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5 Tips for Valuing Antiques

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These may include imagery, goldsmithing and painting or even more modern items such as automobiles, collectibles or residential contents. Keeping track of this information helps appraisers immensely, since the origin may give us most of the information about the manufacture of the piece, materials, etc.

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Mesoamerican Marvels: Art and Architecture of the Aztec and Mayan Civilizations 

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Meanwhile, painted murals often illustrated regal and mythological narratives via similarly stylized imagery and hieroglyphics, the pictographic language of the Mayan people. Often relief carving combined with paints, like in the lintel reliefs from the Mayan city of Yaxchilán , to further amplify these narrative details.

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Choosing an Appraiser—Essential Questions to Ask: Part I

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You just moved across the country and your favorite painting arrived with a gash through the canvas. You can search by location or by type of material to be appraised. Residential Contents appraisers routinely handle all the furniture, rugs and decorative items that are normally encountered in a home.

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Exploring Brazilian Modernism: A Fusion of Tradition and Innovation

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This painting became the banner for the art movement, which absorbed and transformed foreign influences, and cannibalized them into something singularly Brazilian. The piece of furniture is not just the shape, not just the material which is made but also something inside it. It’s the piece’s spirit.