Steven | September 14, 2008
Edward Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity” set a world record for Americana folk art as well as a record for the artist’s works when it sold this May in a Sotheby’s auction for $9.6 million. Now, the buyer of this and two other paintings in the same sale, Internet millionaire and CNet [...]
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Steven | September 3, 2008
Reuters reports on the upcoming Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong of the treasures of a Chinese Emperor:
A singular collection of imperial treasures once owned by China’s powerful Qianlong emperor including jade dragon seals, military scrolls and a sword will be offered by Sotheby’s this autumn in its Hong Kong sale.
Sotheby’s “Legacies [...]
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