Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVORY HAMMER 2: THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S. 256 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $12.50. For art lovers who like to look at the price tags too, this book is just the ticket. The annual report of Sotheby's, Britain's venerable auction house, which has been a British institution for years, has graduated into a profusely illustrated volume worthy of deposit on any drawing-room table. Ivory Hammer 2 is the second annual report to be published in the U.S. It reprises the 1963-64 season, during which Sotheby's knocked down an unprecedented $37 million...
With old masters bringing record prices at auction, what would happen if one of the great museums of Europe suddenly put its masterworks up for bids? Italian Art Historian Carlo Ragghianti and a committee of experts have just finished assaying the worth of masterpieces in Florence's Uffizi Gallery. At current prices, their top guesstimates...
...lovers flocked to see the study that Rembrandt lovingly painted shortly after the death of the child's mother, and the lines were lengthened by those who were as curious about the painting's price tag as about its ageless beauty. Two months ago, at a controversial auction at Christie's auction house in London (TIME, March 26), Titus was hammered down for $2,234,400, a record price for Britain and only $65,000 less than the historic price that New York's Metropolitan Museum paid four years ago for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer...
...relations consultant, stuffed the letter with a bunch of campaign souvenirs into a closet. Coming across it a few months ago and realizing the value of a letter between a once and a present First Lady, she turned it over to Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton to sell at auction. A year ago, Hamilton had sold a particularly poignant letter from Jackie to an unknown Englishman for a record $3,000; he thought this one would bring at least...
...perfume vials, bell pulls, architectural ornaments, even a mortar and pestle. Most famous of all Josiah's jasper ware was his limited edition of the Portland vase, after a Greek vase supposedly made in Alexandria in 50 A.D. Last year a rare slate-blue Portland vase sold at auction for $8,600. Josiah would get $1.50 for a fine jasper cup and saucer; today it would sell for one hundred times as much...