The Exceptional Sale 2011
Christie’s London In July
London – Comprising 52 highly important works, The Exceptional Sale 2011 will go under the hammer on the evening of Thursday 7 July. Spanning the 16th to 19th centuries, the furniture, silver, sculpture, clocks and objects of vertu featured exemplifies the very best European Decorative Art. The sale is expected to realise in excess of £18 million.
Robert Copley, Christie’s International Head of Furniture and Decorative Arts, and Deputy Chairman of Christie’s UK: “This evening sale builds on the success of the 2008 Exceptional Sale in which we saw the record for English Furniture broken four times. For The Exceptional Sale 2011 we have extended the parameters to include pieces from all of the Decorative Arts which will give the market the opportunity to bid for some of the rarest and finest works of art to come to auction, many of which are offered for the first time.”
Picture shows the recently discovery previously unrecorded 17th masterpiece by the Dutch master of Mannerist sculpture Adriaen de Vries (1550-1626): a bronze Mythological Figure Supporting the Globe, which is estimated to realise between £5 million and £8 million.
Source: Ukauctionnews