Rago stages 3rd design auction of the year, Oct. 1-2LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its third auction of 20th Century Design for the year on Saturday, Oct.1, and Sunday, Oct. 2, at noon Eastern. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding. Included among the more than 950 lots are rare vessels and artwork descended from Susan Frackelton’s family; a fine […]
Esherick chair tops $100,000 at Rago’s 20th century design auctionLAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center reports strong results at its 20th Century Design auction Feb. 4-5. Friday’s session of Early 20th Century Design totaled $1.56 million in sales with 88 percent of the lots selling. Saturday’s session of 20th-21st Century Design totaled $2.8 million with 79 percent of the lots selling. Both […]
Top designers represented by works in Rago auction Feb. 4-5LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – Rago Arts and Auction Center will conduct an auction of 20th-Century Decorative Arts and Furnishings Friday and Saturday, Feb. 4-5, beginning at noon Eastern, both days. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding. The sale includes approximately 1,200 high-end pieces from private collections accepted from the United States and abroad. Included are early […]
Kovels – Antiques & Collecting: Week of June 7, 2010The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London included the introduction of many amazing new products, one of them the revival of majolica. In the 19th century, Italian pottery of the Renaissance era was being studied and collected by English museums. England’s Minton factory made a copy of the old designs and glazed them in a […]