Sotheby’s Auction: “Collections” from Across Europe
Posted September 10th, 2012 | by The Update
A Renaissance Allegorical Tapestry, from the series depicting the Planets, Flemish, and depicting Sun (Leo), after woodcuts by the German artist Georg Pencz, mid-16th century.
Sotheby’s Auction House will hold its annual “Collections” event offering exquisite decorative artifacts from across Europe.
On 27th September 2012 Sotheby’s will hold its inaugural sale of ‘Collections’ offering clients a wonderful opportunity to admire and acquire a wealth of Fine and Decorative Art dating from the 16th to the 20th Century. Focusing on property sourced from private collections throughout Europe and often with an Aristocratic or distinguished provenance, the sale has been carefully curated in order to offer exciting and decorative privately owned items that are fresh to the market – and in the case of specially commissioned items for the very first time in their history.
Assembled from a diverse array of locations, from the grand state rooms of a Roman Palazzo to the refined Edwardian Great Hall of a Lutyens designed English Manor House, ‘Collections’ will offer a combination of decorative and important objects from the following disciplines: English and Continental Furniture, Clocks, Tapestries, Rugs, Ceramics, Chinese Export Porcelain , Silver, Objects of Vertu, Sculpture, Old Master Paintings and European Paintings.
This carefully curated sale offers a fresh perspective of historic works that should delight the decorator, connoisseur and collector alike.
Visit sothebys.com for further information on this and other auctions, as well as how to absentee bid or bid online.
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