TOP SELLING LOTS
Forum Auctions, London, July 13
Trolleys, a 2007 screenprint in colours by Banksy (b.1974) from an edition of 750, 22 x 2ft 6in (57 x 76cm).
Estimate: £30,000-50,000
Hammer: £28,000
Kinghams, Moreton-in-Marsh, July 10
Grotesque stoneware spoon warmer by Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, c.1885, 7in (17cm).
Estimate: £15,000-20,000
Hammer: £15,000
Andreas Thies, Kirchheim Unter Teck, July 10
Silver gilt-mounted hunting trousse (waidpraxe) complete with scabbard and cutlery with armorials for the Esterházy family, Saxony, c.1760.
Estimate: n/a
Hammer: €14,000 (£12,700)
HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE
Gorringe’s, Lewes, July 12
Sino-Tibetan bronze figure of a bodhisattva, 4½in (11cm).
Estimate: £200-300
Hammer: £10,000
Wallis & Wallis, Lewes, July 13
Caucasian kindjal featuring brass-mounted horn hilt and 13in (33cm) blade with gilt lion and bird decoration and maker’s cartouche.
Estimate: £50-80
Hammer: £9500
Kinghams, Moreton-in-Marsh, July 9
Seventeenth century Flemish School oil on panel depicting The Mass of Saint Gregory after Israhel van Mechelem, 10 x 7in (25 x 18cm), in an ebonised tabernacle frame.
Estimate: £400-600
Hammer: £9500
Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for July 8-14, 2021.‘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
