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Some in Sydney’s antiques precinct around Woollahra shook their heads when Bonhams Australia announced a sale of stock from Andre and Cecile Fink, long-established dealers in Continental furniture. Not again, they said. A poisoned chalice, others muttered.
Sotheby’s Australia achieved strong results in its Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts auction held in Melbourne on October 25 and 26, the standout sections of the sale being Australian furniture and decorative arts, and the Charles Lloyd Jones Collection.
The two Tim Goodman auction franchises, Leonard Joel and Sotheby’s both had disappointing results from their jewellery auctions in Melbourne during the week.
As foreshadowed in our article Sotheby’s set to smash record for Australian furnitureby Australiana expert John Wade on October 3 2010, Sotheby’s Australia last night set a record price (including buyer’s premium), for an item of furniture at an Australian auction, when the sideboard (lot 311) contructed by Scottish born Peter McLean was sold
An English 19th century sterling silver wine bottle coaster apparently owned by New South Wales governor Lachlan Macquarie has surfaced in Sydney and is to be offered at auction.
Police today announced that jewellery worth over $500,000 was stolen from an antique dealer at Hurlstone Park, an inner west Sydney suburb, on Saturday 16 October 2010.
Leonard Joel is expecting $200,000-$300,000 for their next auction of 332 items of jewellery and watches. It has a broad range from antique, art deco, some retro and 70’s silver to new jewellery. It includes a selection of Catherine Freeman’s jewellery. Catherine is selling the collection to raise money and awareness of the Catherine Freeman Foundation.
The Art Gallery of NSW could widen its appeal to many new collectors as a result of a new bequest, writes our special correspondent.
Antique dealers and collectors visiting the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) from today - and into the far future - will encounter a display of English and Continental porcelain and Italian majolica they never in their wildest dreams might have expected to be permanently exhibited there.
The Art Gallery of NSW will this week announce the acquisition of a major collection of Old Master paintings and Italian porcelain and majolica the existence of which appears to have been totally unknown to the present generation of Australian auctioneers, dealers and fellow collectors.
A new name on the Sydney auction scene, Theodore Bruce, kicks off its operations in the suburb of Beaconsfield on Sunday, October 24, with a 400-lot sale of furniture, ceramics, glass, art and gewgaws.
A brace of fancy French commodes is among the offerings at the liquidation sale of veteran Sydney purveyors of Continental furniture, Andre and Cecile Fink. The sale is being handled by Bonhams Australia, which sold the landmark Owston collection in June and will offer another Owston assortment on November 14.
Sotheby’s Australia, now part of the Tim Goodman stable, has seemingly had no difficulty keeping up the standards for its decorative arts and furniture sales, coming up with a tempting offering for its Melbourne sale on October 25 and 26
Revelations about antique furniture sold by by former London dealer John Hobbs are still reverberating around the trade with The Sunday Times on October 3, disclosing that many high profile celebrities were the the owners of antiques that had been embellished by his restorer.
Global auction house Sotheby's notched up its best ever sales tally for an Asian auction series in Hong Kong on Friday, hammering off HK$3.08 billion ($400 million) worth of Asian art, jewelry, wine and watches. The strong results for the biannual auctions, widely seen as a barometer for the Chinese and Asian art markets, underscored surging demand from affluent mainland Chinese buyers for top tier Chinese imperial treasures and ceramics, though results were mixed and relatively flat for objects of lesser quality
A Canadian family's stunning attic discovery -- a gem-studded, solid gold tiger's head that once adorned a powerful sultan's throne in India -- was sold at a high-profile auction in Britain on Thursday for more than $700,000
There was a peaceful Asian invasion of the quiet NSW southern highlands village of Burradoo, near Bowral, on the recent long weekend. When the rain-sodden weekend was over, the interlopers walked away with more than $300,000 of oriental art, notably antique ivory, furniture, porcelain and jade.
In Melbourne on 26 October, Sotheby’s Australia will offer a massive, carved sideboard in that is likely to smash the record price for a piece of Australian furniture.
A brass-bound mahogany bucket attracted a bucket-load of money at a country house contents sale held in Richmond, west of Sydney, by Lawsons on September 28.
Having owned two of Australia's signature homes - Boomerang, in Elizabeth Bay, and Cedar Springs, Paul Hogan's former estate outside Byron Bay - socialites Duncan and Sally Mount are downsizing. ''Probably to a house in Bellevue Hill or something,'' guesses Mr Mount. And that means they're flogging their furniture: a world-class collection of late 20th century, highly ornate designer furniture that they began buying in 1994.
Mr James Badgery's commitment to the auction industry into which he was born, has taken yet another turn. His laconic auctioneering style is guaranteed a further captive run backed by another auctioneer born with a silver auction spoon in his mouth, Mr James Bruce of Adelaide.