Peggy and David Rockefeller collected and regularly used scores of antique porcelain dinner services. Ceramics specialist Carleigh Queenth and Rockefeller family historian Peter Johnson select their favourites.
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Journey from Ancient Greece to 19th century Africa with sculptures from the collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet. Together, these pieces form a compelling vision of beauty from disparate cultures across centuries and continents. Examples include a Roman Bronze figure of Heracles, a Tahitian figure from a flywisk, and an iconic ancestral Fang statue from the Master of Ntem. The Shape of Beauty: Sculpture from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet will be offered on 14 May.
Bonhams is delighted to offer an exceptional selection of Chinese ceramics and works of art, for sale on 17 May 2018 at New Bond St, London. The highlights include rare works of art ranging from archaic bronzes, early ceramics and later porcelain, Buddhist stone sculptures, Buddhist and Daoist bronze figures to jade, Imperial silk textiles, Imperial lacquer wares and coromandel screens. Many of the objects boast important collection provenance, including from a Royal Collection, Lord Cunliffe, Marchese and Marchesa Taliani di Marchio, Marquesa de Sotomayor y Condesa de Alba Real, C.T.
Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe and Dr. Beth Harris discuss the attribution of the Met's Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E.
The palace of Versailles has attracted travelers since it was transformed under the direction of the Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715), from a simple hunting lodge into one of the most magnificent public courts of Europe. French and foreign travelers, royalty, dignitaries and ambassadors, artists, musicians, writers and philosophers, scientists, Grand Tourists and day-trippers alike, all flocked to the majestic royal palace surrounded by its extensive formal gardens.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery opens its new location at 1711 West Chicago Avenue with Judy Ledgerwood’s fifth solo gallery exhibition "Far From the Tree." Featuring bright colors and repetitive patterns inspired by quilting and other decorative arts, Ledgerwood subverts the viewer’s expectations of abstract painting with unexpected color combinations and tactile globs of paint that bleed from one section into another.
DALLAS, Texas (April 10, 2018) — A stunning tea and coffee service is expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction April 25 in Dallas, Texas.
The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present an installation of 16 pieces of American studio jewelry from the 1930s to the present day, a promised gift of Toni Wolf Greenbaum. Greenbaum is a New York–based art historian specializing in 20th- and 21st-century jewelry and metalwork. She is the author of "Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry, 1940–1960" and is currently writing a monograph on modernist jeweler Sam Kramer. Greenbaum has lectured internationally and has curated exhibitions for several museums.
