TOP SELLING LOTS
1818 Auctioneers, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, timed online sale ended September 24
Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), oil on board, Blue Hyacinths In A Winter Landscape, c.1960, 2ft 1in x 2ft 6in (63 x 74cm).
Estimate: £7000-10,000
Hammer: £48,000
Eppli Auktionshalle, Leinfelden- Echterdingen, September 23
Russian officer’s dress sabre c.1889 marked PA Fokin, St Petersburg with provenance to Georg Karl Wilhelm Otto von Transehe Roseneck, lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army.
Estimate: €300-500
Hammer: €32,000 (£27,840)
Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, September 26
Marius Bauer (Dutch, 1867-1932), A servant on the steps of a Balinese temple, watercolour and body colour, 2ft 5in x 21in (74 x 52cm).
Estimate: ££2000-3000
Hammer: £17,000
HIGHEST PRICE OVER ESTIMATE
Wallis & Wallis, Lewes, September 26
Oak four-panel folding table screen, panels containing eight Simkin illustrations of grenadier guardsmen in uniforms from c.1740-1880, each panel 6½ x 13½in (16 x 34cm).
Estimate: £80-120
Hammer: £3500
Chilcotts, Honiton, Devon, September 23
Qing bronze tripod censer with apocryphal impressed Xuande mark to base, 6in (14cm).
Estimate: £60-80
Hammer: £3400
Wimbledon Auctions, London, September 25
Persian gold and enamel brooch decorated with a crown and flowers, housed inside a box labelled within Abdallah Hasso Baghdad.
Estimate: £60-80
Hammer: £3000
Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for September 21-27, 2023.
‘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
