22 days ago by graye63

Art Glass / Pate de Verre When it comes to “Art Glass”, few glass makers compare to Emile Galle and the Brothers Daum of Nancy, France. A particularly fine example of Daum Nancy glass can be found in our item no. C029 Pate de Verre Leaf and Gecko. Pate de Verre (‘paste of glass’) is formed by packin ...

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33 days ago by Philip Chasen

Royal Vienna vase I just finished my third show in the greater Chicago area in six weeks, with sincere reservations beforehand. After all, how many times can you exhibit in the same city within a reasonably short period of time? Well, the answer is THREE! The show went very well and I’m both surpris ...

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37 days ago by Philip Chasen

I’ve been pondering the changing nature of the antiques business. After 35 years, I have the luxury of being able to stand back and look dispassionately at the changes. One of the major changes I’ve noticed is that there are fewer collectors today. That hasn’t necessarily hurt the value of antiques, ...

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46 days ago by Philip Chasen

My booth at the Chicago Merchandise Mart Show We last exhibited at the Chicago Merchandise Mart in May. The spring show is considered the better of the two shows because it’s more established and gets better attendance. But for us the results were the reverse. We were disappointed in the spring and ...

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47 days ago by Philip Chasen

Leslie Hindman held an auction today with fresh-to-the-market French cameo glass from the Patricia J. Gottschalk Trust. Combined with the fact that the estimates were very conservative, the results excelled, with most items exceeding the high estimates, some items selling for 5-6 times the high esti ...

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58 days ago by Philip Chasen

Doyle New York had its Belle Epoque auction today with a very nice selection of French cameo glass. The overall results were solid with a few items doing very well. Daum Prairie vase, lot 356 First up was a group of Daum vases. One of the nicest of the group was a small Prairie vase, which is a rare ...

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61 days ago by Philip Chasen

Alphonse Mucha poster 'Job' The Art Nouveau movement started in the 1890s, drawing its inspiration from nature. Women, flowers and insects were pictured realistically with curved flowing lines that were rarely symmetrical. A poster by the Austrian artist Alphonse Mucha for the cigarette paper “Job” ...

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68 days ago by Philip Chasen

Having sold many thousands of antique glass vases over the years, I’ve learned a lot about how to clean them from trial and error and a few mistakes. It also doesn’t hurt to have a Master’s Degree in Chemistry. Most people are quite timid about using chemicals on glass. They’re afraid they’ll ruin t ...

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73 days ago by Philip Chasen

I received two similar requests. Matt Long wrote. “Just a thought, what about writing about some of the most amazing pieces you have seen or dealt with over the years on your blog? The pieces that pop into your head. As much info about them as you have would be interesting to me and others I would t ...

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80 days ago by Philip Chasen

The economic recovery is in full swing at Christie’s, as evidenced by the results of the French cameo glass that was sold today at their Interiors sale in New York. Much of the French glass was from the estate of Simon Pinhas. The estimates were low and the quality good. That’s usually the formula f ...

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