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Why Provenance is Paramount

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Why Provenance is Paramount As the holiday season approaches with calendars full of significant auctions and art fairs, you’re probably finding your inbox filled with emails reflecting on the sales trends expected to shape the market in the coming year. Allen, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection.

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Types of Chinese Art: A Guide to Valuing & Collecting Chinese Art

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In our experience, items with the most provenance are most sought after.” While age might leave artifacts fragile or damaged, time has also embellished Chinese works of art with enduring beauty and relevancy. Sold for ¥1,500,000 JPY via Tomikai Auction (Oct 2023). Sold for $340,000 USD via Bonhams (Dec 2023).

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WorthPoint Indices: Lobby Cards

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It was sold on eBay for $10,995 in April 2023. Values depend on age, artwork, quality, and popularity of the movies or actors they depict. percent increase in transactions from 2020 through 2023. Prices since 2020 have ranged between $1 for single cards to $30,000 for a lot of seven from various movies that sold in March 2023.

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Sculpting the Divine: Exploring Religious Statues and Sculptures 

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Sold for $5,000 USD via Eternity Gallery (February 2023). Sold for $2,200 USD via Eternity Gallery (September 2023). More certainty comes with the role of religious statues by the time of the Bronze Age when major cultural centers from ancient Sumer to ancient Egypt exhibited richly complex pantheons of deities and devotional practice.

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Ming vs Qing Dynasty Art and Antiques

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Sold for $85,618,000HKD via Sotheby’s (October 2023). The exceptionally varied artistic production of this golden age of Chinese culture, from ceramics to painting and calligraphy can be separated between the two dynasties that share distinct characteristics and artistic achievements that evolved Chinese cultural heritage.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Narwhal Tusk, Mackenzie-Childs

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On March 6, 2023, WorthPoint added 502,766 items to its Price Guide, totaling $30,816,118.33with an average lot price of $61.29. And while this tusk did have a minor repair to the tip, you wouldn’t know it unless you were inspecting it under blacklight, a faint reminder of its age and history.

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Metal Masterworks: The History and Techniques of Bronze Sculpture

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These works, which have endured over the ages and have been cast for reasons from royal to religious to revolutionary, continue to captivate contemporary artists and collectors. Sold for $28,485,000 USD via Sotheby’s (May 2023). Statue of Marco Aurelio Musei Capitolini. Image via Wikimedia Commons.