Bonhams Offers Rare Brooch by Imperial Jeweller, Given the Legion D’Honour for Services to Jewellery A rare peacock brooch set with diamonds and gems by the French Imperial jeweller Gustave Baugrand circa 1867is one of the highlights of the Fine Jewellery sale, taking place on the 21st September at Bonhams, New Bond [Read More]
Editor
9264 posts
Arts & Crafts Company announce, that due to closure of their storage facility the entire stock is to be sold at Dreweatts,Donnington priory, Donnington, Newbury, Berkshire. RG14 2JE, UK on 18th October 2011. Included in the sale will be 30 items of Yorkshire Oak including, Mouseman,Beeverman,Eagleman,Fishman,Gnomeman,Mr Kent(Grassington) Knightman, Lizardman(Derek Slater) Lizardman (Martin [Read More]
Keno Auctions announces the sale of silver from the Estate of Elisabeth Christensen, wife of the Master Silversmith Hans Christensen, will be included in its upcoming sale of Important Paintings, Furniture, Decorative Arts and Jewelry, which takes place on Saturday, September 24, 2011, at the Marriott Hotel (243 Tresser Boulevard) in Stamford, [Read More]
Guernsey’s Auction House will be conducting an auction of remarkable items relating to the history of Rock & Roll, on September 24th and 25th The event will be held at 82 Mercer Street in the heart of trendy Soho in Manhattan, while absentee bidders can participate on liveauctioneers.com. Included in the treasures [Read More]
MacDougall’s auctioneers have announced that its forthcoming Russian Art Auctions will be headlined by Merchant’s Wife, an exceptional masterpiece by Boris Kustodiev. The painting is estimated at £1,200,000?1,800,000, and will be among the top lots of London’s fall 2011 Russian week. Boris Kustodiev, Merchant’s Wife. Estimate: £1,200,000-1,800,000 Merchants’ wives, or Kupchikhas as [Read More]
Stevens Auction Company will conduct the sale, at 609 No. Meridian Street in Aberdeen, Miss. (ABERDEEN, Miss.) – An extraordinary arsenal of vintage weapons, militaria and rare antiquities belonging to the late James Larry Bragg – a direct descendant of Civil War General Braxton Bragg – will be sold Saturday, Oct. 8, [Read More]
The auction will be conducted Sept. 24 in the firm’s gallery facility in Boynton Beach, Florida. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – Over 400 lots of original artwork, porcelain, fine estate jewelry, cut glass, silver, bronze and furniture will be sold at a multi-estate sale planned for Saturday, Sept. 24, by Elite Decorative Arts. [Read More]
Love is a strong theme running through the next sale of South African Art at Bonhams on October 26th in London. It is evident in all three works by the country’s major artists, Stern, Pierneef and Preller. With Pierneef this emotion is evident in his powerful evocation of a landscape he loved [Read More]
Circa 1925, 20” x 9 ½” high vase painted in the traditional style of artist Wang Shigu of finely painted mountains sells for $152,100 as the top lot in the three day sale. Of many items on offer was an excellent collection of snuff bottles from a private collector in Florida. In [Read More]
Cowan’s Fall Fine and Decorative Art Auction will take place on October 8, 2011. The 364-lot sale, to be held at Cowan’s salesroom, will offer fine and decorative art items from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The sale features American folk art, furniture, decorative arts, and Cowan’s Fall Fine and Decorative [Read More]
Bonhams announce the sale of two extremely rare gold coins in its Coins & Medals auction on December 16, 2011. The first rare coin offered is the finest and only second-known example of a Chang Tso-Lin 50 Yuan gold piece (L&M-1031). It has been consigned for sale by the direct descendants of [Read More]
Sotheby’s auctioneers has announced the appointment of Marc Michel-Amadry as Managing Director of Sotheby’s Switzerland. Mr Michel-Amadry will divide his time between Sotheby’s Zurich and Geneva and will strengthen Sotheby’s existing team in Switzerland with his international experience in the luxury sector and strong record of general management across Switzerland. The re-establishment [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced today that they will be offering at auction 356 lots in the all-inclusive Horseshoe Bay community. This is Phase 2 of the major auction by order of the secured lender to liquidate over 300 prime homesites. Of the 356 total lots, 210 will be offered without reserve. [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York sale of Classical Chinese Paintings, the company’s first dedicated sale in this field for more than a decade, realized the superb total of $6,467,000 (est. $2.6/3.7 million). The auction, which saw more than 87% of the sold lots achieve sums in excess of their pre-sale estimates, established a strong [Read More]
Spectrum Wine Auctions’ Autumn 2011 Rare Wine Auction will take place September 24 & 25 at 11:00 a.m. HKT at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong Hotel. The entire two-day event features a total of 1,606 lots of rare and collectible wines, and carries a pre-sale estimate of nearly US $6 million (HK [Read More]
On Saturday, October 1st and Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at noon, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its third auction of 20th C. Design for the year. Included among the more than 950 lots are rare vessels and art works descended from Susan Frackelton’s family; a fine and extensive collection [Read More]
Bonhams auctioneers is to join forces with the Pakistan educational charity, Pakistan Rising, to help raise much needed funds for primary schools in Pakistan. Ten of Pakistan’s finest artists have donated work for the auction which takes place at 6.45pm on 3 October at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London. Pakistan Rising [Read More]
A stunning art deco diamond wristwatch by Cartier circa 1935 that belonged to Eleonora Sears, the great, great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, will be offered in the Fine Jewellery sale, taking place at Bonhams London on the 21st September. The strap consists of baguette and brilliant cut diamonds and is estimated to [Read More]