Egypt
Antiques and the Arts Online (Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo)
- Antiquities Reveal Surprising Strength At Lower End Of Market
International Herald Tribune (Souren Melikian) Certain sales stand out as landmarks by unexpectedly shedding new light on the forces that truly drive the art market. A daylong auction of antiquities at Bonhams this week was one of those enlightening events....
- 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...
- Artifacts Up For Auction To Pay Debt
Ohio.com (David Giffels) What was once a bright constellation in the universe of art and antiquities is disintegrating in an online auction, mouse-click by mouse-click, in a major step toward satisfying millions of dollars of an Akron collector's...
- Egyptian Islamic Ewer Mistakenly Sold As French Jug
United Press International A piece billed as a French claret jug at a Crewkerne, England, auction has turned out to be a medieval Egyptian ewer worth $10 million. The item, which was purchased by an unknown buyer for about $430,000, was described in the...
- Smuggling Ring Broken
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Egypt
Egyptian funerary art upstages Americana at sale
Antiques and the Arts Online (Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo)
What better setting for a summer auction replete with good American pieces than this quintessentially New England town, the setting for Thornton Wilder's Our Town ? Antiques dealers and collectors mixed with local characters straight out of the Pulitzer-prize winning play to fill the gallery at the old mill along the Contoocook River for The Cobbs' July 11 auction.
The highlight was not early American, however, but early Egyptian — a Fayum sarcophagus portrait of a woman provoked a competition among nine phone bidders and only ended when it went to one for $143,750. The Egyptian painting dates to the Roman First Century AD and depicts a woman with earrings and two necklaces. It came from a Peterborough collector whose husband purchased it in New York City in the 1960s. It was accompanied by a letter verifying the purchase because the original receipt had not been located at the time of the auction. The portrait went to a London dealer buying for a client.
- Antiquities Reveal Surprising Strength At Lower End Of Market
International Herald Tribune (Souren Melikian) Certain sales stand out as landmarks by unexpectedly shedding new light on the forces that truly drive the art market. A daylong auction of antiquities at Bonhams this week was one of those enlightening events....
- 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...
- Artifacts Up For Auction To Pay Debt
Ohio.com (David Giffels) What was once a bright constellation in the universe of art and antiquities is disintegrating in an online auction, mouse-click by mouse-click, in a major step toward satisfying millions of dollars of an Akron collector's...
- Egyptian Islamic Ewer Mistakenly Sold As French Jug
United Press International A piece billed as a French claret jug at a Crewkerne, England, auction has turned out to be a medieval Egyptian ewer worth $10 million. The item, which was purchased by an unknown buyer for about $430,000, was described in the...
- Smuggling Ring Broken
...