Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
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English cameo glass stars at $260,000 in Kansas
23 June 2014English cameo glass was the star of the show at Woody Auction’s second dispersal from the collection of Dr Ernest and Karin Rieger held in Wichita, Kansas.
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Earliest dated Vermeer expected to fetch £6m-8m
17 June 2014The earliest dated picture by the 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), one of only two works by the artist left in private hands, will be a highlight of Christie’s Old Masters auction in London next month.
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€900,000 – the price on emperor’s head
20 May 2014An ancient Roman marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian that had been in the same private collection for over half a century was the runaway highlight in a recent sale held by Tessier Sarrou & Associés at Drouot in Paris.
Netsuke bonanza at Cologne saleroom
12 May 2014In a series of sales to be spread over the coming years, Cologne auctioneers Lempertz are selling netsuke from the Kolodotschko collection.
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Sculptor to the Medici emerges as the hand behind ‘German’ ewer
28 April 2014A very hefty price for a Baroque work of art emerged recently at the Drouot auction centre.
Huge cache of Arts and Crafts wares emerge from bank vault
28 April 2014A massive cache of British Arts and Crafts metalware and ceramics stored in a bank for over 25 years will be sold by Bonhams through their forthcoming decorative arts auctions.
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Scandinavian style, exclusive design
14 April 2014The uncompromising Danish furniture designer/carpenter Peder Moos (1906-91) carefully hand-crafted virtually all his distinctive furniture.
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Babylonian cylinder sealed at $500,000
14 April 2014The star entry in the latest sale of rare books, autographs and manuscripts at Doyle in New York proved to be an example of one of the most ancient forms of writing.
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Chicken cup sets new record at £21.5m
14 April 2014A new auction high for Chinese porcelain was set last week when Sotheby’s sold a tiny Chenghua period ‘chicken cup’ for a hammer price of HK$250m (£21.5m) as part of their latest Hong Kong sale series.
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Winter Olympic gold – torches scoop top prices
17 February 2014Like those London buses where you wait forever then two come along at once, two versions of a rare Olympic torch limited to just 33 examples turned up in separate Drouot auctions in Paris within the space of just ten days.
Piasa move to bigger headquarters in Paris
14 February 2014Paris auction house Piasa will move this spring to a new location at 118 rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, the prestigious Right Bank shopping street, home to art and antiques galleries and to Sotheby’s Paris.
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French cabinet at Copenhagen auction
11 February 2014This 19th century French ormolu-mounted boulle side cabinet is attributed to the Paris-based ébéniste-marqueteur Mathieu Befort (1813-80).