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Top walnut can still crack it
London Selection - 29 March 2010
MANY people are content to put together one major collection in their lifetime. To assemble one, disperse it at a major saleroom, set about doing the same thing all over again and then hold a second auction within the space of just over a decade takes some doing.
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The walnut writing chest that made £80,000 at Christie’s.
Former Sotheby’s specialist to oversee new photo department at Bonhams
London Selection - 21 September 2009
BONHAMS have set up a new department devoted to sales of photography joining Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bloomsbury Auctions in mounting specialist stand-alone sales in London in this field.
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Not big money but it’s still a model market
London Selection - 22 October 2005
THE 20th century fashion and accessories sales at Christie’s South Kensington (20/12% buyer’s premium) are not the firm’s biggest money-spinners.
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The 1960s and 1970s Yves Saint Laurent creations from Swedish supermodel Ulla Carenby’s wardrobe produced many top lots at Christie’s South Kensington on September 29.
An object lesson in how to get the balance right
London Selection - 12 July 2005
Never was an event more aptly named than Brian and Anna Haughton’s International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, the veteran ceramics fest which celebrated its 24th staging from June 16-19.
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A rare and small, 3in (8cm) Chantilly teapot of c.1735  painted with the Two Quail pattern that was a first day sale on Helen Girton’s stand at the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar.
Toby jugs selling with an air of respectability
London Selection - 06 June 2005
ENGLISH POTTERY SALES

THE products of the Staffordshire potteries from blue-printed tablewares to cottage chimney ornaments and Toby jugs to ironstone services, were the subject of a 356-lot sale at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge (20/12% buyer’s premium) back on May 11.
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Wood Admiral Howe toby – £7800 at Bonhams’ Knightsbridge.
Royal subject rides high
London Selection - 06 June 2005
THE undoubted high point of Christie’s King Street’s (20/12% buyer’s premium) single-owner sale on April 22 was the Italian equestrian bronze group of Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy pictured right.
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Italian equestrian bronze group of Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy
Cup coverage provides spur to sports sales
London Selection - 31 May 2005
A WEEK is a long time in politics, but nowadays the same can be said of sport. As soon as we read about a premiership player confirming his commitment to one club, the next day we see him signing for Chelsea.
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The FA cup presented to the winners of the competition between 1896 and 1910. It was bought by Birmingham City chairman David Gold for £420,000 at Christie’s South Kensington on May 19, setting a new record for a piece of sporting memorabilia.
Riding the roller coaster
London Selection - 27 May 2005
Decorative Arts may be a volatile market but it follows a pattern

DECORATIVE ARTS by Anne Crane
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Wall lights from the Purkersdorf Sanitorium sold for £27,000 at Sotheby’s on May 6.
Sales rely on key names and keen pricing
London Selection - 27 May 2005
Christie’s South Kensington (20/12% buyer’s premium) : Art Nouveau and Art Deco

This two-day, all-Continental offering really was a sale of two halves.
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Bruno Zack’s, The Riding Crop, sold for £35,000 at CSK on April 26.
Resisting the satyr’s lustful pull
London Selection - 06 May 2005
THE piece with star billing at Bonhams’ April 21 Antiquities auction was the dramatic white marble group, shown here, even meriting its own separate hardback catalogue.

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Depicting a nymph struggling to resist the predatory advances of a satyr
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