Porcelain Games

1950s Chevrolet ‘OK’ Used Cars Single-sided Porcelain Neon Sign MASSILON, OH – Beginning in the 1920s, the Chevrolet division of General Motors began using a stylized ‘OK’ script sign to market dealers’ used car inventories. The ‘OK’ branding ensured all used cars were ‘six ways better’: Thoroughly Inspected Reconditioned for Safety Reconditioned for Performance Reconditioned […]

LONDON, UK — At the third time of asking, an enigmatic Elizabethan style silver and porcelain goblet carries an estimate of £6,000-£8,000 ($7,700-$10,000) at Chiswick Auctions on June 11. The so-called de Pinna cup, cataloged as dating from circa 1580-1600, appears at auction following an examination by a committee of experts and two episodes of […]

PARIS — The first part of one of the finest assemblages of 18th-century Meissen porcelain figures still in private hands generated a premium-inclusive €948,450 ($1,010,480) at Bonhams on April 17. A total of 44 of the 55 lots from the collection formed by German businessman Hadrian Maria Oskar Merkle (1942-2018) were sold. The auction results […]