Antiques: Extraordinary objects at New York's Winter Show

The Winter Show offers an array of objects distinguished not only by quality and rarity but by depth of scholarly research and provenance

In the early 1980s, the photographer Duane Michals captured Saint Laurent seated on the chaise in his studio. 

No ordinary table, no ordinary chair, no ordinary fair. The Winter Show, now in full swing in New York, offers an array of extraordinary objects distinguished not only by quality and rarity but by depth of scholarly research and provenance.

A console table on display at the stand of venerable London antique furniture specialists Ronald Phillips, for instance, is from the bedchamber of Queen Mary II, who jointly reigned with her husband William from 1689 to 1702 as England's first and only co-monarchs.