The auction will be held Saturday, April 11th, at the firm’s gallery located in Windsor, Conn. WINDSOR, Conn. – Original artworks by Grandma Moses, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Charles Marion Russell and Charles Ethan Porter, plus outstanding period furniture pieces and items in many other categories, will be sold at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery’s [Read More]
The table was the top achiever out of 750 or so lots offered. The sale grossed around $2 million. GENESEO, N.Y. – A lovely 18th century Virginia Queen Anne tray-top tea table, having a scalloped skirt, pad feet and a fine old refinish, sold for $299,000 at a two-day Fine Art & [Read More]
Chicago, IL – Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. is pleased to announce our annual “Celebration of Burgundy,” an auction devoted exclusively to the wines of Burgundy. This special 1,440 lot sale will be held on March 28th in Chicago and is estimated to fetch $2,747,040-$4,103,630. With worldwide demand for Burgundy at an [Read More]
Military buffs and those with an appreciation of the art of chivalric combat will be keen to hear that several suits of armour – including two fine equestrian examples – hailing from a single, private collection will be coming up for auction at a museum sale on Saturday, 28th March. Until recently [Read More]
Some interesting items of taxidermy look set to cause a stir amongst collectors when they go under the hammer later this month as part of an auction of former exhibits of the Stratford Armouries Museum. West Midlands’ auctioneers, Cuttlestones, has been commissioned to sell the collection based on the continued success of [Read More]
A Tiffany Studios hall lantern was the top lot in an auction that had stunning items in many categories. PITTSFIELD, Mass. – A Tiffany Studios Moorish-style hall lantern, 34 inches tall and with an excellent original overall gilt finish, lit up the room when it finished at $133,100 at a cataloged auction [Read More]
London – A unique and impressive 18 carat gold and diamond gentleman’s skeleton wristwatch by the Swiss luxury watchmaker Corum is estimated to sell for £100,000-150,000 as part of Roseberys Fine Art auction on Tuesday 24 March. Commissioned and designed exclusively as a one-off timepiece for Middle Eastern nobility in 1982, the [Read More]
Donnington Priory – Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions are pleased to announce their first Luxury Accessories event of 2015. The auctions of Fine Jewellery, Watches, Pens & Luxury Accessories will be held at Donnington Priory on Thursday 26th March 2015. Jewellery Highlights This early Victorian turquoise, garnet and diamond serpent necklace, circa 1840, [Read More]
London – The February Fine Wine sale saw yet another big step forward for the wine department at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions, with a sale that far surpassed any previous wine sale for the firm. With the sale totalling £279,000 over 402 lots, it highlighted the benefits of the company’s joint venture [Read More]
Donnington Priory – The March 25th Fine Pictures sale is James Harvey’s first at the helm following his appointment in 2014, as International Head of Fine Art and Private Treaty sales for the recently enlarged Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. Featuring artists that include John Frederick Herring the Elder, George Morland, E. W. [Read More]
Paintings by Thomas Hill, Daniel Ridgway Knight and Hans Hoffmann have already been consigned. MILFORD, Conn. – Quality consignments are currently being accepted for a fine art auction slated for Thursday, April 23rd, at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, in the firm’s gallery located at 354 Woodmont Road in Milford. Around 250 works [Read More]
London – Bloomsbury Auctions are delighted to present their sale of Continental, English & Middle Eastern Books & Manuscripts on Thursday 19th March in London at their saleroom in Mayfair. The sale charts the development of printing on the continent and in England, with works dating from the 1470s up until the [Read More]
On March 12th, Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers will auction the distinctive Lifetime Collection of American Indian Jewelry of an Ohio Lady. DELAWARE , Ohio – The collection is comprised of over 200 lots of Native American jewelry including necklaces, cuffs, rings, pendants, and belt buckles. Gemstones such as turquoise from Battle Mountain, [Read More]
The first Asian sale (10 February 2015) at Chiswick Auctions was a great success making over £125,000 including premium. Particularly good results were achieved in the fields of cloisonné, paintings, bamboo carving, porcelain and scholar’s objects. Following the success of the Ming exhibition at the British Museum two star lots had strong [Read More]
An impressive group of decorative bronzes taken from a single, private collection will go under the hammer on Saturday 28th March as part of a major auction of arms, armour and items of military interest. The works, which depict figures of historical and military significance such as Leonardo Da Vinci, a Bedouin [Read More]
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (LAPRS) – Imagine the grandeur of an auction held onsite at Palazzo Borghese, home to the noble and Vatican-connected Borghese clan. Take it a step further and pretend the auction offerings include actual artworks and other family treasures from the stately Roman palace and library. Just such a thing [Read More]
Along with antiques and collectibles, a prime 24-acre parcel of riverfront land will also be sold. ATLANTA, Ga. – Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery will usher in the spring with a two-day estates auction on March 21st and 22nd that’s filled with more than 1,000 premier lots ranging from Asian objects to [Read More]
MONTROSE, Calif. – Among antiquities connoisseurs, there are two non-negotiables when considering a new acquisition: authenticity and the assurance that a dealer will stand behind their merchandise. It was those two principles that served as the foundation for Gabriel Vandervort’s Ancient Resource auction house. A former writer and producer of ancient-history documentaries [Read More]