Skinner, Inc. will host a Discovery auction on February 16th in its Marlborough gallery. The one-day sale boasts eight hundred lots. Among the wide selection of material featured, bidders will find hundreds of lots of Asian offerings including carved jade and ivory, Chinese export porcelain, brush pots, scrolls, and hardwood furnishings. The [Read More]
Daily Archives: February 8, 2012
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Two fine and imposing suits of armour are to be offered for public auction on 29th March. The two full suits of steel armour (two of four) were once a familiar sight in the famous Bower procession which dates back to the reign of Henry II. Richard Winterton, proprietor of the Auction [Read More]
Jim Wroda Auctions announces an auction of Dolls-Doll/Child Furniture and Doll related smalls, on February 24th 4pm. Child’s collapsible bed, Child’s washstand with decorated inserts, child’s sleigh bed for a doll, doll’s wardrobe, child’s toy china cabinet, antique child’s chair with needlepoint seat, working toy dishwasher, antique electric toy stove, antique trunk [Read More]
Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction on 7th February 2012 made a total of £2,657,700 with a Picasso, a Modigliani, a Renoir and a Chagall amongst the top lots sold were: A stunning painting of ‘Notre Dame de Paris’by Pablo Picasso sold for £864,450. Here Picasso has taken a subject he knows [Read More]
The three top works of Impressionist and Modern art from the storied Collection of Elizabeth Taylor fetched a combined £13,787,750 ($21,784,645 /€16,572,876) at Christie’s London Tuesday evening, more than doubling their pre-sale low estimate of £6.2 million. An additional 35 works from the film star’s fine art collection will be offered for [Read More]
Most experienced wine auction team remains a global market leader (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart, the leading wine auction house in America over the past two years, opened 2012 with a highly-charged auction of finest and rarest wines, selling 100% of lots offered and posting $3.5 million in sales against a [Read More]