14 mai 2010
Grand succès pour la vente de Haute Joaillerie chez Sotheby’s

14 mai 2010
Once in a Lifetime Jade Collection Sells for £2.3M at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art Sale Which Totalled £6.6M in London

14 mai 2010
Des prix déments pour des cornes de rhinocéros chez NAGEL
Two rhinohorns. © 2010 Nagel - Auctions
unmounted - Weight: 3,16 and 1,18 Kg - L. 48/25 cm - Estimate € 8 000,00. Hammer price € 49 000,00
Property from the German officer Johannes hunted between 1895 and 1901 - Weight: 3,16 and 1,18 Kg
Two rhinohorns. © 2010 Nagel - Auctions
mounted on a wood stand - Weight: 1,74 Kg - L. 30/17 cm. Estimate € 5000,00. Hammer price € 21 000,00
Property from the German officer Johannes hunted between 1895 and 1901
Two rhinohorns. © 2010 Nagel - Auctions
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14 mai 2010
Rare Roman Marble Relief Leads Christie's Auction of Antiquities
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the sale of Antiquities on June 10, which will offer over 150 lots with a stunning selection of Roman marbles, Greek helmets and vases, and Egyptian art. The highlight of the sale is a rare Roman marble relief from the Julio-Claudian period, circa early 1st century A.D., that depicts the Emperor Tiberius standing before a seated Genius with the goddess Concordia between them as intermediary. This outstanding Imperial commission, perhaps from an altar or other civic monument, is superbly sculpted in... [Lire la suite]
14 mai 2010
Qing dynasty monochromes @ Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 12 May 10. London
A very fine and rare flambe-glazed bottle vase. Qianlong impressed six-character sealmark and period. photo Sotheby's
the slightly compressed globular body with moulded horizontal ribs around the waist and shoulder, covered overall in a flambe glaze of deep reddish-purple tone lightly mottled with milky pale blue to the body and the rim, the foot unglazed exposing the biscuit, the base covered in a caramel-brown glaze - 41cm., 16 1/8 in. Est. 60,000—80,000 GBP. Lot Sold 481,250 GBP
PROVENANCE: John Sparks Ltd., London.
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