The auction will be conducted Sept. 24 in the firm’s gallery facility in Boynton Beach, Florida. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Over 400 lots of original artwork, porcelain, fine estate jewelry, cut glass, silver, bronze and furniture will be sold at a multi-estate sale planned for Saturday, Sept. 24, by Elite Decorative Arts. [Read More]
Daily Archives: September 15, 2011
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Love is a strong theme running through the next sale of South African Art at Bonhams on October 26th in London. It is evident in all three works by the country’s major artists, Stern, Pierneef and Preller. With Pierneef this emotion is evident in his powerful evocation of a landscape he loved [Read More]
Circa 1925, 20” x 9 ½” high vase painted in the traditional style of artist Wang Shigu of finely painted mountains sells for $152,100 as the top lot in the three day sale. Of many items on offer was an excellent collection of snuff bottles from a private collector in Florida. In [Read More]
Cowan’s Fall Fine and Decorative Art Auction will take place on October 8, 2011. The 364-lot sale, to be held at Cowan’s salesroom, will offer fine and decorative art items from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The sale features American folk art, furniture, decorative arts, and Cowan’s Fall Fine and Decorative [Read More]
Bonhams announce the sale of two extremely rare gold coins in its Coins & Medals auction on December 16, 2011. The first rare coin offered is the finest and only second-known example of a Chang Tso-Lin 50 Yuan gold piece (L&M-1031). It has been consigned for sale by the direct descendants of [Read More]
Sotheby’s auctioneers has announced the appointment of Marc Michel-Amadry as Managing Director of Sotheby’s Switzerland. Mr Michel-Amadry will divide his time between Sotheby’s Zurich and Geneva and will strengthen Sotheby’s existing team in Switzerland with his international experience in the luxury sector and strong record of general management across Switzerland. The re-establishment [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced today that they will be offering at auction 356 lots in the all-inclusive Horseshoe Bay community. This is Phase 2 of the major auction by order of the secured lender to liquidate over 300 prime homesites. Of the 356 total lots, 210 will be offered without reserve. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York sale of Classical Chinese Paintings, the company’s first dedicated sale in this field for more than a decade, realized the superb total of $6,467,000 (est. $2.6/3.7 million). The auction, which saw more than 87% of the sold lots achieve sums in excess of their pre-sale estimates, established a strong [Read More]