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Attributed works:
Allen Jones, You Dare, 1967, oil on canvas and aluminium steps with plastic tiles [Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert]
Attributed works:
François Boucher
(Paris, France 1703–1770)
The Story of Cupid and Psyche: An Old Philosopher Leads the Wandering Psyche to His Rustic Home
(In preparation for one of the Beauvais Tapestries, 1734–1737)
Oil on canvas in grisaille softened with blue grey, celadon, to grey.
49 x 52.3 cm. (193⁄16 x 209⁄16 in.) [Découvert Fine Art]
Attributed works:
GEORGE GOWER
(c.1538–1596)
William Arundell (c.1561–1592), 1580
Oil on panel
23 x 20 in (60.6 x 50.9 cm) [Philip Mould]
Attributed works:
JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE (1725-1805)
The First Harvest of the Wheat
Black chalk, brush and black and grey ink and grey wash on laid paper.
476 x 593 mm. (18 x 23 ⁄8 in.) [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art]
Attributed works:
Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD
(Grasse 1732 – Paris 1806)
A Philosopher reading
Unlined, oval
45.8 x 57 cm - 18 x 22 / in.
In its original frame stamped Chartier
Estimate : 1.500.000 / 2.000.000 € [Enchères Champagne]
Attributed works:
Lorenzo Monaco
(1370-1425)
Saint Anthony the Abbot and Saint John - Crucifixion with a Donor [Moretti]
Attributed works:
Théodore Géricault
Discovery of an unknown painting
Sapeur du premier régiment de hussards, 1814
Oil on canvas, 81 x 64 cm [Galerie Johann Naldi with Arsinopia]
Attributed works:
Thomas Patch (Exeter 1725–1782 Florence), The River Arno looking towards the Ponte Santa Trinità, Florence
oil on canvas, 95.2 x 129.5 cm, €100,000 – 150,000 [Dorotheum]
Non-western art unattributed:
Lot 418 A rare inscribed underglaze
blue and copper-red decorated brushpot,
China, Qing dynasty, probably Kangxi
period. [Hermann Historica]
Western art unattributed:
Featuring in Five Centuries:
FRENCH GOTHIC IVORY COMPOSITE CASKET
CIRCA 1330
all panels intricately carved in bas-relief to include
scenes from the Medieval tales Queste del Saint Grail
and Tristan & Isolde, with brass brackets and handle
25cm wide, 11cm high, 13cm deep
Provenance: Acquired by Thomas Baird of Auchmedden,
circa 1615, thence by family descent
30,000-50,000 + fees [Lyon and Turnbull]
Western art unattributed:
Lot 192 A gilt incense boat with champlevé
decoration, Limoges, 13th century [Hermann Historica]
Western art unattributed:
Lot 525
A magnificent
marble portrait
head of Caracalla,
205 - 209 A.D. [Hermann Historica]
Western art unattributed:
Lot 564 A Scandinavian Viking boar’s
head from a ship, 7th - 9th century [Hermann Historica]
Western art unattributed:
Two lance tips with the
finest blue-green ‘emerald’ patina
Late Bronze age, 13th-11th Century BC
Provenance:
Private collection, South Germany
Private collection, Switzerland [Peter Finer]