Sotheby’s in London have sold a rare and magnificent Yuan Dynasty Blue and White ‘Peony’ Jar, Guan £2.6 million/$4.1 million, more than six times pre-sale expectations (estimate: £400,000-600,000), in the biannual Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sale. Blue and white wares are undoubtedly one of the greatest contributions to the [Read More]
Yearly Archives: 2010
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Skinner, Inc. will host its annual auction of Science, Technology & Clocks on November 20th in its Marlborough gallery, located at 274 Cedar Hill Street. The sale, which starts at 10 a.m., includes an impressive collection of rare clocks and timepieces, a strong offering of militaria including Revolutionary and Civil War material, [Read More]
The auction will be held in Flowery Branch, Ga., by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – Hundreds of lots of quality, fresh-to-the-market pieces of high-end furniture, fine art, china, pottery, decorative accessories, collectibles and more will be sold at auction Saturday, Nov. 27, by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques, [Read More]
Christie’s upcoming Russian Works of Art sale on 29 November 2010, in London, will be led by an important jewelled vari-coloured gold and guilloché enamelled Imperial presentation snuff-box, marked Fabergé, with the workmaster’s mark of Henrik Wigström. It was presented to the Turkish diplomat, Turkhan Pasha (1846-1927), in December 1913 on behalf [Read More]
The Estate Archive of Edgar G. Ulmer, one of the greatest Film Noir and Horror filmmakers of all time, consigned directly from his daughter Arianne Ulmer Cipes, provides the anchor to Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills’ Signature® Music & Entertainment Auction, Nov. 13-14. The treasures in this remarkable archive include Ulmer’s storyboard for [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York will hold a dedicated sale of an interior of furniture by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, the legendary French Art Deco atelier, on 6 December. The nine masterworks were commissioned by an American family, and this auction represents the first time in over ten years that such a complete interior of works [Read More]
Bloomsbury Auctions offer Americana & Fine Books including Original Designs in New York, 8 December 2010, 10am & 2pm. Sale to include Americana featuring Selections from the Papers of William D. Hassett, Correspondence Secretary to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Rare original designs for landmark New York hotels including the facade of the [Read More]
Headlining the event will be a pair of beautifully restored 1962 Chevy II Nova classic cars BRISTOL, Conn. – The estate of the late J. Alphonse “Al” Roy, a lifelong resident of Bristol who passed away in August at age 77, will be sold in an on-site auction scheduled to take place [Read More]
Two Jowett motor cars, a 1924 Jowett 7hp Type C and a 1952 Jowett Javelin Saloon, which were both produced at the Bradford-based company’s headquarters in Idle, West Yorkshire, are to be sold by Bonhams in Harrogate on 17 November 2010. Part of the Collectors’ Motor Cars, Motorcycles and Automobilia sale, they [Read More]
SmartAuction, Ally Financial’s online auction web site, today unveiled Dealer eVantage, a new suite of electronic tools designed to help consignors and buyers more effectively and efficiently buy and sell vehicles on SmartAuction. At the heart of SmartAuction’s Dealer eVantage is the use of proprietary analytics to create personalized alerts for each [Read More]
A single owner sale of Tribal Art from Africa from a private New York Collector is on offer at Gray’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, on November 18 at 1pm in Gray’s auction showrooms in Cleveland, Ohio, with simultaneous online bidding offered by Gray’s Live bidding, together with telephone, absentee and live in-person bidding. [Read More]
The auction will be conducted by Woody Auction, headquartered in Douglass, Kansas WICHITA, Kan. – Hundreds of pieces of rare and vintage art glass, consigned by several prominent collectors, will be sold at auction Saturday, Dec. 11, in the 4H Hall of the Sedgwick County Extension Center in Wichita, Kan., starting promptly [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell a near-contemporary portrait of Napoleon painted by his valet and close companion Louis-Joseph-Narcisse Marchand in the British & Continental Pictures auction in Knightsbridge on 30 November 2010. Marchand (1791-1876) was Napoleon Bonaparte’s valet and friend. He became an Imperial servant in 1811 and remained faithful to Napoleon after [Read More]
The Finding of Moses, a 19th century masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, has been sold for a remarkable $35,922,500, more than seven times the presale high estimate of $5 million*, at Sotheby’s in New York. The monumental canvas was sought-after by three determined bidders who battled for nearly eight minutes. Soon after [Read More]
The partnership of Wes Cowan, Garth Clark, and Mark Del Vecchio (Cowans+Clark+DelVecchio) will present their inaugural Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction alongside the 2010 SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art) Fair in Chicago on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at Navy Pier. The first of its kind, the Auction brings to the international [Read More]
In its first major Prints auction since the record sale of Edvard Munch’s ‘Madonna’ for £1,252,000 in July, Bonhams is featuring a dramatic image by the renowned First World War artist, C. R.W. Nevinson, which was recreated in the classic anti-war film “Oh What a Lovely War.” ‘Nerves of An Army’, from [Read More]
On Sunday, November 7th at 2:00 pm, Clarke Auction’s new Post Road building will host its opening winter sale with a collection from the home of the iconic coloratura soprano Roberta Peters. Ms Peters, who made her Metropolitan Opera debut at nineteen, went on to perform with the Met for more than [Read More]
A very rare pair of French silver-mounted flintlock pistols by Napoleon’s gunmaker, Boutet, once in the collection of Field Marshall Sir Frances Festing, will be offered in Bonhams Fine Antique Arms and Armour sale in Knightsbridge on Wednesday, 24th November. The pair is estimated to fetch between £50,000 to £75,000. The pistols, [Read More]