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News and previews of art and antiques sold at auctions throughout the UK and overseas, from multi-million-pound blockbusters to affordable collectables.
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Previews: issue 2563
10 October 2022A selection of 16 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.
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English scent bottle emerges in Chicago from a Kansas City collector
10 October 2022A single-owner collection of 42 gold boxes and objects of vertu from the estate of a Kansas City collector is to be offered by Hindman on October 18.
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A mystery Scottish family portrait is among five lots to watch
10 October 2022With estimates from £1000-40,000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
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Bid Barometer: issue 2563
10 October 2022ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.
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Autumn delights in busy season for Asian art
10 October 2022Asian Art in London celebrates its twenty-fifth edition with the annual festival, first held in autumn 1998, running from late October to early November.
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The furniture price adjustments that show a positive trend
10 October 2022While traditional antique furniture prices are still relatively cheap, contemporary and mid-20th century material continues to be an expanding market.
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Dinosaur on the road to the rostrum
10 October 2022Giquello et Associés is selling this fossilised skeleton of Zephyr from the Iduanodon family of dinosaurs which is more than 150 million years old.
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Curtain covered shrine of the prophet
10 October 2022This 19th century Ottoman silver thread and black silk curtain is embroidered with the tugra of Sultan Mahmud II (1808-39).
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Eastern promise: Asian Art in London awards 2022
10 October 2022The awards shortlist for Asian Art in London’s Indian & Islamic section has been announced. The Antiques Trade Gazette Award for An Outstanding Indian & Islamic Work of Art from an Auction House and the Apollo Award for An Outstanding Indian & Islamic Work of Art from a Dealer each have three finalists. Winners will be announced on October 20
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Classic Lucie Rie footed bowl makes £33,000
10 October 2022A summer Design and Modern sale at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) included a small collection of ceramics by Dame Lucie Rie (1902- 95).
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Benois steps up in the saleroom
10 October 2022A couple of ballet-related lots danced away for high prices over the summer.
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Focus on Chinese five-figure buys from the regions
10 October 2022Although catalogued as Kangxi period, an ovoid blue and white vase offered by Stacey’s (20% buyer’s premium) on September 20 is a Transitional piece.
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First of two single-owner selections coming up at Artcurial
10 October 2022Titled 'De Watteau à Vuillard Une Collection Parisienne', paintings, works on paper, furniture and objects from a Parisian collection were the object of the first of two single-owner classic contents sales marking the start of the new auction season for the Old Master, furniture and objects departments at Artcurial (26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium).
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Fabulous flintlock firearm at Christie’s
10 October 2022Christie’s sale titled Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds on October 27 includes a magnificent flintlock jezail, c.1823-33.
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König goes big on the small-scale detail
10 October 2022An early 17th century gouache by the German artist Johann König (1586-1642) was a highlight of the Ivoire Troyes (24% buyer’s premium) auction.
British and Irish book auctions: October 11-27, 2022
10 October 2022Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.
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Pilgrimage painting makes its way to Sotheby's auction
10 October 2022Sotheby’s Arts of the Islamic World & India auction on October 26 includes 15 Indian paintings from the collection of Betsy Salinger.
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Eugène Girardet makes his move
10 October 2022Sotheby’s conducts The Orientalist Sale on October 25.
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Le Gray was also a painter
10 October 2022Gustave le Gray is well known today as a pioneering French photographer but not as a painter.
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Meiji era wisteria wonder
10 October 2022This Japanese Meiji-era cloisonné vase decorated with wisteria by Namikawa Yasuyuki will feature in a US auction.
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