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JE sent me a gorgeous black cotton structured Dolce and Gabbana dress. She found it in 2003 at a thrift store, with trademark excellent construction. The waist has old-fashioned bone …

Art Market Reaches Heights Big changes happened in the art and furniture auction market these past three months as the LONG TAIL of COVID evaporates. Furniture now stands frozen in …

MA sent me a boxed Japanese Fukagawa porcelain vase with a lovely painting of a Warbler bird on a Cherry Blossom branch. The story goes back to 1616 in an …

I have a unique problem. I own a Frigidaire Flair stove range combination built into my condo in 1962. It came with the kitchen when I bought the place in …

JL traveled the world throughout her life. She sent me a souvenir of the traditional Chinese opera she visited over fifty years ago as a guest of the Chinese Government. …

Imagine how I felt when the 1950s famous designer Russ Russell’s granddaughter asked me to appraise twenty of his hats in Montecito. I have a weakness for vintage hats. If …

PO sent me a photo of a Portuguese majolica covered earthenware glazed pot, large at twenty inches tall. I see the word “Rincine” on the cover in Latin. The colors …

I’ve known many kinds of artists in my career. Perhaps the most inventive and eccentric artists by MEDIUM are glassblowers. I don’t know if it’s something to do with the …

My last name is Stewart, and, yes, I have a Scottish connection, both by marriage and by heredity. Thanks to my good fortune at the young age of 23, I …

Four big stories dominated the art world this week: On the upcoming cover of The New Yorker, a courtroom artist’s sketch of Trump. Whistler’s Mother re-visits Philadelphia (last seen in …