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NEW ORLEANS – Crescent City’s two-day Important Summer Estates Auction, slated for Friday and Saturday, July 15 and 16, will be packed with nearly 900 lots of French, English and American furniture, original paintings by noted regional artists, French clocks, bronzes and porcelain. The sessions will start at 10 am Central time both days. Absentee and Internet […]
What is “cold-painted bronze”? The term is used online to describe colorful bronze or spelter figures, but almost no one explains what it means. One online forum offers dozens of answers, all wrong, because the bloggers are contemporary artists familiar with a modern process called “cold patina.” The artist covers the metal with chemicals like […]
Electric lamps with glass shades were popular from the 1870s to the 1920s. Unlike a candle flame, a lightbulb could face down and was not too hot for a shade with a closed top, making the use of glass shades possible. And as up-to-date, unusual and attractive objects, glass-shaded lamps became expensive status symbols. It […]