Egypt
Daily Mail
- Smuggled Artefacts Returning To Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The two ancient Egyptian objects were saved for the nation when the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) succeeded in halting their sale in London and Amsterdam respectively as part of its campaign to stamp out the trade...
- Results Of Egyptian Revival Sale At Bonhams
Bonhams Egyptian Revival Catalogue Bonhams Sale Results If you were interested in the Revival sale, Bonhams have now put the results online at the second of the above addresses (it takes a few seconds for the full results to load). The revival catalogue...
- Sotheby's December 2007 Antiquities Auction Results
Sotheby's The Auction Results page can be reached at the above URL. Navigate in the list to the auction "Antiquities", December 5th 2007. You will need to be registered to access the Results page (free of charge). You will then be able to see each...
- More On The Outcome Of The Christie's Auction
http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6This brief article on the Daily Star website provides a little more information on the limestone statue purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, but also this coverage of the purchase of the statue of Nefertari: "Separately, Christie's...
- Egyptian Embassy Retrieves Stolen Antiquities
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm "The Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday received seven pieces of antiquities that date back to the pre-dynasty era from Bonham after intensive contacts with the British authorities and the auction hall...
Egypt
Bizarre results of auction of Carter's papers
Daily Mail
Last month I posted about the sale of Howard Carter's papers at Bonham's (where full details of the lot are detailed) and only yesterday I was on the Bonham's website puzzling over why the lot simply wasn't showing on the list of items sold at that auction. This story on the Daily Mail website explains all:
Geordie is a great-grandson of the 5th Earl who died from blood poisoning after a mosquito bite following his funding of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922.
Geordie, 52, was at Bonhams auction house in New Bond Street for the sale of rare letters and pictures from his forbear.
The £2,000 estimate was well within Geordie's budget, but he and other bidders were astonished to see the price soar to £12,600 before being sold to a casually-dressed Frenchman.
Afterwards, however, the purchaser said he had made a mistake. He bid by accident, thinking he had secured the previous lot, a photograph of a Constantine gate, with an estimate of £500. Says Eton and Oxford-educated Geordie, who is opening an exhibition next month at Highclere dedicated to Tutankhamun: 'I couldn't understand what was going on.
'I was prepared to go as high as £4,000, but I never got the chance as it soon went past my limit. Then it turns out the chap who bid for it hadn't wanted it after all' . . . .
Bonham's has agreed to place the items in next month's sale where Carnarvon will bid again.
See the above page for the full story. I'll check the sale results when the auction results are published.
- Smuggled Artefacts Returning To Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) The two ancient Egyptian objects were saved for the nation when the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) succeeded in halting their sale in London and Amsterdam respectively as part of its campaign to stamp out the trade...
- Results Of Egyptian Revival Sale At Bonhams
Bonhams Egyptian Revival Catalogue Bonhams Sale Results If you were interested in the Revival sale, Bonhams have now put the results online at the second of the above addresses (it takes a few seconds for the full results to load). The revival catalogue...
- Sotheby's December 2007 Antiquities Auction Results
Sotheby's The Auction Results page can be reached at the above URL. Navigate in the list to the auction "Antiquities", December 5th 2007. You will need to be registered to access the Results page (free of charge). You will then be able to see each...
- More On The Outcome Of The Christie's Auction
http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6This brief article on the Daily Star website provides a little more information on the limestone statue purchased by the Kimbell Art Museum, but also this coverage of the purchase of the statue of Nefertari: "Separately, Christie's...
- Egyptian Embassy Retrieves Stolen Antiquities
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm "The Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday received seven pieces of antiquities that date back to the pre-dynasty era from Bonham after intensive contacts with the British authorities and the auction hall...