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Egyptian Mummy Bead Face Mask with Four Sons of Horus

SOLD for £450 on February 23, 2021, 10:00 AM GMT Live Auction Harwich, United Kingdom

THE RAN FU BING HE

18th March 2021

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION
THE RAN FU BING HE A RARE AND FINELY CAST BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD WINE VESSEL AND COVER, HE
LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY BC
Estimate
USD 450,000 - USD 550,000 Christie’s Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-the-ran-fu-bing-hea-rare-and-6306304/?from=salesummary&intObjectID=6306304&lid=1&ldp_breadcrumb=back&fbclid=IwAR3fCIVkFHiW5Fxdo4MJllBhPvOx47lf5kRgzz85I8tPdpSkdWbNIZvaFKc


AN IMPERIAL EMBROIDERED YELLOW SILK CUSHION COVER 19TH CENTURY

18th of March, Christie’s Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND PRIVATE COLLECTION

Estimate
USD 8,000 - USD 12,000  


A LARGE NINGXIA 'DRAGON' CARPET NORTH CHINA, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

SOLD for $43,750 on March 18 , 2021, Christie’s Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION ( I personally would have banned auction houses from such a vague phrases)

Estimate
USD 25,000 - USD 35,000

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-large-ningxia-dragon-carpet-north-china-6306287/?from=searchresults&intObjectID=6306287&fbclid=IwAR3fCIVkFHiW5Fxdo4MJllBhPvOx47lf5kRgzz85I8tPdpSkdWbNIZvaFKc


NORTH ITALIAN BAROQUE CARVED WALNUT CABINET

SOLD for $1,500 on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+2 Los Angeles, CA, USA

LOT 0012
Estimate $1,000 - $1,500
Starting bid:
$500
Abell Auction
Los Angeles, CA, USA, Abell Fine Art, Antiques, & Jewelry Auction
For more : https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/97603039_north-italian-baroque-carved-walnut-cabinet?fbclid=IwAR2DYsGR8ibuPHM08s3K5js8Ujb5-gsArpm-TWjETxzw4uUpj9awzfN5dGs


Rare Irish George II Carved Mahogany Side Table circa 1760

SOLD for $130,000 on Feb 12, 2021 at the Brunk auction

LOT 0443
Estimate was $30,000 - $50,000

Rare Irish George II Carved Mahogany Side Table circa 1760 with finely grained single board mahogany top, resting on a boldly carved stand with leaf, scroll, and rocaille ornament in deep relief on a stippled and diapered ground, skirt centering a carved winged mask of Venus issuing from a shell, deeply carved cabriole legs resting on scroll feet, 30-1/2 x 59 x 31 in.Exhibited: Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840, Art Institute of Chicago, 2015, illustrated in the accompanying catalog, pg. 135, catalog no. 238.This table is also illustrated in The Knight of Glin and James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale University Press, 2007, catalog 85, pg. 226. - Provenance: V. Ethel Crosby; sold from her estate Sotheby's, New York, April 24-25, 1992, lot 484; Mallett Inc. (exhibition catalog indicates private collection by arrangement with Mallett); Estate of Robert K. Johnson, Aiken, South Carolina.


LANCASHIRE OAK AND CHEQUER STRUNG PRESS CUPBOARD EARLY 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

SOLD for £2,000 on 10th February 2021

Lot 29 (Five Centuries: Furniture, Paintings & Works of Art)

Dated and initialled IB 1709, the superstructue with a moulded cornice above a wheel carved frieze over doors carved with leaf and flower motifs; the base with four short drawers with chamferred panels fronts, above a pair of triple panel cupboard doors similary carved, raised on stile feet
153cm wide, 183cm high, 52cm deep

Estimate
£2,000 - £3,000

https://www.lyonandturnbull.com/auction/lot/29-lancashire-oak-and-chequer-strung-press-cupboard/?lot=234459&fbclid=IwAR0FRA2Ed292Qx0Lr9e9d5GUSM2qVchmJqanF8a3pePElz1J7m8V3wgfOa4


1937 Bugatti Type 57 Surbaisse 3.3-Litre Four-Seat Sports Grand Routier 'Dulcie'

SOLD for £4 million on 19 Feb 2021, starting at 17:00 GMT with lot 1. London, New Bond Street

This Friday, the 1937 Bugatti Type 57 Surbaisse 3.3-Litre Four-Seat Sports Grand Routier 'Dulcie' will be offered at the Legends of the Road sale in London and online at Bonhams.com. ⁠ One of only 42 produced, this outstanding Bugatti will be offered with no reserve and carries an estimate of £5,000,000 – 7,000,000.⁠

Coachwork by Corsica of Cricklewoood, London Registration no. DUL 351 Chassis no. 57503 Engine no. 16S
£ 5,000,000 - 7,000,000
ZAR 100,000,000 - 140,000,000
To be sold without reserve

Legends of the Road⁠
19 February 2021⁠
London, New Bond Street⁠

Browse the auction and register to bid: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26947/lot/105/

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26947/?fbclid=IwAR1Hdylrfd3qRiRXWBn9kCiFcLbW5o3GFPfTwKUUhUOOXDxNGeBkEMJYpMo


ITALIAN SILK FLOSS WALL HANGING

SOLD for $5,000 on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+2 Los Angeles, CA, USA ,

Hand Knotted Rug Upholstered Ball / Claw Stool

PASSED in Auction: Mon, Feb 15, 2021 6:00 PM GMT+2 Houston, TX, USA,

LOT 0201
Estimate $300 - $450

Gallery Auctions
Houston, TX, USA, Today: American & British Antiques + Stained Glass
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/98054054_hand-knotted-rug-upholstered-ball-claw-stool?fbclid=IwAR1cDuMvwEPdQOeJ8y-rMmD4XOpgQL_yrbPuzCTgvuZeGEnOwzvQGzhndU0


A VICTORIAN WALNUT CHAISE LOUNGUE, of elegant scrolling form with deep buttons

PASSED in Auction on February 20, 2021, 10:00 AM GMT

Lot 606: A VICTORIAN WALNUT CHAISE LOUNGUE, of elegant scrolling form with deep buttons

Est: £200 - £300
£180 0 bids

Elstob and Elstob

Ripon, United Kingdom,

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/a-victorian-walnut-chaise-longue-of-elegant-scrol-606-c-fac458e951?fbclid=IwAR3PFgcnUW4la1oXfi4CFo3NzHDe6zkiyFycu_wCT8mzz3fXfb1BDYFU4x4


Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan, 12' X 16'4"

PASSED in Autction Tue, Feb 09, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+2

Estimate $15,000 - $20,000

Capital Rug & Home Auction - No Reserve

Washington, DC, USA pasargad auction, for more:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/192660_capital-rug-and-home-auction-no-reserve/?fbclid=IwAR0i_3uqxyBEQgs50QCIj2h1aEyVqnxOd60DkiDRZFGVu7FtxenvBVq69Jg


Persian blue and red carpet

SOLD for €3,800 on February 17, 2021, 5:30 PM CET Madrid, Spain

Pair of Important American Aesthetic Carved Oak Throne Chairs , c. 1881-1882, Herter Brothers,

SOLD for $225,000 on 6 February 2021 at the Neal Auction

Pair of Important American Aesthetic Carved Oak Throne Chairs , c. 1881-1882, Herter Brothers, New York, each with carved ogee crest over padded back and seat flanked by stiles carved with anthemia and bosses continuing to paneled sides with a carved trompe l'oeil drape, arabesques and ribbon garlands behind gryphon term stiles and over massive paw front feet and plinth base. h. 41 in, w. 38 in., d. 33 in., together with original under upholstery present, removed, consisting of cotton batting covered with brown mohair velvet presumably the base for a top cushion, also included approximately a yard of French gimp.

Note: This remarkable pair of chairs was commissioned for the ground floor atrium of the William Vanderbilt Residence, an Italianate compound for Vanderbilt and his daughters filling a city block at 640 5th Avenue in New York City. The finest and largest house on Fifth Avenue of the 1880s, it was estimated to have employed 600 workmen for its construction, and represented Herter Brothers’ most important design commission. It was also one of the most well documented houses of “Vanderbilt Row” as a 160 page folio, Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection, Volume I, complete with colored photographs, engravings, and elaborate descriptions by Edward Strahan, nom de plume for art critic Earl Shinn. The chairs offered here are illustrated in two plates and two different engraved illustrations in Mr. Vanderbilt’s House. The atrium where these chairs were placed was a two-story galleried space faced in rosso antico marble and lavishly hung with tapestries. Though the ground floor atrium was dubbed the “Egyptian Room,” Herter Brothers worked with a broad selection of historical forms for the furnishings. The chairs offered here are adapted from the ancient Egyptian Royal thrones and the ancient Roman Solium form. The Herter designers were well aware that the Solium was an armed chair usually carved with gryphon terms from a single block of wood or stone to be used by a Roman master of the house when he received visitors in his atrium. Visitors to Vanderbilt’s atrium likely found it fitting that the Solium was an easily recognized form of Sella Curulis (Roman State) chairs and Egyptian royal thrones. Also in the Vanderbilt atrium were a pair of large Herter Brothers carved oak console tables, one surviving in the collection of the Dallas Museum of Art (no. 1996-213 A-E).

Careful study indicates that while the table and chairs are not strictly en suite, they harmonize together with shared materials and motifs, as did many of the other decorations in the house. Though the term supports on the tables differ (from gryphons on the chairs and human forms on the tables), various carved moldings, the ribboned garlands, and the playful tromp l’oeil carved wood tapestries are prominent in both tables and chairs. Completed in 1882, 640 5th Avenue served as William Vanderbilt’s residence for three years until his 1885 death in its library. Vanderbilt’s heirs leased the house to Henry Clay Frick among others until 1915 when Cornelius and Grace Vanderbilt moved in. Bye the early 20th century the elaborate furnishings had become passe; the house was gutted and the furnishings dispersed. The few surviving Herter examples from the William Vanderbilt commission are only known in museum collections (including the Metropolitan Museum of art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the High Museum, Atlanta) and the chairs offered here. Ref.: Edward Strahan. Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection, Volume I, Boston-New York-Philadelphia: George Barrie (1883-1884) p. 21, 24 (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/704714); Stephen Harrison, "Vanderbilt Console," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 237; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. “Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, Herter Brothers and the William H. Vanderbilt House.” Antiques and Fine Art (Spring 2016).


A SPANISH WALNUT COMMODE 18th Century

Ending from: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:12 GMT.

LOT 13
A SPANISH WALNUT COMMODE
18th Century

£ 3,000 - 4,000 Bonhams The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair
The Online Auction
Online only - in progress
London, New Bond Street
A SPANISH WALNUT COMMODE
18th Century
Of small proportions, with an inlaid top, above the drawers, on bracket feet, 78cm wide x 48cm deep x 88cm high, (30 1/2in wide x 18 1/2in deep x 34 1/2in high) for more :

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26948/lot/13/?category=list&length=345&page=1&fbclid=IwAR3-4ue2OS3bzb3HaevfR079_AHupLWIKVynYK1yOpeJC96Bs_5Olp4n8dQ


Violin 13 15/16'' one piece back, branded on back 'G.B.G' in rectangular box

PASSED in Auction on Wed 10th Feb, 2021

Lot 3007 of 120:. Violin 13 15/16'' one piece back, branded on back 'G.B.G' in rectangular box, handwritten label reads 'Gio. Batista Gabbrielli fecit in Firenze 1750' Categories: Violins, Violas and Cellos

Estimate: £4,000 - £5,000 at Tennants auction, Scientific & Musical Instruments, Cameras & Tools

The Auction Centre, Leyburn
Starts 10:30am for more :

https://bid.tennants.co.uk/m/view-auctions/catalog/id/935?page=1&items=200&fbclid=IwAR399jvbIZy670aKvsxa1rd7BJHq1mIDqP5WGhJWnUCWYir551zqi0m1QoY


CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, GUI

SOLD for $14,000 on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+2 Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Estimate $15,000 - $20,000

Starting bid:
$8,000

Lot 0356 Details
DESCRIPTION

late Shang Dynasty 9 3/4 inches wide; 6 7/8 inches high. Abell Fine Art, Antiques, & Jewelry Auction

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/97603729_chinese-archaic-bronze-ritual-vessel-gui?fbclid=IwAR2dcra3lKotG0dIHPOFnDP5TB87j_vgMSGMcMEwNJLocKSQNkABPRJ7RJ4


Uniform of a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta in the Grand Priory of Bohemia and Austria around 1900

02/17/2021, 3:00 p.m. - Vienna | Palais Dorotheum

Lot No. 239

Starting bid:
EUR 3,800 .
USD 4,600 . Antique Arms, Uniforms and Militaria

Exhibition: February 10th. - 17.02.2021
Exhibition: 10.02. - 17.02.2021 . For more :

https://www.dorotheum.com/en/a/75349/?fbclid=IwAR3ekHUp1ScgX0R3RF5Rby0kQqC7BSryYlFGkfMtEHp9vg-dSlm_7NXzvY8#7065862


A PAIR OF LARGE JAPANESE IMARI VASES AND COVERS, ON STANDS LATE 19TH CENTURY

SOLD for £20,000 on 25 Feb 6AM (EST)

Estimate
GBP 20,000 - GBP 30,000 , Christie’s 4 Feb 6AM -  | Online 20039
Patrick Moorhead: Hidden Treasures.

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/patrick-moorhead-hidden-treasures/lots/1975?fbclid=IwAR1pX8sZAjt_FzXeY8Yn4sKTwLgnfbMxOAe-_7BrCrxYxmfrrHtFdOqCeQQ


FINE GERMAN TAPESTRY CIRCA 1600

Ending from: 12 Feb 2021 at 20:35 GMT.


£ 6,000 - 7,000 Bonhams The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair
The Online Auction
Online only - in progress
London, New Bond Street
FINE GERMAN TAPESTRY
Depicting King David and Abigail, this fine tapestry has wonderful detail and a beautiful colour palette. The technique suggests an German origin. Very minor restoration, 58cm wide x 58cm high (mounted)
Footnotes
From Aaron Nejad Gallery. For more : 

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26948/lot/336/?category=list&length=345&page=1


MOHTASHAM KASHAN CARPET

SOLD for $7,000 on Sun, Feb 21, 2021 8:00 PM GMT+2 Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Estimate $4,000 - $6,000

Starting bid :
$2,000

Provenance: The Eva and Loran Whitelock Estate to benefit the Loran and Eva Whitelock Fund for Cycad Cultivation, Conservation, and Research at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, & Botanical Gardens 14' x 22'4". Abell Fine Art, Antiques, & Jewelry Auction

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/193652_abell-fine-art-antiques-and-jewelry-auction/


COLLECTOR RUGS V - NO RESERVE

AUCTION RESULTS: Sat, Feb 27, 2021 5:00 PM GMT+2

Austria Auction Company

Vienna, AT
Auction Details
194 antique oriental rugs and kilims. All on offer with no reserve. For more :

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/193033_collector-rugs-v-no-reserve/?pageSize=all&fbclid=IwAR2oBaHbK9pwWKi4TJ3UxDZT6glWoIDFkPVQ_MTOqSQM83zA8g5VQGui2ZQ