Highlights: a recent selection of stand-out lots sold at auction

This recently discovered example of the iconic Bauhaus tea-infuser, designed by Marianne Brandt in 1924, on offer at Lempertz on May 15 for €200,000, was knocked down to the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum for Art and Industry) for €260,000 (£222,220).

The dramatic painting Fight between Arabian Horsemen and a Lion by the 19th century Javanese princ…

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