Bonhams will be auctioning the internationally renowned glass collection of A C Hubbard Jr. on 30th November 2011 at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. The important and magnificent Prince William V of Orange Goblet, circa 1766, is the major highlight not only of the sale but of all English glass offered [Read More]
Daily Archives: October 6, 2011
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Bonhams sale of Islamic and Indian Art on October 4th at New Bond Street attracted stiff competition for the best items, boosting prices way beyond pre-sale estimates. The cover lot, A 16th century Iznik bottle flask from a private Belgian collection, estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000 made £184,850. This important [Read More]
A World Auction Record was set for Ming Porcelain at Sotheby’s Hong Kong today when an Outstanding Blue and White Imperial Vase, Ming Dynasty, sold for HK$168,660,000 / US$21,623,077. The ten-minute phone bidding battle in a crowded Hong Kong saleroom was won by Nicolas Chow, Sotheby’s International Head of Chinese Ceramics and [Read More]
An important American copper urn designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from the Edward C. Waller house in River Forest, Illinois sold for $772,000 on Monday at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The urn, estimated at $400,000-600,000, sold to a Florida private collector. It is not clear how many urns were produced or have survived, [Read More]
Skinner Inc. today announced its fall auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts will be held in its Boston gallery on Sunday, October 30, 2011. The sale features the early photography collection of Rod MacKenzie as well as American lighting, fine American furniture – both formal and paint-decorated – folk art, marine [Read More]
An important painting by Frank Auerbach entitled E.O.W., Nude on Bed is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British and Irish art sale, taking place on the 16th November at Bonhams New Bond Street. Estimated at £500,000- 800,000, the painting has been consigned from a North American Institution and has [Read More]
The extensive, never-before seen collection is being offered by a prominent Alabama physician. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – An extraordinary, never-before seen private collection of fine clocks, music boxes and musical instruments will be sold Saturday, Oct. 22, by Great Gatsby’s, at 11 a.m. (EST), in the Great Gatsbys’s showroom at 5180 Peachtree Industrial [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the number one wine auction house in America and internationally renowned retailer, will hold an exciting auction of finest and rarest wines on October 29th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction will begin promptly at [Read More]