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Category: Chests & Boxes

  • Auction Industry

    A 17th-Century Mexican Chest

    A rare piece of 17th-century furniture will soon reveal its lavish decoration, carved using a technique specific to workshops in the Oaxaca region. Mexico, 17th century, attributed to the workshops of the Villa Alta de San Ildefonso in Oaxaca. Carved, painted walnut chest, mythological scenes with cut-out contours and appliqué…

    A 17th-Century Mexican Chest
  • Auction Industry

    When Blake, an English Cabinetmaker, Imitated Boulle

    This lavish English replica of the great Louis XIV cabinetmaker’s iconic chest of drawers attests to the Victorian "Boulle revival". Sarcophagus chest of drawers signed "Blake London", Louis XIV style after the model by André-Charles Boulle, c.1850, brass and brown tortoiseshell marquetry, chased and gilded bronze ornamentation, Campan marble top, 88 x…

    When Blake an English Cabinetmaker Imitated Boulle
  • Auction Industry

    Cowan's offers largest and most important Western Pennsylvania stoneware collection in decades

    A cobalt double eagle-decorated Pennsylvania ten gallon crock (Lot 112) with a presale estimate of $2,000 - $3,000. CINCINNATI, OH.-Cowan's Auctions will offer a selection of property from the Estate of Louis Hahn, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania in a two-day auction that will feature over 800 lots. Session I will be held…

    Cowans offers largest and most important Western Pennsylvania stoneware collection in decades
  • Auction Industry

    Five For Friday: Nadeau’s Auction Gallery Steers Us Across Categories

    New Hampshire License Plate, 1905. Photo courtesy of Nadeau’s Auction Gallery. Buckle up your seatbelts! Nadeau's Auction Gallery of Windsor, Connecticut, is holding its annual Fall Americana, Folk Art, Chinese & Fine Art Auction on Saturday, October 24th. This event kicks off with two classic automobiles and presents collectors with…

    Five For Friday Nadeaus Auction Gallery Steers Us Across Categories1
  • Auction Industry, Press Release

    Ready, aim, fire! Soulis Auctions presents Richard and Valerie Tucker reference-book collection of antique cast-iron shooting gallery targets, Sept. 26

    Regarded as the ultimate collection of its type, the Tuckers’ 30-year assemblage of ‘Iron as Art’ includes many one-of-a-kind and very rare forms from late-19th/early 20th-century arcades Large 19th-century decorated mustard-paint apothecary chest, 57 x 46in. Estimate $1,500-$2,500 LONE JACK, Mo. – Ping! Bam! Clang! Those are the ear-piercing sounds…

    Ready, aim, fire! Soulis Auctions presents Richard and Valerie Tucker reference-book collection of antique cast-iron shooting gallery targets, Sept. 26
  • Auction Industry

    Michaan’s to Offer Natural Sri Lankan Color-Change Sapphire Ring

    Michaan’s to Offer Natural Sri Lankan Color-Change Sapphire Ring; Pair of Maruni Oak-Frame Folding Chairs in August 22 Gallery Auction. ALAMEDA, CA, USA, August 14, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Press Office Contact!Talesa Eugenio(510) 740-0220 x 116Auction:Gallery AuctionSaturday August 22, 2020 at 10amLocation:Michaan’s Auctions2751 Todd StreetAlameda, CA 94501 Michaan’s to Offer Natural…

    Michaans to Offer Natural Sri Lankan Color-Change Sapphire Ring
  • Auction Result

    Excellent results for the first live auctions at Koller since the lockdown

    A view by Max Liebermann of his garden at Wannsee (lot 3115) nearly doubled its pre-sale estimate to sell for CHF 488 000. ZURICH.- With the saleroom often filled to post-covid capacity, and extremely active telephone and Internet bidding, Koller's Old Masters & Antiques auction week was a resounding success. The auctions, initially…

    Excellent results for the first live auctions at Koller since the lockdown