AN EMBROIDERED PRAYER MAT
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
Estimate
GBP 10,000 – GBP 15,000,
Sold for £982,800
AN EMBROIDERED PRAYER MAT
IRAN, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER
Estimate
GBP 10,000 – GBP 15,000,
Sold for £982,800
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/
A Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Mantel Clock, the Case Attributed to Robert Osmond, the Movement Signed Richard Fevrier, Dated 1776
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD, Sotheby’s,
Sold for 3,175 USD
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MOLLY REINHART, NEW YORK NY
A Meissen Teapot and Cover, A Milk Jug and Cover, and A Cup and Saucer, Circa 1745
No reserve
Reserves
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD, Sotheby’s,
Sold for $1,397
SILK BROCADE PANEL
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH
Estimate
GBP 3,000 – GBP 5,000,
Sold for GBP 2,520
GIBSON INCORPORATED, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, 1958
A SEMI-HOLLOWBODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, ES-335 TDN
Important information about this lot
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Endangered/protected species
Estimate
GBP 60,000 – GBP 90,000, Christie’s,
GIBSON INCORPORATED, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, 1959
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, LES PAUL STANDARD
Important information about this lot
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Endangered/protected species
Estimate
GBP 300,000 – GBP 500,000, Christie’s,
Flemish (Brussels) Tapestry
LOT 0591
Estimate
$8,000-$12,000
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/flemish-brussels-tapestry/
TERRIN MED LOCK OCH TRE FAT, FYRA DELAR
ESTIMATE
10.000 - 12.000 SEK
€ 900 - 1.100
HAMMER PRICE
13.000 SEK
Sold for 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.
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, 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,
AN EXCEPTIONAL LARGE SAFAVID FIGURAL VELVET PANEL
IRAN, FIRST THIRD 17TH CENTURY
Estimate
GBP 400,000 – GBP 600,000, Christie’s
Sold for GBP 478,800
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
Sold for 215,900 GBP
Rare Safavid silk tomb cover, Persia, dated 1110 AH/1698-99 AD
VAT reduced rate
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP, Sotheby’s
A rare intact Abbasid lustre pottery bowl depicting a griffin, Iraq, 9th/10th century
Margin Scheme
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP, Sotheby’s,
Sold for 101,600 GBP
Regency gilt-bronze and stained-glass hall lantern, circa 1815, attributed to George Bullock
UK: Greenford Park Warehouse
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 GBP
Sold for 24,130 GBP, Sotheby’s
Régence black-japanned commode, circa 1725
UK: Greenford Park Warehouse
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP, Sotheby’s
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,
Sold for 27,940 USD
Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Urn
LOT 0091
Estimate
$3,000 -$5,000, Freeman auction,
Sold for $6,000
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/a-gilt-bronze-mounted-sevres-style-porcelain-urn/
Pair of gilded and patinated bronze statuettes from the Empire period, 19th century, after Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810)
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR, Sotheby’s,
Sold for 6,985 EUR
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
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
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.
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
A Venetian glass enamelled and gilt footed bowl, early 16th century
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Sold for 25,400 GBP
The Hopkins Family Block-and-Shell Carved Mahogany Kneehole Bureau,
probably Providence, Rhode Island, c. 1790.
THE WILLIAM DANA LIPPMAN COLLECTION SPLENDOR OF AMERICAN FURNITURE BONHAMS SKINNER
14 November 2023, 10:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts
Sold for US$108,450 inc. premium
Extraordinary Chippendale Cherry Carved Chest on Chest,
attributed to Benjamin Burnham (c. 1729-73), Colchester, Connecticut, c. 1770.
THE WILLIAM DANA LIPPMAN COLLECTION SPLENDOR OF AMERICAN FURNITURE BONHAMS SKINNER
14 November 2023, 10:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts
US$300,000 - US$500,000, Bonhams
Sold for US$381,500
An important Dutch diamond-point engraved calligraphic green glass roemer by Willem Jacobszoon van Heemskerk, second half of the 17th century
November 8, 02:38 PM SAST
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Sold
215,900 GBP Sotheby's
Dealers focus: Dalva Brothers was founded in 1933 by Leon Dalva Sr. and his brothers. He and his wife Jean ran the gallery until they were joined by their sons David II and Leon Jr. The founder’s grandsons, David III, and most recently Adam are the third generation of Dalvas to work here. We have recently moved to a six story historic townhouse at 53 East 77th Street after over 60 years on East 57th Street.
Dalva Brothers has one of the finest and largest inventories of 18th century continental decorative arts in the world, including furniture, porcelain, clocks, and sculpture, displayed in period paneled rooms. We have sold pieces to interior decorators, collectors, dealers, and museums, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Louvre. Our collection ranges from masterpieces with royal provenance to beautiful but more accessible pieces that reflect the amazing craftsmanship and design skills of eighteenth century Europe.
Dealer focus: Bluett & Sons were founded by Alfred Ernest Bluett (d.1917) in c.1884. In 1907 Leonard Buckland Bluett (d.1963) joined the firm, and he was joined by his brother Edgar Ernest Bluett (d.1964) by 1910. Bluett's were world famous and leading specialist in the sale of Chinese works of art over the course of the 20th century, selling objects to many major collectors and museums.
In 1978 Dominic Jellinek joined the firm - Dominic also kindly supplied information from his researches into Bluett & Sons. See Dominic Jellinek, 'The Bluett Archive: a curious acquisition', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society Volume 77, 2012-13, pp1-12.
Edgar Bluett was one of the founding members of the BADA in 1918.