Dragon entwined Imperial ceramics, jade animals and a spectacular lamp made of buffalo horn, offer much to excite buyers at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art Sale on November 10th at New Bond Street, London. An object that speaks loudly of Chinese craftsmanship features numerous dragons. An Imperial enamelled and blue ‘nine-dragon’ vase bearing [Read More]
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On September 24th, Christie’s New York will offer wine collectors a rare opportunity to bid for some of these “crown jewels,” as the auction house presents a special selection of legendary bottles direct from the private cellar of Inglenook owner Francis Ford Coppola, including two bottles of the legendary 1941 vintage. This [Read More]
Bonhams has announced a sale of Fine Prints, October 25, 2011 in San Francisco, and simulcast to Los Angeles, the auction will feature a wide range of lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and screenprints spanning myriad centuries. The sale is led by a brightly-colored lithograph of “Ambassadeurs, Aristide Bruant,” 1892, by French Post Impressionist [Read More]
Sotheby’s New York has announced it will auction The Collection of Allan Stone Volume III, on 23 September 2011. The sale of property from the renowned New York dealer follows two exceptionally successful auctions in May 2011. Just as in those sales, this offering is made up of outstanding examples by the [Read More]
Freeman’s auctioneers have achieved another extraordinary success when a ‘double dragon’ white jade seal realized over $3.5 million, making it the highest selling lot in the biannual Fine & Decorative Asian Arts auction. The Qing Dynasty seal was sold to a bidder in the room by auctioneer and head of Asian Arts [Read More]
A selection of personal handwritten letters by James Dean, which have never been offered for sale before, are to be sold at Christie’s auction of Popular Culture: Film and Entertainment Memorabilia in South Kensington on 23 November 2011. The letters are each addressed to Dean’s on-off girlfriend of two years, Barbara Glenn. [Read More]
A set of the very earliest photographs of Burma taken by the British Victorian photographer, Linnaeus Tripe, are for sale at the India and Beyond: Travel and Photography sale at Bonhams in London on 4 October. This very scarce volume is estimated at £70,000 – 90,000. Linnaeus Tripe was a British army [Read More]
Ketterer Kunst in Munich has announced the sale of German Avant-Garde paintings on 28 October. Max Schwimmer (1895 Leipzig – 1960 Leipzig), Herbstlandschaft, 1920. Watercolor and charcoal drawing This year’s offering focuses on works made from around 1900 up into the late 1930s. It will be lead by Hans Michaelson’s oil painting [Read More]
Sotheby’s London announce that its Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Thursday, October 13, 2011, will be headlined by Boy’s Head of 1952 by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) depicting Charlie Lumley, one of Freud’s most immediately- recognisable subjects from this seminal early period in his oeuvre. This oil on canvas transmits a remarkable psychological [Read More]
Auctioneer, television appraiser and expert, Phil Weiss, will auction to the highest bidder a collection of over 500 lots of Disneyana art and memorabilia, Comic books and Comic art on Sunday Sept. 25 beginning at 10:00 am ET at his gallery in Oceanside NY. Featuring “The Adirondack Collection” of Comic Art, with [Read More]
Fourteen leading international artists have donated major photographic works of Venice to be sold at auction in aid of Venice in Peril on 3 November 2011 at Phillips de Pury & Company, London. The artists were invited to photograph Venice to create a collection of new images of the city as part [Read More]
On Sept. 16, Stephenson’s Auctioneers located in the Philadelphia suburb of Southampton will conduct a sale of goods and inventory from William Glatz Jewelers, one of the last of Philadelphia’s traditional jewelry, watch and clock shops. The auction additionally includes superb antique American furniture and sterling silver from the living estate of [Read More]
Just about anyone who collects antique gambling or coin-op machines knew the late Bob Levy. He was such a presence in his field of expertise that he became known throughout the world as simply “the slot machine guy.” On Sept. 3rd, more than 200 coin-op enthusiasts gathered at Dan Morphy’s auction gallery [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced that it will hold the Anita Mui – Jewels and Watches From The Estate auction on 5 October during Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn Sale 2011, offering exclusively 43 lots of jewels and watches as well as memorabilia items from the estate of Anita Mui (1963 – 2003) – the legendary [Read More]
Christie’s has announced it’s upcoming Antiquities sale on 6 October 2011. The auction will feature 252 lots, with items dating from 4th millennium B.C. to the 15th century A.D.. Offering a broad spectrum of quality pieces from Egypt, Greece, the Roman Empire and the Near East at a wide range of prices, [Read More]
An unrestored works racing team 1953 Austin-Healey ‘100’ Special Test Car has been consigned to Bonhams’ December Sale at Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge.This remarkably charismatic Le Mans car was campaigned in period by works drivers Lance Macklin, Gordon Wilkins and Marcel Becquart and is expected to realise in excess of £500,000. One of [Read More]
The first free antique valuation day at Weston Hall, Stafford was a resounding success yesterday (8th September). Richard Winterton was on hand to give his expert advice on all aspects of the auction business. Highlights included a vast consignment of hallmarked silver wares, a rare doll automaton and a number of rare [Read More]
The event will be held in the firm’s gallery facility, located at 1015 Julia Street in New Orleans. (NEW ORLEANS, La.) – Hundreds of lots of original artwork, fine period furniture, wonderful estate jewelry, sterling silver, decorative accessories and more will be sold at a multi-estate auction planned for Saturday, Sept. 24, [Read More]