TOP SELLING LOTS
Hotlotz, Singapore, timed online sale closing January 15
Chinese Straits Settlement famille rose pink ground ‘phoenix and peony’ basin, 12in (30cm).
Estimate: Sin$4000-5000
Hammer: Sin$13,000 (£8070)
Plymouth Auction Rooms, January 18
Robert Lenkiewicz (1941- 2002), oil on canvas, 23 x 23in (58 x 58cm), titled Profile, Self Portrait, Lower Compton Studio, Non Project piece.
Estimate: £9000-10,000
Hammer: £9800
Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham, January 17
A 19th century three quarter life-size marble statue of a partly draped young woman, 5ft 3in (1.56m), right hand detached but present.
Estimate: £2000-3000
Hammer: £9000
HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE
Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, timed online sale closing January 17
Three Myanmar Mizoram pumtek bead necklaces with linear etched designs, coins and disc pendants, Romy Rey collection, London.
Estimate: £100-150
Hammer: £2700
Toovey’s, Washington, West Sussex, January 18
An 18th century gold mounted oval memorial pendant locket decorated with monochrome portraits of Charles I and Queen Anne.
Estimate: £200-300
Hammer: £3600
Lawrences, Crewkerne, January 17
George III fiddle pattern dessert spoon, Eley and Fearn, London 1797, engraved with the first (San Josef) crest of Horatio Nelson.
Estimate: £100-150
Hammer: £3000
Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for January 12-18, 2022.
‘Highest multiple over top estimate’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer prices as a multiple of the high estimate paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
‘Top selling lots’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
