The Bonhams Motoring Department is pleased to unveil the line-up for its annual auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, UK, which will take place on Friday 12th July. Leading the way is the 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 in which five-time Formula 1 World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio won two grands [Read More]
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A fine and rare pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector over and under guns by London maker James Purdey & Sons will be included in Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s Auction of Fine Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns & Rifles, which will be held at the World Famous Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire on the [Read More]
Christie’s announce the launch of two online-exclusive sales for a Chinese Works of Art in July 2013, the first internet exclusive opportunities for the collecting category. Blanc de Chine: Dehua Porcelain from the Galster-Ireland Collection will run from July 9-23, offering 57 lots of exquisite Chinese porcelain, while Miniature Treasures: Chinese Snuff [Read More]
Bonhams wine sale at New Bond Street on 11 July offers one of the widest and most interesting selections of wine to come to auction this year. In addition to fine wines from the traditional areas of Bordeaux and Burgundy, the sale includes exceptional finds from Italy, Germany and Australia. Richard Harvey [Read More]
25 Blythe Road’s first auction on their newly launched iRostrum online auction platform will take place on Tuesday 9th July offering a selection of British and Continental Pictures following public viewing at their London auction galleries. Pictures will range in value from decorative works starting at £50 to higher valued works for [Read More]
Gallantry medals, Orders and Decorations collected by the late Peter Maren will be sold by specialist London coins and medals auctioneer Morton & Eden. The sale, on Tuesday July 2, will include some 175 lots from the collection and is expected to raise more than $500,000. Mr Maren wished his collection to [Read More]
The finest motorcars in the world continue to be added to what has fast become Bonhams’ most anticipated US automotive event in recent years: the forthcoming Quail Lodge auction. Leading the recent consignments is the very first Type 35 Bugatti – the prototype. This is in fact the very car in which [Read More]
Fourteen original Salvador Dalí watercolor fruit studies, previously unseen by collectors made their auction debut at Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale in London on, 18th June. All fourteen lots in the series sold for the total of £726,700. The collection attracted interest from around the world culminating in battles between buyers [Read More]
Two other prominent estates will also be offered. In all, about 600 quality lots will be sold. (JACKSON, Tenn.) – The contents of one of Jackson’s stateliest and most historic Victorian mansions – Green Gables, at 1287 Hollywood Drive – will be sold in an on-site auction at the mansion itself, on [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host an auction of European Furniture & Decorative Arts on July 12th and 13th in its Boston gallery. Session I of the two-day sale opens with The Bent Family Collection: Furniture and Decorative Arts from Quattro Venti. Session II features sculpture, pottery, and porcelain and presents The Harry A. [Read More]
Bonhams realized nearly $5.3 million in the June 19 Fine Jewelry and Salon Jewelry auctions, with both auctions selling an exceptional 90% by value. The Madison Avenue gallery was standing-room only when auctioneer and Bonhams CEO UK & Europe and Group Jewelry Director, Matthew Girling, led the Fine Jewelry auction in the [Read More]
The French term ‘pate de verre’ roughly translates as ‘glass paste’. It is a glassmaking technique exploited from the 1900’s by the French Daum factory in Nancy. It involves coloured glass powder mixed with a liquid to form a paste which is then packed into a re-usable mould and fired to the [Read More]
With more than 300 items being offered in two sessions on June 30th, Gianguan Auction’s Summer Sale marks the first time Internet bidders will be able to place bids direct through the Gianguan Auctions website. Two unusual Fu and Shou character-from sancai ceramic ewers of the Qing Dynasty typify the cultural rarities [Read More]
The sale, which grossed over $225,000, featured occupational shaving mugs and Oziana items. (LYNBROOK, N.Y.) – A pair of original Peanuts Sunday pages by the legendary comic illustrator Charles Schulz sold for a combined $78,200 at a multi-estate sale held Thursday, June 6, by Philip Weiss Auctions, in the firm’s new post-Hurricane [Read More]
A selection of paintings from an important and comprehensive collection of Scottish Art amassed over 20 years by a private collector in Canada will be on view at Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue from 21-26 June. The entire collection, which is to be sold in Edinburgh at Bonhams Scottish Sale on September 12, [Read More]
Bonhams has sold William Morris’ 1995 “Sable Antelope Canopic Jar” for $290,500, an outstanding price which more than tripled its pre-auction estimate and set a world record price for a work of art by the artist at auction. A highlight of Dr Anthony Terrana’s heralded collection of Contemporary Studio Glass, Bonhams offered [Read More]
Richmond Hill, ON – 888 Auctions’ Thursday, July 18, 2013 sale of Chinese Horn Carvings & Asian Works of Art will begin at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, featuring 647 lots of an exciting array of fine natural history collections, jade and jadeite items, Chinese paintings, porcelain, jewelleries, precious stones and metal [Read More]
The July 13 auction, of fine decorative arts and Chinese works, will be held in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – A color lithograph depicting the French leader Napoleon on horseback with two other men by renowned Post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Fr., 1864-1901) is the expected top lot in an auction [Read More]