Three remarkable women who lived and worked together to become leading American Victorian-age illustrators are the subjects of a welcome exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

The third highest lot was a rare carved and painted pine American eagle by Wilhelm Schimmel, which brought $108,000 from Marietta, Penn. dealer Harry Hartman.

The Haraden-Ropes family Chippendale bombé chest of drawers realized a record price when it was knocked down to Albert Sack, bidding on behalf of a Northeast Auctions client.

Nonstop bidding via the Internet and ten telephone lines was noted by Antiquorum, as well as an exceptionally large number of written bids.

If you want to see a bunch of happy people, go to the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, and visit the Winter Antiques Show, on view until January 25.

In the 18 years since Sanford Smith launched his inaugural Modernism, the show has seen dramatic growth in both stature and maturity.

The Peabody Essex Museum’s 31st annual antiques show made a spectacular return to the museum this year after a three-year stint at Salem State College.

The Bruce Museum presents, in partnership with the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 38 Dutch masterpiece genre paintings in the ‘Age of Vermeer.’

For 500 years, the teapot has served as the spouted, steaming engine of hospitality and has evolved as a work of art, as this Mint Museum of Craft and Design exhibit proves.

The scope of the exhibition is from circa 1480 until the 1950s, with the majority of the works dating from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.