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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

International Society of Appraisers

Scandinavian furniture continues to be popular with its fresh-washed colors, clean lines, and good quality, especially in this era focused on sustainability. Items such as folk art, unique and creative paintings, hand-blown Venetian glass, delft style ceramic tiles, handmade vases, and quilts are splashed throughout interiors.

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

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Sculptures Chinese sculptures, like paintings, depict many things such as people, animals, mythical creatures, Buddha, and more. Collectors all over the world are particularly interested in the use of jade in sculpture. Prices can vary extensively, with quality jadeite generally carrying more value than nephrite.

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ALFayez at Alfies Antiques

Grays Antiques

Friday 1 June 2018 saw Alfies Antique Market launch AlFayez, a new department showcasing antiquities and museum worthy pieces to textiles, ceramics and jewellery from more than 25 professional Middle Eastern antique dealers previously based in the Mews at Grays Antiques.

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Marina Oriental Art : The Dealer Behind The Objects

Grays Antiques

At the same time there’s huge variety in terms of materials used because it encompasses art work from every field; bronze sculpture, miniatures like netsuke and inro, metalwork, armour, lacquer, ceramics, silver, porcelain and enamel objects. I admire the creativity and quality of Meiji art.

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A Glass Painter’s Goblet – A Rare 19th Century Discovery

Mark Hill

It’s not my usual sort of thing at all, but it’s made from and connected to glass, the quality shouted out, and there’s clearly a story behind it. Bildwerd is correctly spelt Bildwerk , as in ‘picture work’, although bildwerk can also mean sculpture. I had to have it! Unde should really be und (and).

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Ming vs Qing Dynasty Art and Antiques

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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. Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (r.1402–1424)

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

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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. Southern folk pottery emerged from a Southern melting point of ceramic production that included traditions from Europe, Africa, and indigenous America.