This month Chinese porcelain auctions results share objects featured on Bidamount include thousands of hand picked examples from around the world. Some are on eBay, others are on CATAWIKI and many, many more were found on Invaluable, Liveauctioneers and Christie's in particular. On this blog are Chinese porcelain auction items included on Bidamount's Global Member Pages. Here are just … [Read more...]

Finding Auctions of Authentic Chinese Porcelain and art that's accurately described has never been easier nor more difficult all at the same time. While this might sound contradictory, it's actually the truth and makes total sense. The advent of the internet created a massive environment for collectors to look for things, and at the same time opened the door to fraudsters and miscreant sellers … [Read more...]

This past week as we were heading into February a slew of Chinese porcelains being auctioned appeared for us to include on the Global Auction pages. We also noticed a huge uptick in listings of fakes and reproductions. If you're using the Global Auction Member pages be sure to check the Auctioneer Report Card before spending any money. A number of the February auctions run for several … [Read more...]

In September Sotheby's will be auctioning off around 300 jades from the Herbert and Florence Irving Collection. Roughly one third of the jades left to the museum from their combined estates. The sale is being conducted to eliminate duplicates and to fund the acquisition of additional objects of Asian Art as stipulated in their last bequests. In addition to Jades, they'll also be selling … [Read more...]

A few months ago when the Second Opinion service began with us on eBay, I spoke with my friend Clayton Pennington about it. Clayton is the Editor and Publisher of the Maine Antiques Digest aka MAD. His voluminous monthly family paper is the bible for antique collectors in the US. It's like getting the New York Times Sunday edition but for antiques. He felt it was a very worthy endeavour on behalf … [Read more...]

Yesterday the Bidamount Second Opinion Authentication Service Story on EcommerceBytes was posted by the news website. A few days ago we contacted them to see if the story was of interest, to our pleasant surprise they did a nice piece on the effort. Click Image To Read Article About The Second Opinion Authentication Service Earlier this month eBay and Bidamount decided to … [Read more...]

Lauren Gallery Threats From Georgia! Lauren Auction Gallery Threatens Law Suit Over Opinion Articles and You Tube As many of you know during the course of the year we do posts and You-Tube video's regarding upcoming auctions and post auction results. We cover I think with our thoughts and opinions fairly auctions at Christie's, Bonhams, and Sotheby's. On occasion we also focus on smaller auction … [Read more...]