pottery

  Lambertville, NJ:  The Rago Arts and Auction Center hosts an open house on Thursday, February 23, featuring a talk by Newark Museum curator Ulysses Grant Dietz.   In “What Happened When Pots Became Art?”, Mr. Dietz will discuss ceramics as art, contrasting how this was idea was apprehended in the 19th C. and how multiple aesthetics came to be bracketed by the market into what we now call American art pottery.   Ulysses Grant Dietz has been the curator of ...

1300 LOTS OF WHAT’S DESIRABLE, USEFUL, INTERESTING AND AFFORDABLE.    Rago’s Auctions is holding a 1300 lot Discovery Sale over a two-day period, on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11 a.m. All of the lots in the Discovery sale are unreserved, meaning that the high bid – no matter how low – wins the lot. Friday’s sale consists of over 600 lots of original and vintage art, furnishings, tableware, Asian, Americana, collectibles, books and ephemera, and ...

Rago Auctions announces auction schedule for Winter/Spring 2012.     Discovery: Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, 2012        Everything goes in this no reserve sale - over 1300 lots of what's desirable, useful, interesting and most affordable. Friday: 600+ lots of original and vintage art, furnishings, tableware, Asian, collectibles, books and ephemera, ethnographic property, and a large selection of Early 20th Century property. Saturday: ...

   Rago Arts and Auction Center’s 20th /21st C. Design sale brought $3.39 million, on October 1 & 2, 2011. “The sale was solid almost throughout, with particular interest in contemporary glass, American 20th century ceramics, and American craft furniture by Nakashima and Powell.  The Johnny Swing sofa was the high lot and reflected an ongoing interest in great contemporary design at this level,” said David Rago.  “Total sales for both Early 20th Century and Modern property were well ...

Over 900 lots of exceptional property:  from Susan Frackelton’s heir and John Dickinson’s San Francisco home; studio furniture by Nakashima, Phil Powell and Paul Evans; contemporary design by Johnny Swing; contemporary glass from Chihuly, Zinsky, Lewis. Previews begin September 24th. Lambertville, NJ:   On Saturday, October 1st and Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its third auction of 20th C. Design for the year.  Included among the more than 950 ...

  The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents a new exhibition, Bacon Level, Hickory Flat, and the Illustrious Potteries of Randolph and Chambers Counties, Alabama, on view from August 6-November 26, 2011 in Gallery C. In the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century, a collection of neighboring towns in southern Randolph County and northern Chambers County was home to some of the South's foremost potteries. The high-quality clays native to that area attracted numerous ...

CINCINNATI – Cowan’s is pleased to announce our upcoming September 9, 2011 American Indian and Western Art Auction. This sale offers a unique selection of fresh-to-the-market beadwork, paintings, carvings, weavings and basketry from America’s history dating from the 19th to the 20th centuries. Some of the highlights in the sale are a Cadzi Cody Shoshone Painted Hide Collected by Ervin F. Cheney, three portfolios by photographer Edward Curtis, an Important Portrait of Red Cloud by the ...

The firing of objects made from earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware comprise the larger category known as ceramics and during Garth’s March 11-12, 2011 Americana auction, the ceramics definitely provided continual fireworks as bidders, both in-house and in absentia, took home a variety of vessels, some typical and some more unusual, at very strong prices.  With over 800 lots offered in two sessions, the top lot of the sale was a monumental Cochiti effigy figure dating to the late 19th – ...