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DARD HUNTER, ROYCROFT, Exceptional hammered copper and silver candelabrum, 1906-08.  Orb and Cross mark.  Est.  $20,000 - $30,000Roycroft among highlights at upcoming Rago sale
ArtfixDaily Staff - September 14th, 2010 05:16
A browse-worthy duo of 20th-century design auctions is slated for a three-day weekend this fall. Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, will offer up several hundred choice decorative items, from Arts & Crafts pieces by Stickley and a Louis Comfrot Tiffany sketchbook to Danish modern furniture and colorful 1960s Italian glass. The October 1 to 3 sale features a fine selection of Roycroft furniture and decorative arts. These simple and classic American furnishings start ...

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A doucai chicken cup, produced during China’s Yongzheng rein, (1723- 1735), cost $400,000.
The St. Louis-based Xiling Fund, LLC. launched four years ago with $17 million earmarked for investment purchases of antique Chinese porcelain. Managed by Bill Carey, president and chief ...
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Childe Hassam - "Eastern Oregon"Paintings & Decorative Arts Auction
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"Portrait of Lydia Kuznetsova" by Ilya Efimovitch Repin, 1901.  Oil on canvas.Antiquamania
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ALVR'S PARIS YEARS: INSIDE A DEALER'S LITTLE GOLD BOOK
PARIS, FRANCE  –  A La Vieille Russie is lifting the cover on a dealer’s most closely-guarded secret: its guest book, or livre d’or, containing the names of dozens of its ...

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The Potato, 1928, by Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983).  Oil on canvas, 39 3/4 x 32 1/8 in.  (101 x 81.6 cm) Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 (1999.363.50) © 2010 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings That Inspired Them
Release Date: 14 September 2010
During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893-1983)purchased postcards from the museums he visited. Two 17th-century Dutch genre scenes particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of paintings he created that ...

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