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...price, they range from $65 replicas of 18th century Chinese-made porcelain salt dishes to a copy of Auguste Rodin's Age of Bronze, a statue of a nude male that stands 41½ in. high and sells for $7,500. In scope, they embrace reproductions of such varied items as Picasso's Houses on the Hill ($650), a weather vane sculpture of a 19th century race horse ($975), an old Chinese temple jar ($1,000) and an 18th century Japanese wood carving of a sleeping cat ($125). Besides beauty and style, what these and 112 other...
...shan chuang, the so-called Mao jacket, made of heavy blue or gray cotton and well stitched, is a bargain at $11; a matching Mao cap costs $1.50. Friendship Stores in each city, catering to foreigners, offer more exotic but in many cases bargains-priced goods such as embroideries, porcelain, jade jewelry, furs, silks, scroll paintings and antique furniture. The attendants seem scrupulously honest. At some of the antique stores, though, the young comrades behind the counter are apt to be woefully ignorant of the objets d'art they are selling. In Wusih, a customer reasonably well versed...
Among the items found by the archaeologists are buttons, porcelain, chicken bones, pipe stems and what Roberts terms "typical college material": beer steins and wine bottle fragments. Many of the artifacts date from the 1600s. In addition to the Harvard Hall site, artifacts were found by Grays Hall and Wadsorth House. Roberts said that the latter site seems to have been the town dump, which is an archaeologist's treasure trove...
...French political scene, in which the center-right and the left-wing opposition were splintered into four competing groups, each trying to explain its quarrels to an increasingly indifferent electorate. As a result, the Frenchman's distrust of politicians deepened. "Left or right," shrugged the owner of a small porcelain shop in Paris' middle-class 18th arrondissement, "it's the same salad." Complained a nearby bistro owner: "The politicians always make a deal. Don't worry about that." In short, for many voters the campaign had become political Grand Guignol, masking power deals that were too arcane to fathom...
...result, the antiques market is at present enjoying an unprecedented boom. The demand for a piece of the past was such that the auction houses hammered down one record after another in 1977: rare books ($360,000 for John James Audubon's Birds of America), Sèvres porcelain ($102,600 for Marie Antoinette's delicately painted milk pail), American furniture ($135,000 for a Boston-made mahogany bombé chest, circa 1780), even tin toys ($3,105 for a Mickey Mouse organ grinder...