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Fine Art, Fashion and Foppishness: Ceramics of the Aesthetic Movement

Never in the history of English art and fashion have ceramics been as important as they were to the Aesthetic Movement. Aestheticism was the most prominent movement in the fine and applied arts of the late nineteenth century and one of its great events was the exhibition of Sir Herbert Thompson's Read more [...]

A Rich Artistic Legacy in Paris

While it is true that Paris is best known for the Eiffel Tower and the Mona Lisa, not to mention Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides, it also happens to boast one of the largest public collections of Jewish art and religious artifacts in Western Europe, as well as a stunning house museum owned by a little-known Read more [...]

The Ardabil Carpet: a 16th century masterpiece conserved

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, owns one of the most famous carpets in the world, the Ardabil Carpet. This sixteenth-century masterpiece in silk and wool is one of the most important works in LACMA's collection. The carpet is being displayed from 22 January until 11 May 2004, for the first Read more [...]

Australian Silver Online Valuations & Appraisals

The maker's mark of a silversmith on a silver object enables a collector to identify with confidence the actual maker of the object, just as with a painter's signature on a painting. Unlike the painter's signature, which can appear distinctly for all to see, the silversmith's mark is usually discreet: Read more [...]

Porcelain Brooches Online Valuations & Appraisals

Miniatures hand-painted on porcelain blanks have been recognised as a specialised area of European art and some overseas work mounted as brooches has been collected in Australia. Astute collectors are now seeking out similar items hand-painted in Australia. Of particular interest are small porcelain Read more [...]

Chinese Antiques Online Valuations & Appraisals

I have been collecting Chinese paintings since I moved to Hong Kong in the mid 1980s. First Sotheby's and then Christie's opened up small offices in the Central business district and started holding auctions in the downtown hotels. There were a number of galleries and antique dealers in Hollywood Road Read more [...]

Vincent Van Gogh

Today, Van Gogh's paintings fetch ludicrous prices at auction and yet during his lifetime he would have been happy to give his pictures away. The public regarded his work as strange and wayward and legend has it that he sold only one painting during his lifetime, 'The red vineyard', now in the Pushkin Read more [...]

Probate Valuations Thornaby-On-Tees – Teesside

We offer probate valuation service in all Teesside areas including – Stillington Redcar Hartlepool Cleveland Trimdon Station Long Newton Seamer ITG Provide probate valuations in accordance with HMRC guidelines. Probate valuation reports will be prepared within 5 days of our valuer’s visit Read more [...]

Probate Valuations Stockton-On-Tees – Teesside

We offer probate valuation service in all Teesside areas including – Hinderwell Loftus Long Newton Middlesbrough Moorsholm Norton Nunthorpe Redcar Seamer Skelton In Cleveland Skinningrove Slapewath Stainton Staithes Stillington Stokesley ITG Provide probate valuations in accordance with HMRC guidelines. Probate Read more [...]

Probate Valuations Redcar – Teesside

We offer probate valuation service in all Teesside areas including – Middlesbrough Moorsholm Norton Nunthorpe Redcar Seamer Skelton In Cleveland Skinningrove Slapewath Stainton Staithes Stillington Stockton On Tees Stokesley ITG Provide probate valuations in accordance with HMRC guidelines. Probate Read more [...]