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AUCTION RESULTS THE MAGAZINE
Silverware
and precious objects
Here we have a sale with lots sold at 98%
in number and 93% in value, which seems
to be a glaring contradiction of the opinion,
often readily asserted that silverware does not sell!
For this New York sale on 19 October at Christie’s,
which totalled $4.5M, proved to be one of the best in
recent years. The results recorded appear all the more
remarkable because this sale didn’t just offer one unforgettable
lot, but rather a “strong” ensemble. The only
exception was amongst the precious objects up for
auction: a “zarf” made around 1840 in Geneva for the
Turkish market of remarkable quality, covered in a
mosaic of calibré-cut rubies and diamonds: an enthusiast
handed over $194,500 for it. For the rest, the bestselling
lots were pieces of silverware available to
everyone. First prize, at $290,500, was awarded to a set
of four two-light candelabra chased by G.Wickes in
London in 1733, previously at St. Osyth’s Priory and
then in the famous Mahdi Al-Tajir collection. A pair of
four-light candelabra by Rundell, Bridge & Rundell,
London, in 1806, sold for $206,500. Xavier Narbaïts
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