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A three-hundred-year-old vase that was discovered in a private home in Aubange (Belgium), near Rodange, sold on Sunday in the north of Luxembourg for €78,000. It is the stuff of fantasy. Discovered by chance by an auctioneer in a private home in Aubange, Belgium, a few hundred metres from Rodange, the vase was auctioned last weekend for the sum of €78,000 at Goldfield Auction, located in Weiswampach. “I had been called to this house by its owners. They wanted to have some of their property appraised. And in the living room, I saw this vase that was presented like so many others and that they didn t really want to ask me to appraise,” explains Raphaël Remy, the Belgian auctioneer of the Luxembourg auction house. Very interested in Chinese porcelain, the 42-year-old former antiques dealer spotted it on his own and appraised it as dating from the 18th century. ....
Wendy Teakel, “Earth Basket IV” 2020, wood, sisal, rusted wire, paint, pastel. Photo: David Paterson. Craft / “Intersections”. Janet DeBoos and Wendy Teakel. At Craft ACT Craft + Design Centre, Civic. Until March 20. Reviewed by MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE. LANDSCAPE is a well-travelled subject for artists, all artists approach it uniquely and reveal an unseen aspect. Two senior female artists participated in an excursion on the Bundian Way. Their discussions along the way led them to working together to draw on their appreciation of the landscape and to this exhibition. Their starting point was a book titled “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” by Rebecca Solnit, a metaphor for going into the unknown, into the dark: of letting go and losing oneself. ....
Diana hits her mark in Keno Auctions $930,470 curated sale Augustus Saint Gaudens (American, 1848-1907), Diana of the Tower Bronze. H. 38 ⅞ in. NEW YORK, NY .- Among the various auctions of fine and decorative arts in New York held during Americana Week, Keno Auctions attained the highest price for any lot sold. On January 23rd, an iconic bronze sculpture of Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) soared past its estimate of $200-400,000, selling for $506,000 (including BP). Purchased by a young New York couple, it is the fifth highest price at auction for any work by Saint-Gaudens. Recently discovered by Keno, the sculpture was on display at the Glascow Arms Restaurant in Delaware since its purchase by restaurant owner and collector, Constantine Sclavos in 1959. ....
Forget 1939, Imperial Japan Almost Started World War II in 1937 The prospect of war with Japan and the possibility of abandoning China both gained some public traction following the attack and its resulting publicity. Here s What You Need to Remember: It was rogue Japanese officers who were behind the attack, not the Japanese government. The chaos spawned by the Japanese attack of Nanking may have provided what those elements considered an opportunity to further their own aims. They almost succeeded. In December 1937, four years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into the war, Japanese planes attacked an American gunboat, the USS Panay, on China’s Yangtze River, strafing and bombing the boat, sinking it, killing three American crew members, and the wounding 45 others. ....