A highlight of the collection, previously owned by Minnesota philanthropists Leo and Doris Hodroff, is a dog figurine commissioned by a Polish queen in the 1730s.
The names of antiques sometimes change as research corrects old errors. In the 1930s, an auction house sold a pair of what were called "Lowestoft" vases that were large enough to put on a fireplace ...
A collection of 18th-century porcelains that was seized by the Nazis and stored in a salt mine before being recovered by Allied forces was sold by descendants of the original Jewish owners at auction ...
Chris Antemann respects certain aspects of the past. This doesn’t prevent her from turning it on its head. Opening for display Feb. 26 at Bellevue Arts Museum, Antemann’s “Forbidden Fruit” exhibition ...
18th-century porcelain seized by Nazis to be auctioned in restitution effort More than 100 items of Meissen porcelain, recovered by the famed ‘Monuments Men,’ are set to be sold next week at Sotheby’s ...
Sotheby’s will auction a collection of early 18th-century Meissen porcelain that was restituted by the Dutch government to the heirs of Franz Oppenheimer, a Jewish businessman who fled his home in ...
A collection of 18th-century porcelain that has been recently restituted by Dutch government to the heirs of Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer, a German-Austrian couple who made their fortune in coal ...
Gold is selling for very high prices, but porcelain was more precious than gold in 17th-century Europe. Thin white porcelain was first made in China in the 10th century, but it wasn’t seen in Europe ...
A Chinese vase that sat, little noticed, in a suburban London home has become one of the most expensive artworks ever sold, evidence that China's sizzling art market shows no signs of cooling down.
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