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EDINBURGH, UK – A pair of 18th-century Italian giltwood side tables from a Scottish country house hammered for £220,000 ($278,675) and sold for £288,200 ($289,060) with buyer’s premium at Lyon & Turnbull on March 27. They were consigned from Penicuik House in Midlothian, where they had likely been since the 18th century. Full results for the […]
NEW YORK – On Tuesday, April 16, starting at 3 pm Eastern time, Jasper52 will hold a sale titled Era of Elegance: Furniture & Decorative Arts, featuring almost 250 lots of chairs, tables, lamps, ottomans and footrests, mirrors, dressers, chaise lounges, clocks, and folding screens, to name a scant few types of the pieces on […]
GENESO, N.Y. – An oil by Louis Comfort Tiffany that probably hung in his Long Island home hammered for $50,000 ($62,500 with buyer’s premium) at the March 20 Fine Art and Antiques sale at Cottone Auctions. Gossipy Market Women at Nuremberg, an oil on canvas housed in its original carved and giltwood frame attributed to […]
World War II-era Poster, in Hebrew, Recruiting Jewish Women to Join the British Army, $7,800 TEL AVIV – Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction. Less well known, and much harder to find, are the posters that encouraged thousands of Jewish women to […]