Bonhams introduces for the first time in New York, a Fine Oriental Rugs, Carpets and Tapestries sale, adding to their already comprehensive list of well-regarded auctions on the East coast. The auction will take place on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 1 p.m. at their saleroom located on 580 Madison Avenue at [Read More]
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During its Fine European and American Furniture and Decorative Arts Sale on March 7, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields is to offer property from a prominent San Francisco Estate, in which a portion of proceeds will benefit the University of California, San Francisco’s Pulmonary Division. Important works from the sale, offered to benefit [Read More]
A brand new on line selling auction, launched by one of the UK’s largest cycling retailers. Selling specifically cycling related products One of the fastest growing cycling retailers in the industry is launching a new online auction site called www.rutlandcycling-auction.com, owned and operated by Rutland Cycling The site has been launched and [Read More]
The sale will be held at Finney’s showroom in Schodack, N.Y., about 15 minutes from Albany (SCHODACK, N.Y.) – Nearly 300 lots of fresh-to-the-market items from prominent area estates and collections will be sold on Saturday, Feb. 26, by Finney’s Auction Service. The sale will begin promptly at 11 a.m., at Finney’s [Read More]
Bonhams & Butterfields presents its first Wine Auction of 2011 on Saturday, February 26th in San Francisco, simulcast to Los Angeles. The sale, consisting of numerous fine and rare wines, will feature several collections of important burgundy that include strong offerings of vertical vintages. The auction also includes several highly sought after [Read More]
Sotheby’s London sale of Finest and Rarest Wines on 23 February, 2011, will include a plethora of delectable wines, including a superb private collection of top Bordeaux, the finest vintages of Domaine de la Romanée?Conti produced in the last 20 years, and a selection of Masseto and Ornellaia from the private cellar [Read More]
Bonhams sale of Antiquities on April 13 includes a beautiful but inscrutable Egyptian cat cast in bronze, with gold earrings, that dates from circa 664-32BC estimated to sell for £15,000 to £20,000. This charming hollow cast bronze cat is shown alert, sitting upright with the tail curled to the right side, the [Read More]
John Moran Auctioneers announce their March 8, 2011 Antiques Sale, featuring Continental furniture and decorative arts, silver, Native American artifacts, Persian rugs and mid-century modern design, as well as an eclectic selection of other items including American and European paintings, prints and bronzes. Following a very successful January Antiques sale, in which [Read More]
Sotheby’’s announce that it will offer in Hong Kong on the 7th April 2011 selections from one of the grandest collections of Chinese Art formed in the last century, The Meiyintang Collection. Assembled over a period of more than 50 years,is world-renowned for having brought together magnificent examples of Imperial Porcelain and [Read More]
A top-tier private collection of gold, platinum and precious-gem jewelry amassed over several decades will be featured in a single-session, no-reserve specialty auction at Morphy’s gallery on Feb. 26, 2011. The collection – whose consignors previously owned fine jewelry stores in Florida – consists primarily of superior-quality estate jewelry selected “with a [Read More]
Not only are prices sailing past the high estimates, but attendance is up, in-house and online. (WINDSOR, Conn.) – The economy may have turned the corner and is headed in a positive direction, if recent sale results posted by Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Inc., are an accurate barometer. Prices realized from December forward, [Read More]
The world’s largest auction of Château Lafite Rothschild (Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., America’s largest wine auction house, is pleased to announce The Lafite Auction, a sale devoted exclusively to the wines of Château Lafite Rothschild. This special sale will be held on March 19th in Chicago, and will [Read More]
Sotheby’s announced that Paris will become the company’s European centre for sales of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design and Photographs. Biannual sales in each category will be held at the Galerie Charpentier in May and November. From 2011, 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sales will be held exclusively in Paris. [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong announce the sale of an important private collection of contemporary Chinese Art on 3 April: The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant Garde China, offering 106 masterpieces from the legendary Collection, which are expected to bring a total of HK$100 million to HK$130 million / US$12.7 million to [Read More]
Antiques, Fine China, John Bell Pottery, Vintage Clothing, Dolls, Collectibles and Personal Property Gateway Gallery’s Winter Americana Estate Auction, February 19, 2011 will feature a wonderful collection of period furniture, textiles, sterling, early medical tools, prints, pottery and ceramics, and ephemera. The 400-plus lot auction will be held at Gateway Gallery’s auction [Read More]
Bonhams are to sell a truly unique motorcycle which has spectacularly covered over 1million kilometres at the hands of one careful owner. It will be auctioned at the International Motorcycle Show in Staffordshire on April 24th 2011 and has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 – £40,000. Fondly nicknamed Vinnylonglegs, this 1955 [Read More]
Stephenson’s Auction, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a full service auction company General Auction, Friday, February 11, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 11th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 18, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 18th 2PM-4PM General Auction, Friday, February 25, 2011 Inspection: Friday, February 25th 2PM-4PM Stephenson’s Auction 1005 Industrial Blvd Southampton, [Read More]
Jewellery and silver belonging to the daughter of the famous French society painter Paul Cesar Helleu, one of the models for a central character in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (sometimes known as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’),’ is to be auctioned at Bonhams in Edinburgh on 2 March. [Read More]