2021 Age Antiques and Decorative Arts 
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JUNE 12, 2025
This nighttime scene shares a subject with a daylight version sold by Voght in 2021, though this one nearly doubled the price of that earlier sale. The presence of multiple key Silver Age issues suggests Ewbank’s landed a significant private collection. The standout piece was Moulin de la Galette en la Neige , which brought in $25,960.
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JUNE 27, 2025
Since the Victorians elevated mourning to an art form, I readily believed it and was captivated by the thought that the bottles were used to capture sorrow. I can’t remember a time when something in the antiques and collectibles world disappointed me more than that news. I’m sorry to say these are not romantic mourning keepsakes.
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JUNE 24, 2025
Though many people only wear hair combs for special occasions like proms and weddings, women once commonly wore these decorative objects as a regular part of their daily attire. Collectors also prize antique and vintage hair combs today for their beauty, history, and for their stylish way of securing coiffures.
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APRIL 3, 2024
Chinese art, with varieties as expansive as its history is long, is among both the most daunting and rewarding of categories to begin collecting. As China becomes a more powerful force in the world, more and more people have become interested in Chinese antiques,” says John Schofield, head of the Asian Arts Department at Eldred’s. “In
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OCTOBER 4, 2024
To hold their kimonos in place and be able to tote essential items, men hung decorative inro (small cases) that were suspended from their kimonos’ waist sashes. The two-gallon crock is decorated with a horse in cobalt blue and is salt-glazed, one of the hallmarks of antique stoneware.
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MAY 29, 2024
Taxidermy is an art absolutely essential to be known to every naturalist since, without it, he cannot pursue his studies or preserve his own materials” British zoologist William Swainson in his 1840 Treatise on Taxidermy Walter Potter – Kittens’ Tea & Croquet Party. And so the art of taxidermy was born… and then embalmed.
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APRIL 24, 2024
The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.
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