19 août 2009

Large birthday greetinsg caligraphy sign. China, 1866 A large, genuine, antique sign presented to an elderly scholar for his 70th birthday by a senior eunuch of Emperor Tongzi of Ching Dynasty. Signed and dated.. height: 105.41 cm (41.5") width/length: 220.98 cm (7 ft. 3 in.). Price $3,100 Mandarin Collection, 18 Riverside Ave. Westport, CT 06880, US. Phone: 203 454 4030 - E-Mail: cc@mandarincollection.com

Horned Head. Lagoon peoples. Gold. 3,5 in. Olga Hirshhorn Collection Greenwich, CT - The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, opens a second show this summer drawn from the collections of former Greenwich native Olga Hirshhorn entitled West African Gold from the Ivory Coast: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection, on view from Saturday, August 8, 2009, through Sunday, November 8, 2009. Mrs. Hirshhorn married famed art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn, whose gift of his collection to the Smithsonian Institution established the Hirshhorn... [Lire la suite]