Register now for our January auction on LiveAuctioneers. The auction will take place on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm Over 300 lots of art, antiques, jewelry and collectibles including: Baccarat, Galle, Tiffany. Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari, Sheffield, Porcelain, KPM, Chinese art, jade, bronze, Japanese Art including Woodblock prints, paintings, drawings and much more. Just […]
Tomorrow is The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center’s auction – join us live at 11am at the MAAC or on LiveAuctioneers! On Thursday, November 9th, you can bid on over 300 exceptional antiques and art pieces: (Find items at 1, 2 & 3) (Find items: 1, 2 & 3) Find your treasure! […]
We all know of the Aztecs and their towering relics. Many are less familiar with the far older cultures of Western Mexico who left no monuments or writing systems but whose shaft tomb culture produced the most dramatic artworks in Mesoamerica. Small in stature but bursting with artistry, Mexican tomb pottery is our one key […]
In 2010, Christie’s sold Pablo Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” for $106.5 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Needless to say, Picasso’s work fetches some of the highest prices in the art world. Can you imagine eating off one of them? Most people know Picasso as one of the […]
August 30, 2012–In a moving editorial in the New York Times, Eve. M. Kahn discusses the emergence of newly discovered pottery and fragments of vessels by David Drake, an enslaved 19th-century potter in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake signed his works “Dave” and sometimes inscribed them with poems that were odes to the “noble jar” or […]
In the long and vibrant history of Islamic art, the Samanid Dynasty (AD 819-999) though short-lived was one of the most significant. The first native Persian empire to arise after the Muslim Arab conquest, the Samanid Dynasty represented a renaissance of early Iranian culture, not the least of which is its contribution to pottery making. […]