It is clear that in speaking of the preceding article,the jewel of the sale for me is the Bugatti Atalante, although it could also fall for this Bugatti Aravis 1930
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Artcurial Auction in Retromobile(2)
A new record in Geneva Auction for a Patek Philippe
Found in idexonline.com
” Watch Sales in 2010 Break Records at Christie’s
(December 21, ’10, 5:41 IDEX Online Staff Reporter)
The Patek Philippe watch that sold for $5.7 million at Christie’s
(IDEX Online News) – Christie’s International ended a record-breaking year for fine and rare watches that realized $91.2 million in total sales, the highest annual total ever achieved for watches at the auction house. The top selling watch this year was a Patek Philippe Reference 1527 manufactured in 1943 that sold for a record $5.7 million at Christie’s Geneva.
Chinese Art in the celestial spheres at Drouot
A rare vase from 51 cms of the Yongzheng period (1723-1735), the imperial seal authentic, has been awarded in the famous Parisian auction house to 5.547 million euros.
It was probably placed in the Imperial Rooms, its spherical shape (tianqiuping) is directly connected with the Son of Heaven, and polychrome enamel flowers gently running along the vase: Yulan magnolia, peony and wild apple Haitang fuguihua form homophony in the hope that “Blessed be your noble household wealth and honor. “
In China, everything is symbolic, everything leads back to a philosophy, a representation of things in life, and it could not be exceptional for an emperor.
The peony flower is considered the queen of flowers and evokes the front ranks of officers and the “flower of riches and honor“ term from Zhou Dunya, in his essay “My passion for the Lotus, “ Neo-Confucian poet Song of this time.
Focus on the pink diamond from sale at auction at Sotheby’s Geneva, in November 2010
The flagship of the sale in Sotheby’s Fine Jewelry: diamond “Fancy Intense Pink“
We have already discussed the estimates and price of its rarity (it is estimated VVS2 for a diamond of color)
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