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5 Hot Lots Coming to Auction in October

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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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Ancient Egyptian Amulets: Spiritual Symbols in Art and Jewelry

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Sold for 4,600 GBP via Apollo Art Auctions (December 2024). Sold for 2,000 GBP via Apollo Art Auction s (January 2022). Sold 300 GBP via Apollo Art Auctions (December 2024). Amulets and the Afterlife: A Symbolic Journey Rare / Fine Egyptian Faience Pendant Isis Knot. Huge Egyptian Faience Wedjat-Eye Amulet.

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Enveloping Beauty: The History and Art of Framing

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We rarely notice them, yet they shape how we see the art they enclose. Frames are the unsung storytellers of the art world – silent yet essential. In addition to some splendid historical examples, well also break down the materials and methods that go into these works of art all their own. Sold for $750 USD via Jeffrey S.

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Frasier Crane and the Art of Interior Design

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The leather and steel deconstructed club chair looked like an abstract piece of art that had its roots in the Bauhaus principle of form and function, but then again Martins chair had a reclining feature, so 1961 Ebony Model M Steinway Piano. Sold for$8,000 via William Smith Auctions (June 2021).

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The Aesthetic Movement: Beauty For Beauty’s Sake

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful William Morris, 1880 And they did this by focusing on producing beautiful art devoid of any other meaning. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Decadence was the order of the day.

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How Meissen is Leading a Kitsch Revival into 2025

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The limited-edition figurine was an unlikely fusion of the urban New York-based brand with the artisanal expertise of Europes oldest porcelain manufactory, and sold for three times its low end estimate when it appeared at Christies in December 2021. Sold for $6,000 USD via Christie’s (December 2021).