CINCINNATI – Art pottery auctioneers Humler & Nolan will offer nearly 500 lots in their Keramics, Art Glass and Fine Art 2018 event on Saturday, June 9, and follow it up with their even bigger Rookwood XXVIII auction on Sunday, June 10. Featured in Saturday’s Keramics auction is a 1905 Van Briggle “Despondency” vase done in a slightly crystalline deep green mat glaze. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available for both sales through LiveAuctioneers.
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The San Francisco Bay Area was already home to many great fortunes and fine estates back when Los Angeles had nothing going for it but a railroad station and an army of oil derricks. Today the Bay Area is a premier American design center at the intersection of innovation, wealth and taste. Michaan’s Auctions, the full-service auction house in the heart of the region, offers an array of choice lots in the Gallery Auction on June 9. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
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NEW YORK – In an auction that features a collection of both elaborate Buddhist statues and important paintings by traditional and contemporary Chinese masters, a selection of archetypal ceramics and early bronzes add unusual depth. The properties go off on June 9 at Gianguan Auctions at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) – Georgia O’Keeffe, famous for her desert paintings, created equally stunning — though lesser known — pieces inspired by a 1939 trip to Hawaii. The works, and a display of the plants she would have encountered there, are now on view at the New York Botanical Garden.
LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. – On Saturday, June 9, Rago Auctions will offer more than 40 investment quality collectibles across a wide swathe of interests: sports collectibles and cards, historical and political memorabilia, aerospace memorabilia, vintage movie posters, fountain pens, and weapons and militaria, culminating with a 1793 Treasury Letter penned and signed by Alexander Hamilton. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK – Vintage and antique pieces mingle beautifully in a Premium Jewelry Auction that will be conducted Tuesday, June 5, by Jasper52. Colorful cocktail rings, storied mourning jewelry and even an iconic Hammerman Brothers vintage starfish brooch are prime examples of the diversity celebrated in this special sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.