About Heritage Auctions - Art: Decorative Arts

Karen holds a Master’s Degree in Decorative Arts History from Parsons’s School of Design and the New School for Social Research through the Cooper Hewitt Museum.  Her career began in the curatorial departments of distinguished collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where responsibilities included the reinstallation of the decorative arts collections and period rooms as well as establishing the collecting direction of the Norwest Modernism Collection.

She went on to Gallery Directorships in Chicago, Atlanta and Birmingham, MI, accepting opportunities to continue to curate exhibitions while buying extensively and developing private collections of furniture, ceramics and glass.  Beginning in 2003 she developed curriculum and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the History of Decorative Arts for institutions including Georgia State University.

Karen has been with Heritage Auction since 2007, and has been involved with the Fine Silver & Vertu Auctions sincere their inception in May 2008.  She is currently Director of Silver and Decorative Arts.

Richard Cervantes is Consignment Director for Asian Art, New York. His expertise in the identification, valuation, marketing and sale of fine Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian works of art was developed over ten years as a specialist and eventual department head at a major East Coast auction house. Prior to his career in auction, Richard was a scholar and educator in the fields of Ancient History and Italian Literature. He has frequently presented to private and trade audiences on Asian Art and textile topics and is a featured appraiser on PBS' Antiques Roadshow.

Weathers is a fifth-generation Texan who entered the art world in 1993 with gallerist Eugene Binder in his pioneering Deep Ellum, Dallas space, as well as an internship with the Public Art Coordinator for the City of Dallas working on the Freedman’s Memorial Cemetery Project in 1992. A New Orleans resident from 1999 to 2016, she served as the Vice President and as Director of Paintings, Prints and Photography at Neal Auction Company, New Orleans during her fifteen years there.   

Weathers joined Heritage Auction company as a Consignment Director for Fine and Decorative Arts in 2016, and she instrumental in developing successful proposals for important paintings and significant collections of antiques. She became Senior Appraiser with Heritage in February of 2018.  

Weathers' B.A. in English Literature is from the University of Texas, Austin, and graduate work in Art History from Tulane University, New Orleans. She is a certificate holder from the American Society of Appraisers Appraisal Studies Program from George Washington University (2003).  Weathers is USPAP compliant after completing the 15-hour personal property course in June of 2018.