7 juillet 2011

Francesco Guardi, Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon (detail), oil on canvas, 120 x 203.7cm. Estimate 15,000,000-25,000,000 GBP - Lot Sold: 26,697,250 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. LONDON.- Tonight Sotheby’s London Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale was led by Francesco Guardi’s monumental masterpiece Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon, which established the highest price of the week of London Old Master Sales when it sold for an... [Lire la suite]

Rare plaque en porcelaine peinte de la Manufacture Impériale de St Petersbourg,sous le règne de Nicolas 1er (1825-1855). Photo ADJUG'ART à décor dune scène dintérieur représentant une servante et sa maîtresse, signée en bas à gauche CEMENOV 1843, annotée au dos (con fidence) et marque de la Manufacture Impériale - 34 x 25,5 cm. Estimation : 12 000/15 000€ Rare pommeau de canne en jade orné d'une médaille en argent et argent doré. Russie, St Petersbourg, circa 1900. Photo ADJUG'ART décorée en émail translucide du... [Lire la suite]

LONDON.- Tonight Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Treasures: Princely Taste was led by the sale of a magnificent pair of Italian carved giltwood settees created for one of the most sumptuous Rococo interiors in Italy - the Gilded Gallery of Palazzo Carrega Cataldi. Setting a record at auction for Italian seating furniture when they sold, to a round of applause, for £1,721,250/$2,763,639/¤1,923,495, the settees sold for over three times the pre-sale high estimate of £300,000 -£500,000*.  A pair of Italian carved giltwood... [Lire la suite]

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