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Great Discoveries: 1700s Glass Bottles Found at Mount Vernon

WorthPoint

The sealed bottles contained liquid and were found upright. In 2023, a privately funded Mansion Revitalization Project at Mount Vernon began. After the discovery, the bottles were transported to the Mount Vernon archaeology lab, where the liquid contents were removed. The bottles are being sent for conservation this month.

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Have we reached peak painting?

The Art Newspaper

This follows the first work in that series, Poor Folk I , which had a presale estimate of £60,000-£80,000, selling for £558,500 ($686,600) in October 2023—roughly half a million pounds more than was expected. It’s so close and fleshy and physical and drippy and liquid and unwieldy and leaky. The numbers bear that out.

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Anxious collectors are increasingly turning to freeport havens, experts say

The Art Newspaper

The regulation, Gouin says, will result in restricted supply as sellers “retreat to friendlier jurisdictions, freezing liquidity in Europe”. The names are essentially always the same: Geneva, Luxembourg and Singapore freeports, or bonded warehouses in the UK.”

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