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CRN Auctions of Cambridge, MA., announces a major winter Americana sale to be held at their gallery on Sunday, January 29th at 10:00 a.m. The auction is primarily comprised of material from a northern New Jersey estate as well as items from a Boxford, MA collector. Most of the items have not been on the market for years. The auction itself is made up of fine American antique furniture, American and European paintings, a fine collection of clocks, silver, decorative accessories, antique ...

  Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers is pleased to announce their December Auction will be held on Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at 12:00  noon.  The 400 lot auction will be comprised of a Fine Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture, Chinese and Japanese Decorative Works of Art and Textiles; American and European Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture; and Oriental Rugs and Carpets.  Highlights of the Fine Art session will include a charcoal ...

Gray's to Auction Renoir's Tête de Femme. Cleveland, OH. On November 17, 11am EST, Gray's Auctioneers will hold their 53rd Auction:  Fine Art, Decorations and Jewelry. This multifarious auction boasts fine art pieces from artists such as Renoir, Albert Bierdstadt and Ansel Adams, as well as Asian scrolls, sculpture and wardrobe; gorgeous diamonds, stunning silver and a rare 19 ft vintage cedar canoe. The focal point of this auction is centered on lot 33, Tête de Femme, an oil ...

The October online auction cataloge has been posted for viewing at www.aspireauctions.com. Bidding opens this Friday October 14th and lots close the following week, October 20th & 21st. It's a timed auction, so you can bid anytime from anywhere, up until the timer runs out for the lot. Lots close in 1 minute intervals, over a two day period. There are 982 lots, ranging from fine paintings, sculpture, Asian, sterling, fine watches & jewelry, pottery & glass, books, antique weapons, ...

Gray's Auctioneers' Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations auction on September 27, at 11am EST, will feature the sale of property from the personal collection of Cleveland luminaries Maxeen & John Flower.  The proceeds from the sale of the collection will benefit the Cleveland Institute of Art, Maxeen Stone Flower's alma mater. Highlights from the collection include lot 126, the largest John Koch painting to come up at auction. 'The Party' (also known as Summer Party) is a magnificent oil ...

On July 28, Gray's Auctioneers will be selling lot 177, a rare Civil War painting from1865 entitled 'Our Flag is There'.   The signature is indecipherable however the Gray's appraisal team has discovered a sketch by Thomas Nast which was featured on the cover of Harper's Weekly, February 13, 1864.  The sketch is an exact study for the painting.  Thomas Nast famously caricatured political figures of his day and was declared the father of the American cartoon for his work at Harpers.  He is ...

  CINCINNATI - Cowan's May 21 Spring Fine and Decorative Art Auction was hailed a success as a grouping of 80 lots of Chinese decorative arts in the auction sold for significantly higher than their pre-auction estimates. Sales of these Chinese decorative arts, totaling just over $378,500, accounted for over a third of the auction's $820,000 gross.  Overall, the auction attracted 995 bidders from 34 countries who competed for 368 lots.  The highest selling lot of the sale was a ...

Pacific Galleries Auction House in Seattle, Washington, is hosting an Asian auction session to be held May 16 starting at 5:30 p.m. PST. This session includes works by noted Chinese master artists, including Xu Beihong (1895-1953), Qi Baishi (aka Qi Huang and Qi Weiging, 1864-1957), Liang Guan (1899-1986), Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010) and Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997). The auction also includes numerous lots of carved ivory and jade, temple deities and architectual elements, porcelain and cloisonne ...

New York born and bred dealer and art historian, Carole Davenport, mounts her 15th Asia week show with a fine selection of Japanese art. A dynamic wood sculpture of a guardian from the 12th century, fine porcelain from the 17th century Kakiemon kiln, the creme de la creme of Japanese porcelain production, with its fine white body and vivid enamel design, robust 15th century pottery from Shigaraki, one of the six ancient kilns of Japan, and bold ink on paper calligraphy by masters from the ...

Many porcelains from Helena Woolworth McCann's collection are being offered through Aspire Auctions current online auction. Bidding has already started and lots will close this Thursday 9/2 starting at 10:00 am EST. Her collection was divided among several museums, principally the Met and the MFA, Boston, including CMA, by her foundation, the Winfield Foundation. Helena Woolworth McCann was one of the most important collectors of Chinese Export Porcelain in the 1930s, and she displayed it in ...