Invaluable

APRIL 22, 2024

Sold for £1,500 GBP via Sworders (June 2023). For instance, when her husband-to-be, Prince Albert , gifted her an emerald-set snake engagement ring, it initiated a country-wide trend of wearing a snake motif as a symbol of eternal love. Sold for $30 USD via Old Kinderhook Auction Company (December 2023). Auctioneers (May 2023).

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

In his work for them, he discovered that a petroleum-based waste product called polyethylene slag could be purified from its original smelly, greasy consistency into a translucent, plastic solid material perfect for cups, bowls, and food storage items. In 2023, the company announced a cash crunch , and stock prices plummeted.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Often made of luxurious materials like gold, ivory, and silver, they were elaborately embellished with gems, pearls, enamels, hand paintings , and other fancy decorations; many jewelry artisans, including Tiffany, also designed their own line. This blue and white piece decorated with a dragon from the Kangxi Period sold in 2023 for $1,136.

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APRIL 1, 2025

The most common subject of these paintings was a young woman in fashionable attire, sometimes enjoying the promoted product. Her image appeared on many advertising materials, from signs to calendars to trays. In 2023, a 1903 tray with a painting of Clark went for over $4,000.

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Invaluable

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Creating paints from raw pigments was a difficult and time-consuming process, and the resulting materials—especially oil paints—were cumbersome and not easily transported. Sold for €8,000 EUR via Dorotheum (October 2023). Eschewing the prevailing trend for wild, exaggerated ruins and landscapes, Constable found wonder in the everyday.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Buildings like Oxford and Glasgow Universities in the UK provided the ornate template that stood in defiant and decorative resistance to the precision of machined materials and these buildings required appropriately ornate and decorative furnishings. FRENCH GOTHIC REVIVAL VELVET PRIE-DIEU KNEELER.

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