“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sold an extremely rare but seldom-shown 18th-century Chinese vase for $14.5 million at Christie’s Hong Kong. The tianqiuping vase, which was ...
The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse delves into the fascinating journey of how a single Classical vase rose to legendary status, shaping and influencing art and commerce across time and space. With a ...
On Sunday, February 16, Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero picked up and smashed a vase by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which is currently showing his ...
A Dutch art dealer realized the vase's significance after appraising an elderly European woman's collection. Courtesy of Sotheby's Porcelain vases and roaming pets can be a precarious combination.
The pandemic has has inspired a range of works, from portraits of celebrities in masks to the coronavirus modelled in clay Lee Cartledge, a potter in North Yorkshire, has spent a large chunk of ...
Regional Victoria may be one of the last places you would expect to find a precious work of art that once belonged to a Russian tsar. But at the Bendigo Art Gallery, you can find just that; an ...
PRINCETON, NJ — Too many Greek vase jokes are lost in translation. For example, this duel between Achilles and Hector looks serious. But tragicomic ironies abound in ancient epic. The Trojan war ...
The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. It was around this time that Corinthian vase painters began adorning their vessels with animal friezes ...