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The Enduring Significance of Chinese Bronzes: Exploring Their Journey from the Orient

Antique Appraisers Auctioneers

When considering purchasing Chinese antique furniture or sculptures, it is common to receive an authenticity certificate either at the time of purchase or by request. These certificates not only provide assurance of the item’s authenticity but can also assist in minimizing import duty costs.

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Evaluating Your Collection

Penrose Appraisals

Matchbox cars, Star Wars figurines, flow blue ceramics, etc, etc. This is the goal of connoisseurship - to identify and separate something that is superior to its lookalikes, no matter what the category: needlework, wine, cars, teapots, or furniture. Rather, color can be an important indicator of age or authenticity. Condition.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

Invaluable

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Elaborate cedar or maple carvings, for example, or ceramic vessels underscore the trend in the field to focus on media that allow the expertise of the maker’s hand to shine.

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American Folk Art: Celebrating the Creativity and Craftsmanship of Everyday Artisans 

Invaluable

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Elaborate cedar or maple carvings, for example, or ceramic vessels underscore the trend in the field to focus on media that allow the expertise of the maker’s hand to shine.

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Art Deco Is the Cat’s Meow in 2025

WorthPoint

Art deco furniture, including case pieces, side tables, and nightstands, will be popular this year, like this attractive waterfall nightstand (or end table) from the 1930s. 4 market trend: These dealers reported strong sales for traditional furniture and case pieces over smaller collectibles like clocks, lamps, and jewelry.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Circus Calliope Wagon, Gaming Magazines

WorthPoint

Rothenbusch holds a special place in the world of Rookwood, the oldest ongoing ceramic producer in the U.S., This piece, signed in the lower right corner with a secondary signature on the reverse, features a soft vellum pastel landscape over ceramic. dating back to the mid-1800s in Cincinnati.

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Assets 2025: Interview with Tom Kline

International Society of Appraisers

In the mid-1990s, I represented the plaintiffs in the first Holocaust-related art recovery case since the immediate post-War period and I eventually branched out to prosecuting and defending ownership claims and also handling authenticity issues, breach of contract and other market-related matters. AC : Yes, that makes sense.