SHOWS • SHOPS • AUCTIONS • ART • ARCHITECTURE • HISTORY ANTIQUES nl O By John Fiske NORTHEAST sive xclu eE in March 2010, Volume 15, No. 8 Michelangelo: Architecture as Anatomy, Drawings By The Master ..............................40 Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia .................................................41 Under the Hammer: Auction News ...........43 Great Finds: Americana Week in New York The Winter Antiques Show, New York, NY, Jan. 22 – 31 The American Antiques Show (aka TAAS), New York, NY, Jan. 21 – 24 Antiques at the Armory, New York, NY, Jan. 22 – 24 Americana and Antiques @ the Pier, New York, NY, Jan. 23 – 24 This English Secretaire Cabinet was in Hyde Park Antiques’ booth at the Winter Show. Made about 1715, it was decorated in the latest fashion – chinoiserie. The lacquered decoration showed hunt scenes, driving scenes, court figures and lions all in pagoda settings. Appropriately, the cabinet had a pagoda-inspired cornice. The top drawer opened to secretaire, with drawers and pigeon holes. $180,000. Hyde Park Antiques, 836 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-4805, (212) 4770033, info@hydeparkantiques.com, www. hydeparkantiques.com. Going downtown to the other Armory allowed us to go down in price as well. Andrew Spindler offered this hand-made toy of a WWWII aircraft for a modest $65. Andrew Spindler Antiques, 163 Main St, Essex, MA 01929, (978) 768-6045, info@ spindlerantiques.com.