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The George III Goblet: a highly important enamelled Royal armorial goblet by William Beilby, circa 1762-63

The George III Goblet: a highly important enamelled Royal armorial goblet by William Beilby, circa 1762-63
THE DURRINGTON COLLECTION IMPORTANT BRITISH AND DUTCH GLASS
15 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge
£100,000 - £150,000. Bonhams,

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29288/lot/45/the-george-iii-goblet-a-highly-important-enamelled-royal-armorial-goblet-by-william-beilby-circa-1762-63/


Fine Turkish Silk Three Panel Embroidery, ca. 1800

Fine Turkish Silk Three Panel Embroidery, ca. 1800

LOT 0308
Estimate
$3,000-$5,000
Starting Price
$1,500, Grogan and Company,

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/fine-turkish-silk-three-panel-embroidery-ca-1800/


Large Mamluk gilded and enamelled footed glass bowl, Egypt or Syria, 14th century

Sold for 952,500 GBP 25 October 2023 Sotheby’s, An important large Mamluk gilded and enamelled footed glass bowl, Egypt or Syria, 14th century


AN EMBROIDERED PRAYER MAT IRAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

AN EMBROIDERED PRAYER MAT
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
Estimate
GBP 10,000 – GBP 15,000,

Sold for £982,800

https://www.christies.com


Chinese Embroidered Surcoat, Late 19th C.

Chinese Embroidered Surcoat, Late 19th C.

LOT 0259
Estimate
$4,000-$6,000, material culture,

Sold for $6,000

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/chinese-embroidered-surcoat-late-19th-c/


TERRIN MED LOCK OCH TRE FAT, FYRA DELAR

TERRIN MED LOCK OCH TRE FAT, FYRA DELAR
ESTIMATE
10.000 - 12.000 SEK
€ 900 - 1.100
HAMMER PRICE
13.000 SEK

Part of a service for the Swedish market with the motto 'Himlen waghte foten' and floral decoration in famille rose enamels. Period: Qianlong (1736–1795). Diameter: 26 cm, 32 cm,and 41.5 cm (dishes), length: 28.5 cm (tureen).

PROVENANCE
Baron Fredrik Ramels (1872‑1947) samling, därefter i arv.

https://www.uppsalaauktion.se/en/auctions/20240319/599-terrin-med-lock-och-tre-fat-fyra-delar/?auction_name=20240319&auction_days=2&restore=599&auctions=304&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR37IBc0l7Ylk3LjLQ9w3CwP6cQsmeUkdP9nWV-iAJsHdH_j8v-Eh1PZ1Fo_aem_ATKmfZ5CfbU_Io5hml5RS2PMWBC-_Y_hnJEbUiW_gZyS128_Lsvt-xb3PR479ZXL78DetVyRybWRbxljf2W61M8w


Caucasian Silk Embroidery

Caucasian Silk Embroidery

LOT 0076
Estimate
€2,500-€3,500
Austria auction company,Apr 06, 2024 4:00 PM GMT+2
Starting Price
€1,400

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/caucasian-silk-embroidery/


LARGE MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICK EGYPT OR SYRIA

LARGE MAMLUK SILVER-INLAID BRASS CANDLESTICK
EGYPT OR SYRIA, PERIOD OF SULTAN AL-NASIR AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BIN QALA'UN (1293-1341 AD), FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY

Important information about this lot

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VAT (reduced rate)
Estimate
GBP 180,000 – GBP 220,000, Christie’s,

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6476501?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6476501&from=salessummary&lid=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3bbbufjXA8guFSL4mri__enFrsVIHnAa3X9HgDOIgWtNTIVrvPhhIVjig_aem_ATKNfT4F83ijyOigH1Y9IE1cEDwfb0TpFlSzyUgooOTXLgY92cLxrRb737-zjmiarTIc3FW3d1Z0emayaxl9x_1Y


Illuminated album of nasta‘liq calligraphy by Mir Ali

An important illuminated album of nasta‘liq calligraphy by Mir Ali, Central Asia, Bukhara, dated 950 AH/1543 AD, with imperial Mughal library notes and inscriptions by the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan
VAT reduced rate
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 GBP, Sotheby’s

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/arts-of-the-islamic-world-and-india/an-important-illuminated-album-of-nastaliq?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3qRYNc5HtTR4A6kMswJQ655RwXOUOaAh-lqMyqbuoS0v8-T1bmH46pXdc_aem_ATI6G3W-Kt8XDSiU7BT_oat68mOkEi_slKjY2-pDldQbBovdihwszzF-Dj85A9LbXW5Gt3wvITb4NFOl5SP473DN


Paris Porcelain Ornithological Part-Dinner Service, Early 19th Century

Paris Porcelain Ornithological Part-Dinner Service, Early 19th Century
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD, each piece painted with a vignette of a named bird specimen in its natural habitat within a gray-ground border decorated with beribboned trophies around the rim, comprising:
2 soup tureens, covers and stands;
4 sauce tureens, covers and fixed stands in two forms;
94 dinner plates;
6 circular dishes;
and 19 soup plates without bird subjects,
specimen script marks, EMS monogram mark in black enamel, incised marks. 133 pieces.
width of tureen stands 15 3/8 in.
39.1 cm,

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/elegance-wonder-the-jordan-saunders-collection?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1i2-9lnEossssbUk-lBnJ01c3Px9XQjt6Ln8Xwepsh_ujm-E1gkFTjlJA_aem_AdNrFiBxt6Dlp9I3D--XGfHTXYWKHlRDeTDQXHz7ekvNIDrPkIQeUGi2q7bGN8uJZjYGzioHE5AlccrSCZoHb_IH


Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Urn

Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Urn

LOT 0091
Estimate
$3,000 -$5,000, Freeman auction,

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/a-gilt-bronze-mounted-sevres-style-porcelain-urn/


TIFFANY Antique Opaque Favrile Glass Vase

TIFFANY Antique Opaque Favrile Glass Vase, Sgn
LOT 0389
Estimate
$200-$500

Sold for $16,000

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/tiffany-antique-opaque-favrile-glass-vase-sgn/


Pair of Louis XV Silver Candlesticks, Jean Mauzié, Paris, 1734

Pair of Louis XV Silver Candlesticks, Jean Mauzié, Paris, 1734
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Louis XV Silver Candlesticks, Jean Mauzié, Paris, 1734
on circular bases with gadroon borders, chased with lappets on shaped matted ground, flaring circular stems with stopped flutes below female masks crowned with diadems, banded campana sconces, detachable plain circular nozzles; engraved with 19th century arms under a marquis' coronet, marked on underside with discharge mark on base rim, the nozzles with maker's mark GT crescent below
40 oz. 10 dwt.
1,256 g
height 9 1/4 in.
23.5 cm, Sotheby’s


French gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and burr cabinet, late 19th century, attributed to François Linke

A French gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and burr cabinet, late 19th century, attributed to François Linke

Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 GBP, Sotheby’s

A French gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and burr cabinet, late 19th century, attributed to François Linke the rectangular marble top above three doors each opening to two adjustable shelves, the top with numbers 2 / 4452 in black ink, the lock stamped 'CT LINKE / SERRURERIE / PARIS'

 133cm. high, 157cm. wide, 47cm. deep;

4ft. 4 3/8in., 5ft. 1 7/8in., 1ft. 6 1/2in.


Exemplaire provenant de la Bibliothèque d'Edme Sommier au Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte Le Cabinet du Roi, Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1723-1727.

Estimate
EUR 400,000 – EUR 600,000.

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY BOUND IN DARK BLUE MOROCCO WITH THE ROYAL COAT OF ARMS: THE MOST COMPLETE AND DESIRABLE EVER OFFERED.

The "Cabinet du Roi" refers to the engraved plates commissioned during the reign of Louis XIV and the works printed from them. This triumphal procession of paper was intended to celebrate the scientific advances, artistic achievements and military exploits of the monarch and his reign. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Controller of Finances, played a key role to its realization. He early understood that "the print, a work of art but also a multiple signifier, had its rightful place in an ambitious cultural policy aimed at making the world and posterity aware of the splendours of the reign of Louis XIV: through its impact, it was a perfect propaganda tool" (M. Grivel, Graver pour le roi, p. 21).

To execute this masterpiece, nothing was left to chance: the best engravers, burinists and aquafortists were called in, only quality paper and ink were used, and the copies were bound in gilt morocco. It was contrasting the formal austerity often favoured by booksellers of the period. The Cabinet du roi was the leather and paper embodiment of the splendours of the reign of Louis XIV. Once printed and bound, copies were frequently offered to princes and great lords, ecclesiastics, magistrates, scholars and, of course, ambassadors who, by virtue of their position, helped the plates to be distributed to all the courts of Europe, and indeed the whole world, as far afield as Constantinople, Asia and Persia.
During the 17th century, these thematically grouped plates were published in large folio volumes "covered in incarnate morocco". The idea of a "catalogue" or "cabinet" was not yet present in the minds of the genial instigators of this formidable publishing and artistic enterprise. The end of the reign of Louis XIV, marked by great financial difficulties, brought the distribution of engravings from the royal collections to a halt. The light of the Sun King no longer shone as brightly.

Nevertheless, successive guards of the king's library set about inventorying the stocks of prints and replenishing those that were missing, as well as expanding the collections. The Abbé de Louvois thus ordered the purchase of some of Van der Meulen's plates and those of Les Batailles by Sébastien de Pontault de Beaulieu.

During the Regency, Abbé Bignon, the King's librarian from 1719 onwards, completely redesigned and re-edited what was now called Le Cabinet du Roi. He condensed the palaces and houses, collections, festivals and royal conquests into 23 volumes. The scientific and cartographic volumes were removed. Starting in 1723, 50 copies were printed on large eagle paper and published a catalogue (reprinted in 1743).
Of these 50 copies, no one knows how many have survived. It is certain that the copy presented here, comprising 21 of the 23 volumes, superbly bound in blue morocco with the royal coat of arms, is the finest and most desirable in private hands.

21 large folio volumes (625 x 450 mm). illustrations: 794 engravings on 666 leaves. Contemporary binding probably exectued by the royal binder workshops: dark blue morocco, double framed with triple gilt fillet, gilt crowned cipher in the corners, royal gilt coat of arms in the centre of the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with crowned cipher and fleur-de-lys, gilt lettering, gilt edges.Christie’s