Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Spring Sale 2010, held on the 9th April, featured an Important and Superb Imperially Inscribed ‘Tai Shang Huang Di’ White Jade Seal, Yubi Mark and Period of Qianlong fetched HK$95,860,000 / US$12,289,744, establishing a world record for white jade and Imperial seal [Read More]
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On Wednesday, 28 April 2010, Sotheby’s London will offer for sale a collection of English furniture which – in its exceptional quality and aesthetic appeal – defines the connoisseurship and unfailing eye of two of the greatest protagonists ever to have worked in the furniture business: Francis Egerton and Peter Maitland. Together, [Read More]
Phillips de Pury sale of the Estate of Mrs. Harry N. Abrams sale offered a unique collection of 20TH Century American and European art with a focus on Post-War and Pop Art from a range of significant artists, attracting over 1000 registered bidders. “There was amazing energy throughout the sale. It demonstrates [Read More]
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art announces an online auction to include ten pieces of Richard Ritter’s glass sculpture featured in the retrospective exhibition, Richard Ritter: 40 Years of Glass. This auction offers an exclusive opportunity to purchase these pieces, some of which have not been offered for sale to the [Read More]
RM Auctions, will offer 43 vehicles from the famed Pate Museum of Transportation ‘without reserve’, June 5th in Cresson, Texas. Regarded as a prime example of ‘one Texan’s devotion to all things mobile’, the Pate Museum was the result of over 40 years of judicious collecting by the late Aggie Pate, former [Read More]
Maitri San Francisco (www.maitrisf.org), the only AIDS-specific residential care facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, has announced its signature gala and auction, BLISS 2010. This year’s event will take place on Sunday, May 2nd from 6-10pm at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s historic Presidio and will be headlined by [Read More]
Leading fleet insurance brokers Staveley Head have welcomed the news that the motor charity BEN plans to launch a new Fleet Disposal Contribution Plan (FDCP). This will see lease and rental agencies working with auction houses, in order to raise money for selected good causes when disposing of vehicles. It is expected [Read More]
An outstanding collection of Blue and White Porcelain assembled by the renowned ceramics expert Geoffrey Godden is to be auctioned at Bonhams on Wednesday 30th June. Godden’s encyclopaedic knowledge has earned him the nickname ‘God’ to many in the ceramics field, and this collection, many items of which are included in his [Read More]
BizAuctions, Inc., a prime provider of commercial eBay and Amazon liquidation services for excess inventories, overstocks and returns, enters into a Joint-Venture Agreement with La Jolla Liquidation & Auction Co. for the liquidation of the furniture, fixtures, and equipment from the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Delmar Janovec, CEO [Read More]
A rare and flawless blue 5.16 carat diamond that was once part of the De Beers Millennium Collection has been sold for $6.4m (£4.2m) at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. Auctioneers Sotheby’s had estimated the diamond at between $4.6 million and $5.8 million, it sold to London gem merchant Alisa Moussaieff who said [Read More]
Christie’s New York has announced it will offer Edvard Munch’s Fertility (estimate: $25-35 million) – one of the most important works by the artist remaining in private hands – as the cover lot of its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 4. Painted in the late 1890s, Fertility [Read More]
Proxibid, the world’s largest provider of live auction webcasting services, today announced that the Company has experienced its most successful month to-date. Proxibid shattered records for online sales, new bidder account creations and the number of events hosted in a single month. Online sales for the month of March increased 56% over [Read More]
Antec, Inc., the global leader in high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets, is proud to announce its online auction to benefit Haitian relief. Two one-of-a-kind modded gaming chassis will be up for auction from April 7 until April 15: The “BULLET,” a modified Antec Six [Read More]
CQout, an international online marketplace and auction community, has set its sights on enticing new sellers who are currently trading elsewhere to sign up and list their inventory, by offering free online shop fronts. Following on closely from its 10th anniversary celebrations and a series of expansion plans into America, CQout has [Read More]
One of the earliest known hand-coloured impressions of a 20th century iconic image, Edvard Munch’s Madonna, is being offered for sale at Bonhams Print sale on 13 July 2010. It is estimated to fetch between £500,000 – 700,000. The museum quality impression, which has never been seen in public, is signed and [Read More]
Sierra Auction Management, Inc., a Phoenix, Arizona-based public auction company, announced the launch of a newly redesigned website that will enhance the ability for the general public to view, search and obtain information related to the sale of government and other agency surplus, seized and abandoned vehicles, equipment and personal property at [Read More]
A unique and fascinating painting goes under the hammer at Bonhams in the 19th and 20th Century Pictures and Prints sale in Edinburgh on 22 April. Although the signature on the painting of Broughty Ferry Harbour, Dundee, is that of Ian Morrison the work is actually by two of Scotland’s most famous [Read More]
Sotheby’s Amsterdam will auction impressive garden sculptures and architectural ornaments from the Piet Jonker collection on Wednesday 26th May, 2010. The auction will have 350 high quality lots that have been selected personally by Piet Jonker and Sotheby’s specialists. Numerous sculptures, fountains, benches, tables, vases, flower pots and other works of art [Read More]