AN AUSTRIAN BROWN PAINTED AND CARVED GILTWOOD GRANDE SONNERIE CARTEL CLOCK

Recommended features

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  • ‘Astonishing for its overarching quality’ — The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection

    On 6 and 7 of December Christie’s will offer almost 400 lots from a collection that includes works by Hals, Van Dyck, Leyster, Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder

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  • The ‘beautiful stillness’ of Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior with an Easel

    Come with us to to Copenhagen to learn more about the contemplative scenes painted in muted tones by this Danish artist, whose works rarely come to market

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  • Collecting guide: Sèvres porcelain

    The story of the French factory founded in the 18th century, from evolutions in style to the monarchs who gladly waited years for their commissions to be created

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  • ‘Radical and innovative’ — the gorgeous glass of Carlo Scarpa

    Carlo Scarpa took the traditions of Venetian glassblowing and created some of the 20th century’s most innovative designs

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  • ‘Anything but one culture, one thing, one place, one time’ — displaying the art of Islam

    Andrew Graham-Dixon on how the British Museum’s new Albukhary Foundation Gallery — opening 18 October — will offer a fresh perspective on its Islamic art

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  • Souvenirs from the Grand Tour

    Specialist William Russell Jr. takes a look at a group of superb architectural models collected by Grand Tourists