Driven by optimism in the economy and a return of collectors' confidence in antiques, especially relatively low-priced modern designs, Sotheby's and Christie's are reassessing their positions on 20th-century decorative arts, and they have taken different tacks.
Hyde Park Hyde Park has three notable antiques outlets too, relatively close to one another, but you'll do better visiting by car.
The narrow dining room is what real estate people call intimate, yet it's relatively comfortable, with pillow-strewn banquettes, antique mirrors on the walls and little old lamps here and there.
The relatively low marker density observed in 'Chinese Antique' is likely a consequence of its unexpectedly high level genome homozygosity.
"In the great scheme of things, guns – antiques or not – are a relatively minor threat in the UK.
Photographs illustrate how he transformed plain, relatively inexpensive pieces of furniture into high-end antiques.
Because the pupil reflex mediated by melanopsin is relatively crude, even in bright light, Masland speculates that it could be an "antique" leftover from the evolutionary past.
The prices seem relatively sensible, and the dealers especially scholarly, at the New York Ceramics Fair and the American Antiques Show.
With a few exceptions, like Bernard Steinitz, most of the more than 50 dealers at "Antiques and Art at the Armory" are selling "smalls," as they are called: relatively affordable objects priced at a few hundred dollars.
Under the new rules, only antique items more than 100 years old – such as a figurines or chess pieces – or objects containing relatively small amounts of ivory, such as pianos and other musical instruments, will be legal for sale.
