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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721)
La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar oil on panel
Price Realized: £12,361,250
July 2008, London, King Street -
Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Portrait of Anne Sophia, Countess of Carnarvon (d. 1695), full-length, in a green dress with white silk bows and pearls, and gold-embroidered curtain beyond oil on canvas
Price Realized: £1,609,250
July 2010, London, King Street -
IMPERIAL TREASURES FROM THE FONTHILL COLLECTION
A highly important and exceedingly rare pair of imperial cloisonné enamel double crane censers Yongzheng period (1723-1735)
Price realized: HK$ 129,460,000 (US$ 16,661,502)
December 2010, Hong Kong
World record price for cloisonne enamel -
Frida Kahlo (Mexican 1907-1954)
Survivor
Price Realized: $1,178,500
May 2010, New York -
A VINCENNES BLEU CELESTE EWER AND BASIN (BROC ROUSSEL ET SA JATTE A BORD DE RELIEF) 1754-55, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B, PAINTER'S MARK FOR ARMAND LE JEUNE, INCISED 3 TO JUG AND SCRIPT L. TO BASIN
Price Realized:£217,250
December 2011, London, King Street
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