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...London, Sotheby's sold a set of seven Chinese Chippendale mahogany dining chairs for $4,480, up 50% since last February. Porcelain prices zoomed as an early Chelsea scolopendrium tea pot sold for $10,640, an increase of 230% in four years. A Toulouse-Lautrec print, La Grande Loge, garnered the highest price yet paid for a modern print: $15,400, more than double its 1959 value. Sotheby's was jammed for the sale, and their suave hammerman, Peter Wilson, who knows everybody in the London art world by sight, said, "I'd never seen half...
...rate, an uncharacteristic portrayal, for it is Vermeer's pensive, passive women that viewers have always found most memorable. None has caused more speculation than the portrait of a girl in a lemon yellow jacket and porcelain blue turban-Vermeer's favorite colors-with the inimitable pearl at her ear (opposite). Shy, sad, ingenuous yet intelligent, imbued with an air of mystery that has brought comparisons with the Mona Lisa and of devotion that matches a Bellini Madonna, she elicited Vermeer's greatest powers of portrayal-and through all the years kept the secret of her identity...
...mistress needs to be coaxed with presents-perhaps a fuzzy little Steiff poodle to dangle from the rear-view mirror, or more popularly a porcelain bud vase whose fresh flowers can be changed each day. The height of affection comes on the weekend when the car owner can give his lovely Gisela or Mitzi or Erika a bubble bath. From Kiel to Koblenz each Saturday afternoon, the streets are filled with men carrying sudsy plastic pails and chamois. Floor mats and cushions-many of them hand-embroidered by the car owner's routine wife-are assiduously cleaned, often...
...engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under Ch'ien Lung, a ruler of the Manchu dynasty, the service is patterned in rose-colored tobacco leaves, a style designed to appeal to the then-new Western trade. Only 20 years ago, according to Christie's, such a service would only...
...Thai saying. If that is so, the hind legs are doing more than their share of the walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the sheltered life of the home to pursue careers in business. For all their delicate femininity - their diminutive, porcelain prettiness, their singsong voices and their flowing silk robes-they have proved to be tough businesswomen whose impact on their country has already been extensive...