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Research > decorative arts Links > auction housesThe American branch of Bonhams, the third largest auction house in the world, Bonhams and Butterfields is the premiere auction house on the west coast, conducting auctions in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sale categories include fine art, decorative art and design, arms, armor and weapons, coins, a wide range of memorabilia, toys and dolls, costume and textiles, automobiles, and musical instruments. One of the world's preeminent auction houses, Christie's offices serve the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Auctions are held in over 80 categories, including the decorative arts, fine art, ephemera, popular arts, motor cars and wine. While the quality and cost of objects sold through Christie's are both very high, the House Sale offers objects generally valued at below $15,000. Based in New York City, Doyle holds approximately 40 sales a year. Perhaps best known for their couture sales, other sale categories include fine art, jewelry, American and English furniture and decorative arts, Asian art, books, coins, and stamps. Based in Philadelphia, Freeman's is America's oldest auction house and conducts sales in American, English and Continental fine and decorative art, Americana, books, prints, jewelry, 20th century design, as well as many estate sales. Billed as the world's largest collectibles auctioneer, Heritage Auction Galleries, based in Dallas, specializes in numismatics, paper currency, comics, Americana, movie posters, and sports and entertainment memorabilia. The central auction house in Paris, Drouot offers daily sales in a wide variety of fine and decorative arts and ephemera. Phillips conducts auctions in New York, London and Geneva about twenty times a year in Photography, Jewelry, 20th and 21st century design, Impressionist and Modern art, and contemporary art. Founded in 1995 in Lamberville, N.J., Rago holds approximately fifteen sales a year, including the Craftsman Auctions, the largest Arts & Crafts specialty sales in the country. Rago also offers sales in 20th century Modern fine and decorative arts, jewelry, Zanesville Pottery, and Lalique glass in addition to general and estate sales. Based in Boston, with an additional gallery in Bolton, Mass., Skinner conducts approximately 40 auctions a year in the following categories: American Furniture & Decorative Arts, Paintings & Prints, English & Continental Furniture & Decorations, Fine Ceramics, Jewelry, Couture, 20th Century Furniture & Decorative Arts, Fine Musical Instruments, Asian Art, Fine Judaica, Toys, Dolls & Collectibles, Science & Technology, Oriental Rugs & Carpets, and American Indian & Ethnographica. A world-renowned auction house with offices all over the globe, Sotheby's conducts more than 700 auctions worldwide in over 90 collecting categories, including a wide range of decorative arts, jewelry, prints and drawings, fine art and ephemera from around the world. While most goods sold at auction at Sotheby's represent the very finest in their respective categories, the arcade sales also offer objects generally valued below $5,000.00. Founded in New York City in 1941 as a rare books auctioneer, Swann now conducts sales in autographs, maps and atlases, photographs, prints and drawings, and posters in addition to rare and antiquarian books. Based in Cincinnati, Treadway Galleries specialize in 20th century American and European decorative arts, including specialty sales of design of the 1950s in collaboration with The John Toomey Gallery, and notable annual sales of Rookwood. This Chicago auction house specializes in European and American 20th century art, furniture and design. Sales are often constructed around a central concept, such as The Lyrical Line: Art Nouveau to Aalto, or Branded Luxury. *compiled by Thomas Tredway |
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