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050 00 $aNK2406$b.F74 1994
082 00 $a749.214/09/033075$220
100 1 $aFreund, Thatcher,$d1955-2019.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93057504
245 10 $aObjects of desire :$bthe lives of antiques and those who pursue them /$cThatcher Freund.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c1993.
263 $a9402
300 $a291 pages ;$c22 cm
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520 $aThis vivid journey into the world of antiques follows the fortunes of three eighteenth-century pieces of American furniture as they pass through the hands of twentieth-century pickers, dealers, restorers, and collectors, accruing new value while becoming objects of desire.
520 8 $aAmong the many desirable objects on offer during the 1991 Americana Week in New York - the annual high point of antiques sales - are three prized pieces. One stands in a spolight at the Winter Antiques Show: a pine blanket chest made for a farmer in the 1750s and still wearing its original coat of robin's egg blue paint. The asking price is $250,000. A few blocks away, on display at Sotheby's, is a rare Chippendale card table, created in Philadelphia in 1759.
520 8 $aThe auction house is hoping that bidding for the piece will reach one million dollars. Also on display at Sotheby's is an inlaid sofa table from the Federal period, valued at $100,000, one of the prized possessions of a collector forced by circumstance to sell his cherished objects
520 8 $a. How these three pieces came to be at the apex of the American antiques market is the story of the evolution of the world of antiques: a world of bold enterprise, canny deal making, consuming aesthetic vision, and obsessive pursuit - all fueled by a passionate attraction to objects.
650 0 $aFurniture$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121342
650 0 $aFurniture$xCollectors and collecting$zUnited States.
852 00 $bglx$hNK2406$i.F74 1993