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Tag: Antiques
Long-Lost Mosaic From a ‘Floating Palace’ of Caligula Returns Home
A 2,000-year-old artifact that had ended up in the home of a Manhattan antiquities dealer is now in an Italian museum.
For Britain’s Art Dealers, Post-Brexit Trade Isn’t So Free
New taxes, fees and red tape have some in the trade worried they will go out of business. Others see opportunities as the market readjusts.
Storied Russian Miniatures Dwindling in Face of Icon Revival
Russian miniatures — boxes painted with elaborate fairy tales — once replaced the holy icons banned by the Soviets, but now history is reversing itself.
They Look Like the Emperors’ Clocks. But Are They Real?
A legal dispute in New York is part of a broader questioning of the authenticity of some ornate timepieces that have come on the market from China.