| At first glance, the small oil portrait of a handsome man in a flowered dressing gown looked somewhat unprepossessing. Hanging on the wall of a dealer’s booth at an antiques show in 2010, it had a “folksy” appeal, but wasn’t an obvious candidate for acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum accessions
This short list of notable acquisitions began with a request to decorative arts curators in major American museums to choose and discuss a fav… » More
Farther afield: TEFAF, BADA, and the Salon du Dessin
Europe puts its best foot forward to welcome the massive influx of international collectors and dealers who head there each spring. The Europ… » More
Morse at the Huntington Library
It would probably surprise Samuel F. B. Morse, and not pleasantly, that future generations know him for his invention of Morse code and his se… » More
Farther afield: London’s leather alchemist: Gavin Rookledge, Rooks Books
Rooks Books produces books (and other leather-wrapped objects) that have a tactile, physical presence while exuding a sense of otherworldly m… » More
Robert Frank
Hollywood Fashion and jewelry
Palaces in the Czech Republic
by Émile Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933), 1926. Macassar ebony, amaranth, and ivory. Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Cynthia Drayton
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Porcelain Tray
Estimate: $150 - $300 (FMV)
Listed By: Stephanie Retz
Location: Providence, RI
Estimate By: Jorge Luis González
The thick potting, simple decoration, small size and deep shape of the tray would indicate late 18th or early 19th century continental manufacture.
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