Headlining the Hong Kong Bonhams 2011 Autumn Rarest Single Malt Whisky Auction on 24 November, at the Island Shangri-La Hotel, is the Macallan Master Lalique Collection, the only set produced and available in the world. Enthusiastic bidding is expected for this top lot which consists of the rare Macallan Lalique 50, 55 [Read More]
Daily Archives: November 11, 2011
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Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) December 11, 2011 Important Modern Art & Design Auction will present the most important selection of California Design to ever be offered at auction. Examples include prototypes and personally commissioned,unique works each with strong provenance and rarity. Highlights include exceptionally important examples from nearly every major movement [Read More]
Sotheby’s biannual sale of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art brought a total of £12.3 million /$19.8 million / €14.4 million, within estimate. Headlining the sale was a large ‘famille rose’ ‘landscape’ dish, Yongzheng mark. The elaborately enamelled dish sold after a dramatic four-way telephone bidding battle, for £1,049,250 / $1.2 [Read More]
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers auctioned the personal collection of accomplished Cleveland rheumatologist Dr. Paul J. Vignos Jr. to a packed room of bidders and thousands of others on the telephones and internet. The November 6-8, 2011 auction included American and European paintings and prints, English, French and American 18th and 19th century furniture, [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture on 1 December 2011 will feature a strong selection works across the diverse genres that the category encompasses, with many of the highlights on offer from distinguished institutions and celebrated collections. Following Sotheby’s 2004 sale of a group of 31 George Catlin [Read More]
Sotheby’s announces Identità Italiana – another section of the same fulfil Private Collection recently successfully presented in London in October which registered many records, such as a 1957 Combustione by Alberto Burri Alberto Burri, sold at €3.627.467. Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta. Oil on canvas, 30 x 45 cm. Eseguito nel 1949. Estimate: [Read More]
The Bonhams Hong Kong 2011 Autumn Fine & Rare Wines Auction offers an exceptional selection of fine and rare wines from around the world ranging from legendary French Burgundy and Bordeaux to iconic Californian cult wines carefully sourced from pristine private collections. A total of 700 lots with an estimate of HK$16 [Read More]
Bonhams is to offer The Gerard Hawthorn Collection of Yixing Stoneware on auction, on November 28, 2011 at the Island Shangri-La Hotel, Hong Kong. Forming part of a new celebrated collection for their Autumn Auctions Series, The Gerard Hawthorn Collection of Yixing Stoneware is an impressive, personal collection of a connoisseur dealer, [Read More]
Bonhams announce its Modern Wristwatches Autumn Auction to be held on November 27, 2011, at the Island Shangri-La Hotel in Hong Kong. The auction offers over 180 lots of rare vintage time pieces as well as limited edition, modern models from the finest watch brands; estimates total over HK$14 million. This beguiling [Read More]
As part of their Fine Watch and Wristwatch auction Bonhams will offer 35 Patek Philippe watches – the most significant selection ever offered in a London auction. The sale will take place on Wednesday 14 December at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. Patek Philippe made the first wrist watch in 1868 [Read More]
This original 427 Cobra built at Shelby American in 1965 was the fourth of just 260 original 427 Street Cobras produced by Shelby. While most Cobras were shipped by boat to the States, the importance of 3127 is demonstrated by the fact that it was not only shipped by air, but also [Read More]