Bonhams sale of Islamic and Indian Art on October 4th at New Bond Street attracted stiff competition for the best items, boosting prices way beyond pre-sale estimates. The cover lot, A 16th century Iznik bottle flask from a private Belgian collection, estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000 made £184,850. This important [Read More]
A World Auction Record was set for Ming Porcelain at Sotheby’s Hong Kong today when an Outstanding Blue and White Imperial Vase, Ming Dynasty, sold for HK$168,660,000 / US$21,623,077. The ten-minute phone bidding battle in a crowded Hong Kong saleroom was won by Nicolas Chow, Sotheby’s International Head of Chinese Ceramics and [Read More]
An important American copper urn designed by Frank Lloyd Wright from the Edward C. Waller house in River Forest, Illinois sold for $772,000 on Monday at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. The urn, estimated at $400,000-600,000, sold to a Florida private collector. It is not clear how many urns were produced or have survived, [Read More]
Skinner Inc. today announced its fall auction of American Furniture and Decorative Arts will be held in its Boston gallery on Sunday, October 30, 2011. The sale features the early photography collection of Rod MacKenzie as well as American lighting, fine American furniture – both formal and paint-decorated – folk art, marine [Read More]
An important painting by Frank Auerbach entitled E.O.W., Nude on Bed is one of the highlights of the 20th Century British and Irish art sale, taking place on the 16th November at Bonhams New Bond Street. Estimated at £500,000- 800,000, the painting has been consigned from a North American Institution and has [Read More]
The extensive, never-before seen collection is being offered by a prominent Alabama physician. (ATLANTA, Ga.) – An extraordinary, never-before seen private collection of fine clocks, music boxes and musical instruments will be sold Saturday, Oct. 22, by Great Gatsby’s, at 11 a.m. (EST), in the Great Gatsbys’s showroom at 5180 Peachtree Industrial [Read More]
(Chicago, IL) – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co., the number one wine auction house in America and internationally renowned retailer, will hold an exciting auction of finest and rarest wines on October 29th at award-winning restaurant Tru, located at 676 North St. Clair Street in Chicago. The auction will begin promptly at [Read More]
The Comic Art of Playboy: Over Five Decades of Illustration and Cartoons, more than 85 paintings, illustrations and cartoons that graced the legendary men’s magazine – led by pieces like Alberto Vargas’ Darling, It’s My Hat I Want Your Opinion On, Vargas Girl Playboy Pin-Up from April 1963 (estimate: $30,000+) – will [Read More]
The sale on 20th October contains 720 lots and includes many wines from the world famous wine critic, Robert Parker’s ‘Magical 20’ list. Among his 100 point wines offered are three dozen Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1982 (£10,000-12,000) and two cases of 1986 vintage (£6,500-7,500), a dozen Lafite Rothschild 1986 (£10,000-15,000) and five [Read More]
A solid gold presentation snuff box with a monogrammed ‘N’ for Napoleon on the lid is for sale at Bonhams Fine Silver sale in London on 23 November. Napoleon gold snuff box (£20,000-30,000) It was one of 100 gold boxes made for the Emperor in 1806 as gifts for friends, family, diplomats [Read More]
The 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom ridden by The Fonz in the television hit series Happy Days will be one of the highlights at Bonhams’ upcoming Classic California Sale in Los Angeles. 1949 Triumph Trophy TR5 Scrambler Custom Happy Days, the beloved American sitcom that aired for ten years from 1974 [Read More]
On October 17 Ayyam Auctions will present Art and Antiques of the Islamic World: The Ottoman Levant Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. As the inaugural event of a new series of public sales, this forthcoming auction will offer over 50 lots of masterworks with a special emphasis on artifacts from the [Read More]
The first printed depiction of one of the most famous buildings in the world, the Taj Mahal, was sold for £31,250 today (October 4) at Bonhams ‘India and Beyond: Travel and Photography’ sale in London. It had been estimated at £30,000-35,000. It is included in a volume of aquatint views of India [Read More]
A John Lennon handwritten letter to a fan supporting Maharishi’s transcendental mediation movement will be auctioned at Nate D. Sanders’ Tuesday October 11, 2011 auction. Lennon wrote to Jean, “You are searching for ‘something’ (truth) the same as everyone else – whether they know it or not.” He added that they were [Read More]
The auction was held Sept. 24 at the former home of the late Bradley Jackson in Jaffrey, N.H. (JAFFREY, N.H.) – An AC Spark Plugs tin die-cut flange sign, dated 1936 and featuring the iconic “Sparky” logo, sold for $2,310 at an on-site estate sale held Sept. 24 by Matthews Auctions, LLC, [Read More]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Autumn 2011 Sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings achieved HK$82.8 million / US$10.6 million, more than doubling the presale estimate (HK$33 million / US$4.2 million*), and achieving the Second Highest Sale Total For A Various-Owner Sale Of This Category At Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Hendra Gunawan, Tuak Manis [Read More]
A GLEAMING brass bell from RMS Mauretania (sister of Lusistania, c.1906), which latterly hung in Cunard’s offices in the Liver Building in Liverpool will be offered by Charles Miller Ltd on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 in his sale of Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Art in London (25, Blythe Road, W14). [Read More]
Sotheby’s report spirited bidding for top-quality works at the second installment of the Ullens Collection auctions in Hong Kong. Sotheby’s auction featuring Zeng Fanzhi’s The Mask Series, 1998 No.26. Photo: Sotheby’s. Holding the sale in a packed house populated by dozens of mainland Chinese, alongside local buyers and dealers, Sotheby’s saw opening [Read More]