Stunning jewellery made by Italian society jeweller Stefano Scortecci for a prominent family of European diplomats during the 1960s will be sold by Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions London saleroom on Wednesday 27th November. Stefano Scortecci opened his workshop in Rome in 1920. He became one of Rome’s leading society jewellers during the [Read More]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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Bonhams newly designed headquarters and salerooms provided the setting for the two days of Japanese auctions (6th-7th November) which achieved an impressive total of over £2.3million. Suzannah Yip, director of the Japanese art department said: “It was a great pleasure to welcome our clients from all the over world to our elegant [Read More]
The two-session sale (one cataloged, one discovery) will be held in Fontaine’s Pittsfield gallery. (PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Three exceptional E. Howard & Company astronomical regulator clocks – including a No. 68 astronomical regulator expected to realize $100,000-$150,000, plus a pair of R. J. Horner mahogany grandfather clocks, one signed Tiffany & Co. [Read More]
Le jardin de Maubuisson, Pontoise, la mère Bellette by Camille Pissarro led Bonhams November 5 sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, selling for $1,805,000. A masterclass of Impressionist innovation from the movement’s most important years, the picture was formerly in the collections of noted connoisseur Alfred Bergaud and French Prime Minister Fernand [Read More]
Exactly 300 works of art came up for bid in an auction that grossed more than $2.4 million. (MILFORD, Conn.) – An oil on canvas of a young woman striking a wistful pose in a field by the American genre and landscape painter Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942), titled Far Away Thoughts, sold [Read More]
Today’s medical professionals face the same problems as 18th Century physician Robert Pitt: should apothecaries be allowed to prescribe medicine? Pitt’s book ‘The Antidote: or, the Preservative of Health and Life’ contributes to the long running dispute and goes up for auction on Thursday 14th November at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, Godalming. [Read More]
YORK, Pa. – America’s first collectibles auction house, Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, presents a blockbuster lineup of pop culture, original comic art and rare Americana in their online, phone and absentee auction closing November 19-21. Bidding has opened in Auction #210, which contains 3,105 choice lots. The selection is led by three [Read More]
The sale will be conducted by John McInnis Auctioneers at the firm’s Amesbury, Mass., gallery, online bidding will also be offered at www.liveauctioneers.com/john-mcinnis-auctioneers (Amesbury, MA.) – As the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches, the media and the entire world is recalling not only that tragic day but also celebrating the [Read More]
Items will include a Bvlgari 18kt gold bracelet, a 1990 IROC-Z Chevrolet Camaro with 9,315 miles, and Japanese World War II swords and other sporting items collected by Daniel Pagano. (BRISTOL, Conn.) – An online-only auction totaling more than 500 lots in a wide array of categories will be held in the [Read More]
A portrait of former Soviet Union leader and father of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, by American pop artist Andy Warhol, will be a highlight at Bonhams Prints sale on November 19 in London’s New Bond Street. ‘Lenin’ (1987), a screen print in colors on Arches 88, signed and inscribed ‘PP [Read More]
A veteran entrant of the London to Brighton Rally – a 1903 Clement Talbot with a wooden body – sold for £606,300 at Bonhams in London today, the first sale to take place in the company’s new headquarters building in New Bond St. As the car is registered for the 2013 London-Brighton [Read More]
The domain name MutualFunds.com, potentially valued at well more than $1 million, is being offered by New York Times best-selling author Marc Ostrofsky, as the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions’ inaugural Domain Name & Intellectual Property Signature® Auction, with bidding now open until the live auction event on Nov. 21. The auction marks [Read More]
Bonhams Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction to be held at 2pm on 24 November at the Island Ballroom of the Island Shangri-La Hotel will offer around 400 lots, including a selection of Imperial porcelain, gilt-bronze, cloisonné, jade, snuff bottle, lacquer, bamboo and scholarly art. The sale also [Read More]