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First I want to wish a Happy and Healthy New Year to all of my readers, friends and associates. It’s going to be 2020 in a couple of days. Sure looks and sounds funny, but we’ll get used to it soon enough.

The Original Miami Beach Antiques Show opens to the public this coming Saturday, January 4, 2020, at the strange time of 2 PM and continues until Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 4 PM. It’s not too late to make your plans to come to the show. I just checked hotels on Hotwire. 3 to 4 star hotels are available for $85 – $150/night. Can’t beat that. Come to Miami, enjoy the warm weather, great food and visit the best show of the year.

I know I always tout the items I bring to an important show, but this year is really special. I’ve got some items that I rarely ever see, let alone all together at the same show. Following are a few examples. You’ll just have to come to the show in person to see the rest. I promise you won’t regret it!

The first item is a truly killer Gallé lamp. It’s one of the top two best and largest Gallé lamps I’ve owned in 50 years of doing business. It’s gorgeous, with intense, beautiful, blue and purple flowers on a deep yellow to gold background. The chrysanthemum flowers are all windowpane, meaning the yellow glass layer on the interior of the shade, behind each of the flowers, is etched away. It keeps the color of the flowers pure. Otherwise the yellow and blue layers would combine to show green flowers. The bonus decoration is two beautiful butterflies on the top of shade — a real rarity. Gallé lamps do not get better than this!

If there’s one Daum Nancy Blackbird vase in the world that is the best, it has to be the one pictured above. Because of it’s monumental size at 28″ tall, there’s lots of canvas for the artist to paint details that can’t be done on a small vase. Most examples have tiny little blackbirds with no discernible detail. This example has large, realistically painted birds, with superb detail in the trees and snow. It’s the best there is!

The above are only two examples of the phenomenal collection of French glass we’re bringing to the show (including two rare Daum Nancy miniature Blackbird vases and a Swan covered egg).

We’re bringing an extraordinary collection of over 25 Tiffany Studios lamps. The beautiful 20″ diameter Dragonfly example pictured above is one of two 20″ Dragonflies. We’ll have over 15 leaded Tiffany lamps, several Favrile glass table and floor lamps, as well as several gold and green Linenfold table and floor lamps.

Since the show ends on Wednesday, I won’t publish next week until Thursday, January 9th, with the results of the show. Make sure you tune in. (More people read my blog every year on the day after the end of the Original Miami Beach Antiques Show than any other day of the year.) Consequently, there will not be a new post on Monday, January 13. Instead the following post will be published on Monday, January 20.

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Our next show, The Palm Beach Show, is about a month away. You can get two free tickets to the show by clicking here. It will be held at the Palm Beach Convention Center, February 13-18, 2020. We haven’t exhibited there in a few years, but decided to give it another try this year in a smaller booth.

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Bonham’s New York held a Modern Decorative Art + Design sale on December 13, 2019. Included in the sale were a handful of items by Daum, Gallé and Tiffany Studios. Following are a few of those results.

Four of the seven Tiffany Studios lamps offered for sale sold. Of those that sold, lot #13, a 20″ diameter Dragonfly, brought the highest price. It sold for $68,825, including buyer’s premium, within its pre-sale estimate of $50,000 – $70,000. Personally I didn’t care for it because of the strange combination of shade and base. Apparently my opinion had no bearing on its sale. :>(

Only three pieces of cameo glass were offered for sale. Lot #7, an unusual Gallé pitcher with seashell applications, sold for $25,075, including buyer’s premium. That was well below the pre-sale estimate of $40,000 – $60,000. The estimate certainly turned me off. Had it been estimated at $15,000 – $20,000, I would have bid. My guess is that it probably would have sold for more than it actually did.

Another Tiffany Studios lamp, lot #12, an attractive 18″ diameter Alamander table lamp, sold within its pre-sale estimate of $35,000 – $45,000, realizing $43,825, including buyer’s premium.

For the complete results of the sale, click here.

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The Original Miami Beach Antiques Show is less than two weeks away. If you haven’t made your plans yet, there’s still time. You don’t want to miss the best antiques show of the year.

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Heritage Auctions held a Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass sale on November 21, 2019. Following are some of the more interesting results.

The top lot of the sale, #79006, was a Tiffany 20″ Daffodil table lamp. It sold for its low estimate of $35,000, which equates to $43,750 after including the buyer’s premium.

Loetz glass sold exceptionally well at the sale. Lot #79176, two Loetz Titania vases, sold for many times their pre-sale estimate of $800 – $1,200, realizing $18,750, including buyer’s premium. Another Loetz Titania vase, lot #79178, also did well, selling over its high estimate of $7,000, realizing $12,500, including buyer’s premium. It was a lucky day for the consignor because in my opinion the vases weren’t worth the prices paid.

Lot #79087 was a lovely Daum Nancy Rain box. It sold within its pre-sale estimate of $6,000 – $8,000, realizing $9,375, including buyer’s premium.

For the complete results of the sale, click here. You will have to sign in (free) for the prices.

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No shows until October 20, 2022, when we’ll exhibit at the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show. Two weeks later we’ll exhibit at the Antiques + Modernism Show in Winnetka, IL, starting on November 4, 2022.

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Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, England, held a British Pottery sale on November 27, 2019. Included in the sale was a nice selection of Martinware from two major collections. Following are some of the results.

The top lot of the Martinware selection was #6, an attractive, 10½” tall, bird tobacco jar. It sold below its pre-sale low estimate of £30,000, realizing £36,400 ($47,056), including buyer’s premium. I suggest that the estimate of £30,000 – £50,000 was a bit too aggressive.

The second highest lot of the Martinware grouping was #5, a rare 9¼” tall Birdman tobacco jar. It sold within its pre-sale estimate of £25,000 – £30,000, realizing £33,800 ($43,695), including buyer’s premium.

Lot # 4 was a very fine, 8″ tall, aquatic covered jar. It exceeded its high estimate of £10,000, realizing £15,600 ($20,167), including buyer’s premium.

For the complete results of the sale, click here.

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No shows until October 20, 2022, when we’ll exhibit at the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show. Two weeks later we’ll exhibit at the Antiques + Modernism Show in Winnetka, IL, starting on November 4, 2022.

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Bonham’s Los Angeles held a Modern Design | Art sale on October 27, 2019. Included in the sale were many lots that I know little about and a few where I have expertise. Following are a few of the results.

The top lot of the sale was #200, a 1985 bronze armchair by Sido and Francois Thevenin entitled Crypto 10 Armchair. It flew past its pre-sale estimate of $20,000 – $30,000, realizing $80,075, including buyer’s premium. I couldn’t even begin to explain the significance of this result.

Onto my area of expertise. Lot #42 was a 20¼” Daum Nancy vase with colorful thistle decoration, extensively wheel-carved with martelé texture. It sold near its low estimate of $10,000, realizing $12,575, including buyer’s premium. Even though the quality was very good, I wasn’t interested in the vase, as monumental vases are difficult to pack, transport, display and sell.

Lot #40 was a nice Loetz Austria vase with applied and pulled tendrils, 9¼” tall. It sold for $4,075, including buyer’s premium, against a pre-sale estimate of $2,000 – $3,000.

For the complete results of the sale, click here.

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No shows until October 20, 2022, when we’ll exhibit at the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show. Two weeks later we’ll exhibit at the Antiques + Modernism Show in Winnetka, IL, starting on November 4, 2022.