[2] The company was acquired by the Chachas family in June 2019 and announced that it would be opening a San Francisco location for the holiday season as well as an e-commerce business.

It later sold moldings, gilded cornices, and European artwork to those recently made wealthy from the California Gold Rush.

He sent his buyers to Japan and China, bringing back exotic rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades to California's new millionaires.

[9] On August 10, final liquidation sales began on the retailer's official website and at its remaining storefront in San Francisco;[10] the store closed on December 23, 2018.

[8] This was carved in the Chengde Mountain Resort, the summer capital of the Qing Emperors in the early 19th century, and was the largest of its kind outside a museum.

[citation needed] It was bought by one of the 2005 purchasers, New York investment banker John Chachas, who loaned it to the store until the liquidation.