Steeped in the glamorous era of 1960s film stars, La Dolce Vita, open-top sports cars and smoke- wreathed dinners, Bulgari became the byword that encapsulated the fashion and innovation in Italy at the time. With the realisation that film stars could provide the perfect setting for their stones, the jewellery house ensured [Read More]
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Sotheby’s will host Fine Classical Chinese Paintings, the first dedicated New York auction in this category for over a decade, on Tuesday 13 September 2011. The sale is made up of 80 diverse works from the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as a small selection of modern and contemporary works that [Read More]
The auction will be conducted at Lake Alice Park in Wewahitchka, Florida, near Panama City. (WEWAHITCHKA, Fla.) – Hundreds of items from the once-thriving (but now closed) Finders Keepers antiques shop, plus a massive mostly-Lionel toy train set (many pieces from the 1930s), will be sold Sat., Sept. 24, in an on-site [Read More]
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International (HAI) announced that they have been retained to offer the Crosspointe Baptist Church facility in Fultondale at absolute auction on Thursday, September 22. Located on a picturesque hill overlooking the area, the facility is situated on 18 acres and features an expansive 60,000± SF multi-purpose building. The building features [Read More]
The dresser box was the top lot of the 345 or so items that changed hands in Boynton Beach. (BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.) – An antique Meissen hand-painted oval-covered dresser box with incredible reticulated design throughout sold for $14,375 at a multi-estate sale held Aug. 27 by Elite Decorative Arts. The 19th century [Read More]
(Beverly Hills, CA) Artfact Live! will offer live online bidding for Julien’s Auctions’ sale of property from the estate of Tony Curtis, taking place September 17, 2011 and encompassing over 450 items from the life and career of the renowned actor. Items up for auction include an original work by Andy Warhol, [Read More]
Nine original portrait miniatures by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), known as “The Artist of the American Revolution,” along with five more attributed “in the manner of” Peale, are currently on display and available for private treaty purchase at Heritage Auctions Beverly Hills. They will remain on display until the end of September. [Read More]
Christie’s will host the sale of Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Decorative Arts, in New York on September 28. This sale features over 90 exceptionally rare and diverse examples of American art and craftsmanship from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, including pieces from outstanding private collections and public institutions. This [Read More]
The two-session auction will be conducted on-site, at 30 Howard Hill Road in Jaffrey, N.H. (JAFFREY, N.H.) – A two-session auction featuring a lifetime single-owner collection of petroliana, automobilia, snowmobile collectibles, antique Volkswagen Beetles and other vehicles and trailers will be held Saturday, Sept. 24, by Matthews Auctions, LLC, based in Nokomis, [Read More]
Bonhams are offering a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 4.2 Litre Sports Saloon owned by Shane Filan of Westlife at the Goodwood Revival on Friday 16th September 2011. The car is expected to fetch £250,000-300,000. Manufactured on 4th May 1964 the car was found in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by marque specialist Desmond J [Read More]
SOTHEBY’S LONDON 2011 autumn wine season will open with two sales of Finest & Rarest Wines in close succession. The first auction will take place on Wednesday, 14 September 2011 and the second on Wednesday, 5 October 2011. Together, these sales are expected to bring in excess of £1.5 million. Taking centre [Read More]
Two rare works by the celebrated Russian artist Vasili Polenov are amongst the highlights of the Russian sale taking place on the 30th November at Bonhams, New Bond Street. Considered masterpieces of the golden age of 19th century Russian painting, the two works entitled “He that is Without Sin” (est. £1.2 – [Read More]
Skinner, Inc. will host a Discovery auction on September 14th and 15th in its Marlborough gallery. The large sale helps kick-off the autumn auction season, with more than 1,500 lots up for bid. Wednesday’s offerings, which go on the block starting at 2 p.m. include approximately 200 lots of American, British & [Read More]
Sotheby’s has announced the sale of the two most important works by Johann Zoffany to appear on the market in recent years. Both commissioned by David Garrick, Britain’s greatest actor, they depict him with his family and friends in the garden of his house on the banks of the river Thames at [Read More]
An exceptionally rare bottle of The Glenlivet, distilled in 1883 and bottled in 1931 by George & John Gordon Smith, is to be auctioned by Bonhams at their whisky sale in Edinburgh on 12 October. It has a pre-sale estimate of £15,000-20,000. The bottle has an impeccable pedigree. It was originally owned [Read More]
One of only a handful of known existing original copies of Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated “Join, or Die” editorial cartoon, from the May 9, 1754 edition of The Pennsylvania Gazette – the single most famous and important American editorial cartoon in existence, and one of the most famous ever printed – will be [Read More]
Auctions America by RM in partnership with RM Auctions announced today it will lift the gavel on one of the Chicago area’s best known treasures, the famous Lee Roy Hartung Collection, during a multi-day sale in Glenview, Illinois, November 3 – 5, 2011. Lee Roy Hartung Collection Photo: Darin Schabel © 2011 [Read More]
Adding to its formidable line-up of events, Heritage Auctions will present its first Estate Auction, Sept. 27, at its Dallas Design District Annex, 1518 Slocum Street, with a wide and eclectic range of antiques and art, including fine French Clocks, Bergman bronzes, a grouping of George Nakashima Mid- Century furniture and Personal [Read More]