bubbly New Year from The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center! Here’s to a new year full of old treasures.
Best wishes for a glittering holiday season and a bubbly New Year from The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center! Here’s to a new year full of old treasures.
At the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, it’s always the holiday season. Our dealers are perpetually on the hunt for the best in art and antiques and we’re proud to house thousands upon thousands of their finds. The best part of the season for us is watching everybody else join in this spirit of finding […]
There may be a decided chill in the air this month, but November is also the month of changing fall colors, showcased so beautifully in Gustav Baumann’s “Road of the Morning,” and the start of the holiday season. This month, we feature festive decorations for the home and for yourself for this season of entertaining. […]
Scallop edged Victorian mourning brooch, pinchbeck and enamel. Contains hair of the beloved, and inscribed “In Memory Of”, possibly American, c. 1880-1890. Clifford Baron Gallery. As the spirit of the Halloween season tightens its grip on all of us, our thoughts inevitably turn to all things deathlike. Perhaps on a certain level, all antiques are […]
Ethereal, Oscar-winning actress, Kate Winslet graces the cover of Vogue (US), November 2013. In the spread above, shot by prominent fashion photographer, Mario Testino, Winslet looks regal in designer apparel accessorized only by a dramatic Art Smith cuff bracelet from The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center gallery, Leah Gordon. Pictured here in the spread for […]
Multicolored Tourmaline stone & 14K gold chain convertible necklace, American, 1950s. Antique Reflections Gallery. Appropriately for the month with the best changing fall colors, October’s two birthstones, tourmaline and opal, are best known for their varied hues. According to EarthSky, tourmaline is a stone that “exhibits the broadest spectrum of gemstone colors. Gem-quality forms of […]
Pin, fashioned as a floral spray, multi-colored sapphires and 18KT gold, American, circa 1980; Clifford Baron Gallery. September’s birthstone, the sapphire has long represented purity of the soul. In the Middle Ages, the clergy wore sapphires to symobolize heaven and to protect against temptations, and commoners believed it to attract heavenly blessings. Among its roots, […]
Andy Warhol once said, “I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment’.” He didn’t get that particular wish, but today, on what would have been his eighty-fifth birthday, the Andy Warhol Museum has launched a live feed of the […]
From bringing the wearer power to protection, a multitude of mystical properties have been ascribed to the peridot over the ages. One observable bit of magic is its tendency to appear an even more brilliant green under artificial light, hence its long-held title of “evening emerald.” As one of the oldest known gemstones, the peridot […]
18K gold ring with a large central ruby, surrounded by sapphires, diamonds, and emeralds, American, circa 1940-50. Hoffman-Gampetro gallery. Dorothy didn’t know it but when she first put on her ruby-encrusted slippers in The Wizard of Oz, the magic of the land passed to her. There have been many interpretations of the meaning behind Dorothy’s […]