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copy of cloisonne with a hit of whimsy added.
Nevertheless, she was amazed when she saw what happened next. The appraisers from Christie’s, the famous New York Park Avenue antique auctioneers, took the vase and, according to Bird, “That man scratched it twice with a knife. He scraped it with a knife—twice. 1 thought those people were such hams. I never saw anything like it."
Meanwhile the woman had decided that maybe Diana was right—the vase wasn’t cloisonne, which Diana says contains wires in the design inside a metal base on which a powdered material is applied and then baked to form different colors of enamel. The man from Christie’s was evidently digging to see if he could find the wires, but if it were a genuine cloisonne he could have damaged a valuable antique in the process. Bird says.
She was equally unimpressed with the comments of another appraiser who examined a bowl she had brought. She said his remarks were "superficial” and “didn’t tell me anything 1 didn’t already know.”
Bird was impressing the other Rappahannock residents present Friday night at the Gallison Hall auction preview in Farmington with her knowledge as a specialist in Oriental antiques, but she wasn’t much impressed with the predominantly “Gay ’90s” and Rococo furniture and frills which Bird judged to be in “terrible taste.”
Still, Piedmont Environmental Council president Robert T. Dennis says the event was lucrative for the Warrenton based group. At $35 per couple with approximately 260 people attending, Dennis says PEC netted nearly $2,000.
“We take money where
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