The ivory/shibayama card case measuring just 11cm by 8cm had been brought into a valuation day at Richard Winterton’s Lichfield Auction Centre one Tuesday. Experts at the Auctioneers identified it as Japanese dating from the late nineteenth century. Made from ivory, both sides are delicately inlaid with various semi-precious materials such as [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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The contents of two architecturally important homes were offered by Stevens Auction Company. BROOKHAVEN, Miss. – A magnificent Lenzkirch grandfather clock crafted circa 1860, 8 feet 2 inches tall and featuring a music box that plays 15 ½ inch discs, soared to $39,200 at an on-site auction held Nov. 6 by Stevens [Read More]
The Bonhams Hong Kong 2010 Autumn Modern Wristwatches Auction offers a unique and rare collection of fine timepieces made by the top watchmakers of the world that will appeal to both beginner collectors and connoisseurs. A few highlights include Lot 1055 Vacheron Constantin Malte, PT950 platinum perpetual calendar wristwatch, manual wind with [Read More]
Sale features Qianlong period jades and several important collections Skinner, Inc. one of the world’s leading auction houses for antiques and fine art, today announced it will host an auction of Asian Works of Art on Friday, December 3rd and Saturday, December 4th in the Boston gallery. More than 1,700 lots of [Read More]
The auction – already online, at LiveAuctioneers.com – is slated to end Friday, December 10th STRAFFORD, Pa. – Around 250 lots of fine clocks, estate jewelry and other small items that would make excellent holiday presents will be sold in an online-only auction slated to end Friday, Dec. 10, by Gordon S. [Read More]
The Michael and Diane Schoeman Collection of Vintage Radios will be presented to collectors at Bonhams on Wednesday, December 14, 2010 at 11 a.m. in New York. The international auctioneers will conduct the third sale of this kind, which will surely serve as yet another benchmark in the collecting history of vintage [Read More]
– The sale also includes the Wootton St Lawrence Armet being sold in aid of the Local Church – -Several pieces from other European Royal Families and the Maharajah of Jodpur – AN HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT collection from the Hanoverian Royal Family – the ancestors of today’s British Royal Family – will be [Read More]
With the triumphant Grand Opening of its Park Avenue offices in New York, and a very successful inaugural Illustration Art Auction under its belt in October, Heritage Auctions will hold a suite of five auctions – American Indian Art, Vintage & Contemporary Photography, Timepieces, Lalique, Art Glass, & Perfume Bottles and Pre-Columbian [Read More]
Bonhams announce the December 9th auction of property from the estate of Cecil W. Stoughton, the Chief Photographer for the Kennedy White House. The auction will begin at 1 p.m. at the Bonhams gallery located at 580 Madison Avenue at 56th Street. Matthew Haley, Books, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs Specialist, said, “We’re [Read More]
Greg Martin Auctions is proud to join with the NRA (National Rifle Association) to participate in and contribute to the ‘NRA Firearms for Freedom Auction,’ to be held in Las Vegas on January 16, 2011. The special event, featuring charitable donations from NRA members, will be for the exclusive benefit of NRA [Read More]
Sotheby’s is to offer important old master paintings, modern British art and other works from the collection of 20th-century press baron and business tycoon Lord Beaverbrook in a series of auctions in both London and New York through January 2011. The highlight of the collection is Claude-Joseph Vernet’s A Grand View of [Read More]
Bonhams announce the November 11, 2010 results of African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art sale in New York. The auction featured unique and traditional works from Africa, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, Australia, Central and South America from as early as 1200 B.C. to the 15th Century, prior to European contact. Fredric Backlar, Director, [Read More]
Around 650 total lots will be offered at the two-session sale; Fine Wine will kick things off. HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Nearly 650 mostly fresh-to-the-market lots in a dizzying array of categories will be offered at a two-session weekend sale slated for Dec. 3-4 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The [Read More]
A stunning piece of China’s Imperial history – a seal personally commissioned and used by the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) – sold for £2,708,000 at Bonhams Sale of Fine Chinese Art on November 11th in London. The perfect four centimetre square jade seal bearing the inscription ‘Zi Qiang Bu Xi’, (‘Self-Strengthening Never Ceases’) [Read More]
The auction will be held in Adairsville, Ga., north of Atlanta, by Ken’s Antiques & Auction ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. – A huge two-part auction featuring over 200 pieces of rare and important pottery (to include Edgefield pieces by Chandler, works attributed to Dave the Slave, and many pieces by the renowned Meaders family), [Read More]
Dan Morphy Auctions has brought together a superb selection of artworks from private collections and individual consignors for its Dec. 10-11, 2010 sale. A breathtaking Tiffany Studios stained-glass window featuring a lush garden scene with trees, ivy, vines and roses adds the ultimate “wow” factor to the sale. The framed 43- by [Read More]
artnet Auctions is offering an outstanding collection by leading contemporary artists like Christo, Robert Graham, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol and others on offer. Untitled (Inverted Crucifix), 1984, by Keith Haring is the top lot in the sale. This 60 x 60 inch painting in day-glo orange acrylic is offered in pristine condition [Read More]
October was another great month for bidders and auctioneers on Artfact Live! Collectors snapped up vintage Matchbox cars at The Matchbox Forum’s October 7th auction with 71% of the lots selling online; Grogan & Company kicked off its 23rd anniversary with a spectacular October Auction that received over 54,000 online visits and [Read More]