Sotheby's Ancient Antiquities Apulian Egyptian Roman Auction Catalog June 2008

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Title: Sotheby's Antiquities
Auctions held in: New York
Sale Date: 6/5/08
Sale No: NO8452
No. of Lots: 125
No. of Pages: 130
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated in Color
The Antiquities auction at Sotheby's June 5, 2008 is highlighted by a great Late Hellenistic or Early Roman Imperial bronze figure of a goddess, a lovely Hellenistic silver figure of Apollo, an Early Bronze Age I Cycladic marble figure of a man, some very good Roman marble busts, and several fine Egyptian works of art.
The sale was very successful with 115 of the 124 offered lots selling for ,933,001, significantly exceeding the sale's pre-sale high estimate, without premiums, of ,200,000. Richard Keresy and Florent Heintz of the Antiquities department, said after the sale that "we saw incredible demand across all sectors," adding that "more than 75 percent went over their high estimates," a quite incredible result.
Some Examples:
Another exquisite work from about the same period is Lot 38, a small chalcedony portrait head of a deified queen or empress. The catalogue dates it as Hellenistic/Early Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century B.C./1st Century A.D., and states that there is a closely related example in the Getty Museum. This lot, which is only 1 15/16 inches high, has an estimate of 0,000 to 0,000.
It sold for 2,500.
The cover illustration of the catalogue is Lot 28, the Late Hellenistic or Early Roman Imperial bronze figure of a goddess, circa 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D. The very graceful and elegant bronze is 20 3/4 inches high and probably depicts Tyche. The work was acquired by Christos G. Bastis in 1982 from the Merrin Gallery in New York and sold at Sotheby's in New York December 9, 1999 for 1,500 including the buyer's premium when it had an estimate of 0,000 to 0,000. The goddess is in excellent condition except for missing arms. It was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1982 to 1990. It has an estimate in this auction of 0,000 to 0,000. The catalogue notes that the piece was once owned by Claude Anet (1868-1931), the penname for Jean Schoepfer. Mr. Anet was the author of Mayerling.
It sold for 2,500 including the buyer's premium as do all results mentioned in this article.
Lot 32 is a very impressive marble head of Serapis Ammon, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd half of the 2nd Century, A.D. It is 13 1/4 inches high and is based ona Hellenistic protreaype of the 2nd Century B.C. There is a related head in the Cairo Museum. The lot was once in the collection of Georges and Ludmilla Anghelopoulo of Beirut, Paris, and Kitzbuhel who had acquired it prior to 1948 from Elie Boustros of Beirut. It has a modest estimate of ,000 to ,000.
It sold for 2,500.
Lot 13 is an 11 1/2-inch-high marble figure of a man, Cycladic, Early Bronze Age I, circa 3200-2700 B.C. It has an estimate of ,200,000 to ,800,000.
It sold for ,314,500
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