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• Paeng-damaged infra in Antique validated for possible funding - pna.gov.ph

  08-06-2023 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  Paeng-damaged infra in Antique validated for possible funding  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Mechanization program to increase rice production in Antique - pna.gov.ph

  08-06-2023 13:58 via news.google.com
  
  Mechanization program to increase rice production in Antique  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Ballistics expert shows murder trial jury how antique revolver works - Peeblesshire News

  08-06-2023 13:05 via news.google.com
  
  Ballistics expert shows murder trial jury how antique revolver works  Peeblesshire News
  
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• Henderson County News: Antique & Vintage Show coming to Main ... - Hendersonville Lightning

  07-06-2023 22:42 via news.google.com
  
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• Antique & Classic Boat Show features 'Ezduzit' | Entertainment ... - Mountain News

  07-06-2023 21:39 via news.google.com
  
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• Sunday At The Bruce With Crafts Festival

  07-06-2023 18:25 via antiquesandthearts.com
  GREENWICH, CONN. — Contemporary handmade crafts were the order of the day on May 20-21 as the newly expanded Bruce Museum hosted the 38th Outdoor Crafts Festival, a juried show featuring 55 exhibitors each day from 10 am to 4 pm. Managed by the indefatigable Sue Brown Gordon, with white tents lining the museum’s drive and parking area, the event’s first day was somewhat of a washout as rains pummeled throughout the day. Sunday, however, dawned gloriously sunny and exhibiting ar
  
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• Fine & Folk Art Flourish At Schwenke

  07-06-2023 18:24 via antiquesandthearts.com
  WOODBURY, CONN. — Schwenke Auctioneers conducted the sale of the Estate of Muriel Gantz & Other Fine Estates on May 23. Gantz and her pre-deceased husband made their home in Greenwich, Conn., and were known for their American art collection, which they began in the 1960s. Out of over 650 lots, 280 came from the Gantz estate, including fine American and English formal and country furniture and decor, fine European porcelain, fine art and folk art, early brass and a carefully selected co
  
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• Silver & ‘Ice’ Lead Kodner Auction

  07-06-2023 18:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DANIA BEACH, FLA. — Of the Estate Jewelry, Art & Collectibles Auction on May 24, Kevin Patrick Taylor, general manager, head of cataloging and research at Kodner Galleries, said, “We had a good auction last night, selling a very high percentage. Both silver items and jewelry did particularly well.” The sale was led by a GIA 14.30-carat yellow diamond and 18K ring, which sold a bit below estimate at $139,150.The post Silver & ‘Ice’ Lead Kodner Auction first a
  
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• Antiques From Across New England Gather At D.L. Straight Auction

  07-06-2023 18:21 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  STURBRIDGE, MASS. — A very full sale of estate Americana and country items was in store for bidders in David Straight’s Memorial Weekend auction on May 27. Estate-fresh antiques from all across New England came to the podium with all periods of Americana being represented. There were Pilgrim period furnishings, Queen Anne pieces, Chippendale furniture, plus a collection of tea caddies that include multiple tortoiseshell and inlaid examples. Double sailor shell valentines came togethe
  
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• Heritage Pursues The Beauty Of Art Nouveau, Art Deco

  07-06-2023 18:19 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — Heritage Auctions’ “Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass Signature Auction” achieved $1,274,075 with 461 lots offered in two sessions, a live floor sale with phone and in-person bidding, as well as online or absentee that began the morning of May 25; an online-only session of 149 lots followed that evening with just absentee or online bids accepted.The post Heritage Pursues The Beauty Of Art Nouveau, Art Deco first appeared on Antiques And The
  
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• Q&A: Richard Klein

  07-06-2023 18:18 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  In 2022, curator Richard Klein announced that after 30 years he would be leaving the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., which honored him during its Spring Gala on April 29. Antiques and The Arts Weekly took the opportunity to reach out to ask him to briefly reminisce on his long tenure and give us a glimpse of what life ahead looks like.The post Q&A: Richard Klein first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• The Cultures Of Seaweed: A Singular Marine & Fabulous Produce

  07-06-2023 18:17 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW BEDFORD, MASS. — While seaweed in cultural cuisine has become a delicious standard, at first thought seaweed and art seem an ocean apart. But thinking on it, more and more examples come to mind. The New Bedford Whaling Museum has gathered the most lively art and artifacts based on the subject in the Wattles Gallery for a new exhibition, “A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: the Cultures of Seaweed” that will be on view from June 16 to December 3.The post The Cultures
  
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• 100 Antique child laborers receive educational assistance - pna.gov.ph

  07-06-2023 14:18 via news.google.com
  
  100 Antique child laborers receive educational assistance  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Heritage Hosts Feast Of Ethnographic Art

  06-06-2023 15:00 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — On June 2, Heritage Auctions brought almost 400 lots to the block of the Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Signature auction. Bumbling up to the top of the sale was a hardwood feast bowl in the shape of a sow from the Santa Cruz islands, one of only three known to exist. The other two are owned by museums in New Zealand and Australia. Made in the Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century, it was “field collected” in the 1920s by the manager of th
  
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• BFP personnel in Antique test negative for illegal drugs - pna.gov.ph

  06-06-2023 14:17 via news.google.com
  
  BFP personnel in Antique test negative for illegal drugs  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique farm school to get new classroom building - pna.gov.ph

  06-06-2023 13:10 via news.google.com
  
  Antique farm school to get new classroom building  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique Outboard Motor Swap Meet held Saturday in Tupper Lake ... - The Adirondack Daily Enterprise

  06-06-2023 06:06 via news.google.com
  
  Antique Outboard Motor Swap Meet held Saturday in Tupper Lake ...  The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
  
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• Israel bombed this Gaza house, turning antique collection to dust - Al Jazeera English

  05-06-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
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• Folk Art Was Fabulous For Amelia Jeffers

  05-06-2023 16:09 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  COLUMBUS, OHIO — Amelia Jeffers, who launched her eponymous auction house in November 2019, conducted a two-day sale May 25-26, with 339 lots of coins and jewelry on the first day, and another 381 opportunities for buyers of antiques, art and collectibles. A high flyer at the sale led a strong folk art section and was a pair of monumental carved stone figures by Ohio carver Ernest “Popeye” Reed, which sold to a collector in Pennsylvania, for $8,400, beating the lot’s est
  
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• First Rate Sails Sell At Americana Auctions

  05-06-2023 16:07 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  REHOBOTH, MASS. — Americana Auctions brought more than 500 lots to its Excellent June Estates Auction on June 4, consigned from homes and estates in southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the Islands, Connecticut and Long Island, N.Y. Perhaps unsurprisingly, nautical items were popular among bidders. First was an 1859 Nantucket ship’s portrait of the Turtle, signed by artist Jacob Harnack and the vessel’s captain, which sold for $5,313 ($1,2/1,600). A 6-inch Nineteenth Centu
  
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• Aaron Willard Tall Case Clock Leads CarlsenGallery Sale

  05-06-2023 16:06 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  FREEHOLD, N.Y. — An Aaron Willard tall case clock towered over its estimate of $1/2,000 to strike $13,200, including buyer’s premium, at Carlsen Gallery’s early June antiques auction on June 4. It sold to the trade bidding by phone. The Boston, circa 1800, clock was inlaid with signed dial, initialed case and featured fluted quarter columns. Standing 97¾ inches tall, it lacked only its weights and one pully wheel. There were 360 lots in this sale, with additional highli
  
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• Aaron Willard Tall Case Clock Leads Carlsen Gallery Sale

  05-06-2023 16:06 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  FREEHOLD, N.Y. — An Aaron Willard tall case clock towered over its estimate of $1/2,000 to strike $13,200, including buyer’s premium, at Carlsen Gallery’s early June antiques auction on June 4. It sold to the trade bidding by phone. The Boston, circa 1800, clock was inlaid with signed dial, initialed case and featured fluted quarter columns. Standing 97¾ inches tall, it lacked only its weights and one pully wheel. There were 360 lots in this sale, with additional highli
  
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• Gilman Archive Sweeps Swann’s Women-Focused Auction

  05-06-2023 16:04 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — Swann Auction Galleries’ Focus on Women sale on June 1 showcased an eclectic set of material representing women’s contributions to art, life and society. From Louisa May Alcott to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Catherine the Great to Susan B. Anthony, and Jane Austen to Amelia Earhart, the works of many famous women were included. But the sale wouldn’t fulfill its brief without emphasizing the everyday lives of women, their unsung accomplishments and triumph
  
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• Temporary access road in Antique now passable to vehicles - pna.gov.ph

  05-06-2023 15:17 via news.google.com
  
  Temporary access road in Antique now passable to vehicles  pna.gov.ph
  
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• 14-day mandatory quarantine for hogs implemented in Antique town - pna.gov.ph

  05-06-2023 13:52 via news.google.com
  
  14-day mandatory quarantine for hogs implemented in Antique town  pna.gov.ph
  
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• PHOTOS: Antique road show | News, Sports, Jobs - Standard-Examiner

  04-06-2023 03:15 via news.google.com
  
  PHOTOS: Antique road show | News, Sports, Jobs  Standard-Examiner
  
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• Auction of vast antique tool collection next week in Portville - Olean Times Herald

  03-06-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Antique health workers search for thousands of unvaxxed kids - pna.gov.ph

  02-06-2023 14:53 via news.google.com
  
  Antique health workers search for thousands of unvaxxed kids  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Bridge linking southern, northern Antique to be finished in 2024 - pna.gov.ph

  02-06-2023 12:57 via news.google.com
  
  Bridge linking southern, northern Antique to be finished in 2024  pna.gov.ph
  
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• DA seeks Antique hog raisers' assistance in ASF checkpoints - pna.gov.ph

  02-06-2023 10:41 via news.google.com
  
  DA seeks Antique hog raisers' assistance in ASF checkpoints  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique stores begin to see more customers due to inflation - WTVA

  01-06-2023 22:59 via news.google.com
  
  Antique stores begin to see more customers due to inflation  WTVA
  
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• Kadiwa to expand retail stores in Antique - pna.gov.ph

  01-06-2023 13:24 via news.google.com
  
  Kadiwa to expand retail stores in Antique  pna.gov.ph
  
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• 374 families in Antique evacuate due to flooding - pna.gov.ph

  01-06-2023 10:04 via news.google.com
  
  374 families in Antique evacuate due to flooding  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Bramson’s Britains Are Great For Old Toy Soldier

  31-05-2023 22:24 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  PITTSBURGH, PENN. — On May 20, Old Toy Soldier Auctions, led by toy expert Ray Haradin, sold exactly 600 lots of Britains toy soldiers and related accessories from the collection of Chicago-based collector, Alan Bramson. Assembled beginning in the early 1980s, Bramson worked with toy solider dealer Gus Hansen and his collection was known to feature a number of extremely rare and desirable sets. All lots sold for a “white glove” sale, tallying just more than $225,000.The post Br
  
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• The Way Auctions Used To Be: Steenburgh’s Sale On ‘The Field’

  31-05-2023 22:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  PIKE, N.H. — For the generations that thinks auctions are conducted on hand-held devices, or computers hundreds or thousands of miles away from the salesroom, this sale would have been a totally different experience. Steenburgh Auctioneer’s May 21 sale was conducted under two large yellow and white tents on a large, grassy field, which housed about 200 people. Northern New England antiquers know the spot well; sales have been held on “The Field” for more than 40 years sin
  
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• Bruce Ingraham, Auctioneer and Dealer, 60

  31-05-2023 22:18 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  COVENTRY, CONN. — Bruce Ingraham unexpectedly passed away in his sleep on May 15, at the home he shared with his wife of 30 years, Theresa Frey-Ingraham. Bruce was the owner and lead auctioneer of Ingraham & Co, which he founded in 2003, a local institution known for its weekly auctions. Born on May 19, 1962, in Hartford, Conn., Bruce was the son of David Ingraham, a machine parts salesman, and Beverly, an artist with whom Bruce began his career in arts and antiques. He and Beverly ran
  
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• Q&A: Alyssa D. Quinlan

  31-05-2023 22:17 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  At the beginning of this year, Hindman announced it had promoted Alyssa D. Quinlan as its new chief executive officer, a role she stepped into after a tenure as the firm’s chief business development officer. The decision by the Chicago-headquartered firm aligns with other international auction houses that promote people with finance backgrounds — rather than art history ones — into the top job. We took the opportunity of Quinlan’s promotion to see if she would give us a p
  
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• Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence And The Mbari Club

  31-05-2023 22:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  TOLEDO, OHIO — What does it mean for an African American artist to become associated with a postcolonial African art movement? And for that same artist to headline a major US exhibition of that community’s work in 2023? And what does it mean for visitors to perhaps be discovering all these artworks for the first time, a continent away from where they were produced? “Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club,” on view at the Toledo Museum of Art, June 3 through Sept
  
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• Jones & Horan’s Afternoon Auction Realizes Nearly $1.5 Million

  31-05-2023 16:45 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Rolex “Big Red” Daytona ref 6263 hammered at $65,000.
  MANCHESTER, N.H.— Jones & Horan’s four-hour sale of 435 lots on Sunday, May 7, resulted in $1,496,000
  with buyers competing from 27 different countries. Each lot was offered at no reserve and with no buyer’s premium, totaling a combined result of nearly $1.5 million.
  The top lot was a Rolex “Big Red” Daytona ref 6263 which hammered at $65,000. Other wristwatch  highlights: Patek Philippe Perp
  
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• Chinese Artifacts Rocket At Sarasota Estate Auctions

  31-05-2023 16:41 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  A blanc de chine Buddha with spiritual symbol was estimated $400/600 but did much better, selling for $25,200.
  SARASOTA, FLA. — Chinese material, fine art and antiques crossed the block at Sarasota Estate Auctions in a two-day sale May 20 and 21. The successful auction weekend totaled more than $600,000, led by a
  Qing dynasty Mandarin court robe that surpassed its $20/35,000 estimate to finish at $39,060. It engendered a lot of interest and questions prior to auction day. Starting with an
  
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• DepEd-Antique urges schools to hold catch-up lessons - pna.gov.ph

  31-05-2023 11:55 via news.google.com
  
  DepEd-Antique urges schools to hold catch-up lessons  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Fishing boats help stranded passengers cross Antique river - pna.gov.ph

  31-05-2023 11:02 via news.google.com
  
  Fishing boats help stranded passengers cross Antique river  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Bidders Pick Choice Works In Millea Bros $3.1 Million ‘Select’ Sale

  31-05-2023 01:34 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Leading the overall three-day sale was this early Eighteenth Century celadon blue porcelain clair de lune gu vase bearing a Qianlong mark from a Mount Kisco, N.Y., private collection, which topped out at $462,500. Possibly of the period (1711-1799), the heavily potted porcelain vase of lobed baluster form had a wide flaring rim and blue underglaze seal mark to underside with old retail stickers and stood 15½ inches high.
  Review by W.A. Demers; Photos Courtesy Millea Bros
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• Two-Day Total Exceeds $9.3 Million— Barrow Collection Is ‘Best Ever’ For Brunk

  31-05-2023 01:10 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Tallying the top result of the weekend was, from the Barrow Collection, “Setting Sun and Sea” by Roy Lichtenstein, 1964, edition 5/5, signed and dated, blue and white porcelain enamel on steel, 37 by 72 inches, which sold to Dallas gallerist Kristy Stubbs for $479,700 ($200/300,000).
  Review by Madelia Hickman Ring; Photos Courtesy Brunk Auctions
  ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The May 19 and 20 sales conducted by Brunk Auctions featured a 377-lot Premier auction on the first day, followed th
  
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• Sweet Sixteen: The American Art FairMakes History, Sees Record Sales

  31-05-2023 00:32 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  The fourth floor of The American Art Fair extends up to the fifth floor, where Avery Galleries and Thomas Colville Fine Art were situated. Chenyu Huang photo for The American Art Fair.
  Review & Onsite Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring
  NEW YORK CITY — For art lovers in or around New York City, mid-May is top-heavy with art auctions and shows, whether powerhouse previews at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the glittering international art fair at the Park Avenue Armory that is The Euro
  
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• Heritage Launches The Armstrong Family Collection In Space Exploration Auction

  30-05-2023 23:33 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Directly from the Armstrong Family Collection, this Apollo 11 flown American flag was the highest-flying lot of the auction at $62,500.
  Review by Z.G. Burnett; Images Courtesy of Heritage Auctions
  DALLAS — On May 19 and 20, almost 1,000 lots from the Armstrong Family Collection were offered at Heritage Auctions’ Space Exploration Signature Auction. Many of these were artifacts of scientific history and many had direct connections with the Apollo missions and their pilots. Excluding p
  
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• Americana Of All Kinds At Circle Auction

  30-05-2023 22:04 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Letter from George Washington to Ludwell Lee, 1797, led the sale at $11,300; Washington’s correspondence from this time is rare, as Martha Washington burned most of his personal papers following his death in 1799.
  Review by Z.G. Burnett; Images Courtesy of Circle Auction
  KANSAS CITY, MO. — The 2023 Spring Art, Antiques & Jewelry sale at Circle Auction on May 20 brought Americana, fine art, jewelry, Native American and Asian art, as well as historic documents. “We were excit
  
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• Japanese Incense Burner Heats UpHeritage’s $1.5 Million Silver, Objects Of Vertu Sale

  30-05-2023 21:46 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Worth far more than its weight in silver, this enormous two-piece Meiji era incense burner brought auction attendees to their feet with applause after selling for $250,000.
  Review by Z.G. Burnett; Images Courtesy of Heritage Auctions
  DALLAS — Heritage Auctions’ Silver & Objects of Vertu sales always bring a gleaming selection, but the May 16 sale was an offering for the ages. Names such as Tiffany, Gorham, Reed & Barton, Kirk & Son and more were included, but these were a
  
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• South Bay Turns Tables For Joseph ‘Jay’ St Mark Estate

  30-05-2023 17:09 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  EAST MORICHES, N.Y. — Selling for $21,000, an American country table, cataloged as Nineteenth Century, with single board top with bread board ends on a gray-painted base, was the top lot in South Bay Auctions’ May 24-25 sale of the Estate of Joseph “Jay” St Mark. A representative for the house said competition on the table came down to a heated back-and-forth between two phone bidders. Comprising exactly 502 lots of fine art, early Americana, folk art, silver, decoys and
  
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• Dragonfly Lamp Leads Tiffany Swarm At Heritage

  30-05-2023 17:05 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — Heritage Auctions’ May 25 “Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco & Art Glass Signature” sale achieved a total of $1,275,200, with the top price of $103,125 realized for a circa 1910 Tiffany Studios leaded glass and gilt bronze drophead Dragonfly table lamp. The lamp was unique in that the shade featured nine descending dragonflies, each with a different combination of body and eye color. Both the shade and base, which featured a distinctive “Queen A
  
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