This month’s Auction Block includes a porcelain vase, a restored Porsche 911 and a diamond ring worth half a million dollars.
Weschler’s
Gerhard Heilmann for Royal Copenhagen Glazed Porcelain Vase
Estimate: $200–$400
Sold for: $2,200
Depicting a school of fish, this Royal Copenhagen porcelain vase was made around 1896 by Danish artist and paleontologist Gerhard Heilmann (1859-1946). The piece, 15½ inches high, has a few pronounced stretches of deterioration and some minor abrasions from handling over the years.
Bonhams
1990 Porsche 911 Classic Turbo
Sold for: $1.68 million
Part of Bonhams’ recent Miami auction, this 1990 Porsche 911 is the first example from Singer’s Classic Turbo restoration services to be offered for public sale. It includes a 3.8-liter, twin-turbocharged, six-cylinder “Mezger” engine capable of over 500 brake horsepower. Underpinning the vehicle is a bespoke suspension system.
The Potomack Company
‘Grego Hates Bombs’ by Burhan Cahit Dogancay
Estimate: $30,000–$60,000
Sold for: $60,000
Deaccessioned by Mary Baldwin University, this acrylic, collage and mixed media work is by Turkish American artist Burhan Cahit Doğançay (1929-2013). Born in Istanbul, Doğançay served in Turkey’s Ministry of Commerce and developed his abstract artistic style while living as a diplomat in New York in the early 1960s.
Christie’s
Brown-Pink Modified Diamond Ring
Estimate: $300,000–$500,000
Sold for: $567,000
This 18-karat rose gold ring, size 5½, was part of a Christie’s Jewels Online auction. It features a light brown-pink, pear-modified, brilliant-cut diamond measuring nearly 19 carats (18.72 to be exact), with many small round diamonds along the band. The ring’s gross weight is 10.2 grams.
Doyle
The Latin Grammar of Toulouse-Lautrec
Estimate: $15,000–$25,000
Sold for: $70,350
Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) made hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings in the margins of this Latin-French dictionary while he studied for his baccalaureate. Then a bored schoolboy of 16, the famed painter and illustrator of the Parisian demimonde sat for the exam in 1880.
