This month, check out Tuck Gaisford’s haunting photographic exhibition “Hang Fire,” exhibited in Gallery #30 (Main Concourse of The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center) until July 31, 2013, and see our latest funky, fun objet d’art on our New Items page.
Tiffany & Co bride basket and liner, sterling silver, American, circa 1920, Rosalie Clauson Gallery. Still the most popular month in which to get married, June weddings date back to the Roman Empire. Romans planned their weddings to coincide with the festival of Juno, wife of Jupiter and goddess of marriage, celebrated on June 1. […]
This month, we celebrate June weddings and Father’s Day (June 16) with beautiful baubles for brides, and a host of elegant accessories for gentleman, including debonair canes, designer cufflinks, antique toys for gents who are young at heart, and more!
A brooch made for Daisy Buchanan: In the style of Art Deco, platinum over 14K gold, with a large central citrine, surrounded by sapphires and diamonds, American, circa 1920-1930. Clifford Baron Gallery. The last line of F. Scot Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby reads “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into […]
Just announced by Spring Show NYC, The Manhattan Art & Antique Center’s Leah Gordon is among the illustrious ranks of the dozen international fine and estate jewelry dealers chosen for showcase this year. The Show’s “Bling for Spring” press release features the moodily luminous piece above as one of the “rarest of the rare eye-grabbers […]
This Valentine’s Day, we take a closer look at the ardent history of the lover’s eye brooch, featured in our post on Romantic Antiques through the ages. In 1784, at the tender age of 22, the future King of England fell passionately in love with a commoner–a twice-widowed Catholic commoner, six years his senior. George, […]
A rose that blooms forever. Sterling silver, Cartier, France, 1990s. Leah Gordon Gallery. Of the many origin myths of Valentine’s Day, the most popular by far is that of Saint Valentinus, an early Christian saint put to death for performing marriages for young soldiers at a time when it was forbidden. According to one legend, […]
The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, widely recognized as the most important trade show in the industry, returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center, Jan. 31-Feb. 04, 2013, for it’s 52nd year. The largest antique exhibition in the world, the Miami Beach Show is unparallelled for variety and quality, featuring elegant 17th-19th century furniture, high-quality […]
Among the world’s oldest jewelry type, pins and brooches date at least as far back as the Bronze Age. Along with the Ancient Greeks, Romans wore a pin called the spina, which was a thorn or thorn-like brooch used to hold up garments. Throughout the centuries, many cultures contributed to the aesthetic evolution of pins […]