Trending
Auction House
Museum, Dealer & Gallery
56 Posts
Category: Textiles & Tapestries
Artists, Auction Industry
Artist to Know: Ramona Sakiestewa
Hindman Offers Two Weavings by Leading Contemporary Artist Hopi weaver and artist Ramona Sakiestewa knew her career path by the age of seven. At the time, she didn’t know that she would one day evolve ancient Pueblo weaving techniques, launch a homeware brand, and help design the Smithsonian’s National Museum…
Auction Industry, Press Release
Fine Art, Silver, Art Pottery & Art Glass Go Up For Bid On Saturday, April 24
Turner Auctions + Appraisals Offers 260 Lots of Fine and Decorative Art Decorated with a band of flower heads. Incised mark on bottom with date mark XXI and incised mark for Lorinda Epply. Estimate $300 - $500. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 12, 2021 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased…
Auction Industry, Press Release
Converse Auctions’ Online-only Armchair Adventurer Auction On April 24th Features Wild & Wonderful Items From Around The World
There’s something for just about everybody in the 470-lot auction, starting at 12 noon EDT. PAOLI, Pa. – Converse Auctions is inviting everyone to chill out, pull up a seat and bid on something wild and wonderful in its upcoming Armchair Adventurer Auction scheduled for Saturday, April 24th, beginning promptly…
Auction Result, Press Release
Gorgeous Chinese Qing Dynasty Or Earlier Embroidered Tapestry In A Frame Knocks Down For $12,500 In A Bruneau & Co. Auction Held Jan. 28th
The Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction was online-only. No live gallery bidding due to COVID. Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) or earlier embroidered tapestry depicting three Buddha figures seated on lotus thrones, nicely housed in a 37 ¾ inch by 25 ½ inch frame ($12,500). CRANSTON, R.I. – A beautiful…
Auction Industry
Andrew Jones Auctions has two online-only auctions planned for December (the 6th and the 8th), in time for the holidays
The Design for the Home and Garden auction will feature nearly 300 lots from private collections and estates, highlighted by property from a Montecito residence Red ochre blown glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) (est. $40,000-$60,000). LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, November 20, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Andrew Jones…
Auction Result
A French Atmos perpetual time clock and a Wettlaufer child's wagon lead the way in Miller & Miller's Oct. 24th auction
The auction was highlighted by the outstanding lifetime collections of Dick Withington (rare clocks) and Brian Stead (Canadian furniture and pottery). French Atmos perpetual time clock from the 1940s, 9 ½ inches tall, with metal chrome plated and glass case and painted metal dial with Arabic numerals (CA$6,490). NEW HAMBURG,…
Auction Industry
Five For Friday: Exploring Luxury Interior Design with Stair Galleries’ Muffie Cunningham
Drawing of Muffie Cunningham, Director, Decorative Arts at Stair Galleries. Photo courtesy of Stair. Ever look at a breathtaking apartment building and wonder who lives there... and how? Stair Galleries is offering collectors the opportunity to vicariously experience the living space and lifestyle of a legendary New York City power…
Art Industry
Minted and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Launch Design Collaboration Supporting the Arts and Independent Artists
Classic Works of Art Are Reimagined as Contemporary Holiday Card and Greeting Card Designs by Minted’s Global Community of Independent Artists SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Minted, the design marketplace that brings unique design from the best independent artists to consumers everywhere, today announced a collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eleven of…
Auction Preview
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts: Session II
1981 represents an important period in the career of Helen LaFrance, an often-overlooked African American painter of the late 20th century. Her work shows the influence of the disappearing lifestyle and culture of the rural American South. Beyond themes of rural life, she paints many religious concepts and floral studies…
Auction Result
Lyon & Turnbull announces results of 'Five Centuries' auction in Edinburgh
A rare 17th century Indo-Portuguese embroidered coverlet worked in chain-stitched yellow silk on a cotton ground with a central profile portrait of a ruler within bands of musicians, hunters, boats, fish and animals sold for £18,750. EDINBURGH.-Lyon & Turnbull’s Five Centuries auction in Edinburgh on September 2-3 was hugely successful…
Auction Preview
American & Euro Ceramics/Early 20th C. Design
After completing college, Arthur Eugene Baggs joined Dr. Herbert James Hall in teaching patients pottery for occupational therapy at a Massachusetts sanatorium. After running the program, called Marblehead Pottery, for many years, Baggs converted it into a company in 1915. It continued to operate under his direction until its closure…
Auction Industry
Three centuries of European furniture and works of art from historic Scottish country house to be offered at auction
Flemish Mythological Tapestry of Dido and Aenaes. Estimate: £6000 - 8000 + fees. Photo: Lyon & Turnbull. EDINBURGH.- This September Lyon & Turnbull’s Five Centuries auction in Edinburgh will include a selection of furniture and works of art from Balcarres House, Fife, home of the Earls of Crawford and Balcarres. Balcarres House,…
Auction Industry, Press Release
Stair to Offer the Collection of the late Sir John Richardson
John Richardson: A Scholar Collects Stair is pleased to offer the contents of Sir John Richardson’s lower Fifth Avenue loft on September 16 & 17, 2020 in what will certainly be one of our most interesting ‘lifestyle’ sales to date. With every room in his lushly decorated loft painted a…
Auction Preview
Dining In | New York
Mario Buccellati was one of the first Italian goldsmiths to establish a shop on Fifth Avenue in New York. He was often called the “Prince of Goldsmiths” for his popularity among the royalty of Europe. He was greatly influenced by the motifs of the Renaissance period, which ultimately became his…
Auction Result
Charming decorative arts exceed estimates in Neue Auctions' Summer Art & Antiques Auction, July 25th
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A simple but charming garden bird whirligig yard ornament standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall with a central post, attached to which were seven spinning branches, each with a bird on either end, proved irresistible to bidders in Neue Auctions’ online-only Summer Art & Antiques Auction…
Auction Industry
Matthew Barton announces European and Asian Works of Art auction
'Prayers and Recitations at the Muharram Festival’, Circa of Sewak Ram. Patna, India, circa 1820-30. Estimate: £5,000-£7,000. LONDON.-Matthew Barton's European and Asian Works of Art auction of 374 lots encompasses centuries of craftsmanship; when browsing the catalogue, the diversity of pieces and ‘cross pollination’ of styles will stimulate a collector’s…
Auction Industry
African American Art In the Spotlight at Case’s July 11-12 Auction
Sculptures and paintings by William Edmondson, Beauford Delaney, and Augusta Savage, along with two important African American quilts, headline the Summer Case Antiques Auction, set for July 11-12 at the company’s headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee. The auction also offers a dazzling array of high-end estate jewelry and timepieces, American furniture and…
Exhibitions
browngrotta arts presents Cross Currents: Water/Art/Influence online exhibition
browngrotta arts is pleased to announce Cross Currents: Water/Art/Influence, an online exhibition featuring works of Modern Craft. Water has long been a potent influence for the artists exhibited by browngrotta arts, who explore its mystery and majesty in widely divergent ways. Works reside at the intersection of the maker’s fascination with…
Art Industry
The ATADA Online Show & Sale - Spring 2020
See the Finest, Authentic Native American and Tribal Art from around the world without leaving your house. The Authentic Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA) announces the Spring 2020 ATADA Online Sale opening May 20, 2020. Find a wide variety of vintage and contemporary Native art from over 40 knowledgeable, vetted…
Auction Preview
American & Brilliant Period Cut Glass Auction
Cut glass can be traced back to 1,500 B.C. Egyptian vessels. In the United States, the first glassmaking factory was established in at Jamestown, Virginia in 1608. However, it was not until 1876 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia that American brilliant-cut glass garnered attention. By the end of the…
