Egypt
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- More Re Christies Mummy Sale
http://tinyurl.com/yznh2r (newsday.com)"On Thursday, as part of a large auction of antiquities, Christie's in New York plans to put up for bid a mummy and its sarcophagus that date back to around 990-940 BC. The sarcophagus, made of fig wood, comes...
- More On Auction Purchases
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0118/p18s02-hfgn.htmlI don't know why these have been featured so late in the day, but this article looks at December's auction purchases of Old Kingdom items. I include it in case anyone missed the items the first...
- Kimbell Purchases Old Kingdom Statue At Christies Auction
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/13370741.htmThis is a really nice follow-up to yesterday's piece about the Christies auctions. The Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas) has purchased an Old Kingdom (Fifth Dynasty) limestone tomb statue,...
- Auctions At Christies, New York
http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20051208/102312.shtmlSome ancient Egyptian items are to go under the hammer today from the Harer Family Trust Collection: "An Egyptian black granite standard bearing the statue of Queen Nefertari is the centerpiece...
Egypt
More on the outcome of the Christie's auction
http://tinyurl.com/bcgx6
This 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 sold an Egyptian black granite standard-bearing statue of Queen Nefertari, dating back to the Reign of Ramesses II, Dynasty XIX, 1290-1224 BC, for a record $2.3 million, over an undisclosed estimate. The Nefertari piece was previously bought at Christie's in 1979 for just $220,000, which was a world record at the time. This sale of ancient Egyptian artifacts was part of a larger, two-day antiquities sale".
See the above web page on the Daily Star website for the full article.
http://news-antique.com/?id=700&keys=antiquity-egyptian-christies
http://news-antique.com/?id=700&keys=antiquity-egyptian-christies
This article focuses more on the amount that items were sold for, and how this compares with previous record sale prices: "The previous world auction record for an Egyptian antiquity was £883,750 ($1,418,418) for an Egyptian sarcophagus at Christie’s in South Kensington in 2003."
- Antiquities: Downturn In Antiquity Sales
PR Newswire Swansea archaeologist David Gill has been analyzing the sale of antiquities in New York since 1999. Some $300 million worth of antiquities have been sold at Sotheby's and Christie's since 1998. There are normally two sales a year for...
- More Re Christies Mummy Sale
http://tinyurl.com/yznh2r (newsday.com)"On Thursday, as part of a large auction of antiquities, Christie's in New York plans to put up for bid a mummy and its sarcophagus that date back to around 990-940 BC. The sarcophagus, made of fig wood, comes...
- More On Auction Purchases
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0118/p18s02-hfgn.htmlI don't know why these have been featured so late in the day, but this article looks at December's auction purchases of Old Kingdom items. I include it in case anyone missed the items the first...
- Kimbell Purchases Old Kingdom Statue At Christies Auction
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/entertainment/13370741.htmThis is a really nice follow-up to yesterday's piece about the Christies auctions. The Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas) has purchased an Old Kingdom (Fifth Dynasty) limestone tomb statue,...
- Auctions At Christies, New York
http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20051208/102312.shtmlSome ancient Egyptian items are to go under the hammer today from the Harer Family Trust Collection: "An Egyptian black granite standard bearing the statue of Queen Nefertari is the centerpiece...