The new Ketterer Kunst headquarters next to Messe Munich are certainly impressive. The House for Art deploys 3500 m2 of surface area, which includes a spacious auction room, light-filled exhibition rooms and a library with some 1000 m of shelf space. A highlight is what is probably the world’s largest art show window measuring eight [...]
On Tuesday, July 28th, John Moran Auctioneers will host an exceptional two-part antique and fine furnishings auction at the Pasadena Center in Pasadena, CA. Moran’s monthly auctions typically offer superlative antiques and decorative arts from important and private collections. Among the highlights at the July 28th event are property from the Donald A. Cole Living [...]
On Tuesday & Wednesday, June 23 – 24, 2009, Greg Martin Auctions (GMA) offers over 1,300 antique arms, armor and collectibles with a focus in four distinct and distinctive areas:
1) Fine Collectible Firearms, Sporting Guns & Militaria, offering Winchesters, Colts and more; 2) Colt Factory Archives Collection, Part 3, featuring 350 lots in the [...]
Sotheby’s London have auctioned a magnificent pair of Russian Imperial Porcelain Vases for £2,617,250, well in excess of the pre-sale estimate for the pair of £1.2-1.8 million. No less than five bidders – three in the saleroom and two on the telephones – competed for the vases, in Sotheby’s biannual Russian Works of Art Sale, [...]
Kaminski Auctions’ May Auction, which took place May 30-31, 2009, attracted bidders both locally in Massachusetts and internationally via phone and live online bidding. Day one of this two-day sale featured general fine art, antiques and collectibles, while day two highlighted a diverse selection of maritime antiques and memorabilia. Consignments hailed from estates [...]
Skinner, one of the nation’s leading auction houses, will host an auction of fine jewelry at its Boston gallery on Tuesday, June 16th at 10:00 a.m. Highlights include Art Deco jewelry by Boucheron Paris, important Arts & Crafts jewels, principally from famous Boston studio jewelers, antique European jewelry Réjane, a famous French actress, and large [...]
Halls Auction Company (www.HallsAuctionCompany.com) announces the two-day auction of estate collectibles from the collection of Ruby Gano on June 13 and 14, according to Scott Hall, auctioneer.
“Ruby Gano began acquiring pottery and glassware as a department store employee in the 1930’s,” explained Hall. “The store sold a line of Fiesta Ware and one day the [...]
A cabinet by one of the greatest French furniture makers, Francois Linke will go under the hammer at Bonhams Fine Continental Furniture And Works Of Art Sale on 17th June and is expected to fetch £1M-£1.5M.
A version of this armoire by Linke was sold in New York in 2006 for $1,584,000.
Linke’s title for this [...]
William Bunch Auctions will present “The James Galley Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain” on June 8 and June 9, 2009. Featuring over 900 lots, including many examples of Canton, Nanking, Famille Rose and Rose Medallion porcelain as well as 18th and 19th century furniture, decorative arts and folk art, the two-day sale will also include [...]
