Porcelain Vending Machines

SUDBURY, MA — The biannual offering of Chinese, Japanese and Indian works of art at Tremont Auctions on June 30 was dominated by the multi-estimate performance of a single lot. A small porcelain incense box and cover decorated with butterflies and flower and carrying a Yongzheng (1722-1735) four-character seal mark shot to $320,000 ($406,400 with […]

1930s Pepsi Pete the Cop Double-sided Porcelain Sign, $34,440 WATERLOO, IA — Found in a Pennsylvania warehouse, this 1930s-era Pepsi-Cola double-sided porcelain sign features Pepsi’s double-dot logo and ‘Pepsi Pete the Cop,’ a short-lived advertising character. Rich Penn Auctions brought the sign, which at some point was mounted to a later bottle-cap raised-letter base, to […]

MORETON-IN-MARSH, UK — A pair of mid-18th-century Vincennes porcelain candleholders of distinctive conical form that were discovered in a Warwickshire, England property during the course of a routine valuation sold for a total of $170,560 at auction on May 24. Offered at a sale held by Kinghams, the 4.25in-tall soft paste candleholders (here and here) […]