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Unknown Photographer (19th century) Group Portrait of Boys, circa 1850s Daguerreotype Half Plate (4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inche...

Unknown Photographer (19th century) Group Portrait of Boys, circa 1850s Daguerreotype Half Plate (4-1/4 x 5-1/2 inche...

Auction amount: $2,000.00

Sold: Nov 20, 2023

Unknown (French)

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AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC TABLETOP SET WITHIN GILT WOOD BASE
Maker unknown, Rome, Italy, circa 1825-1875
30 x 37-...
Auction 5053 | Lot: 66041 | Nov 9, 2010

Sold For: $179,250.00

Make Offer to Owner
$268,875 or more
An Egyptian Sarcophagus

Egyptian
21st Dynasty, Circa 1000 B.C.
Painted carved wood
71 inches high
...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33557 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $119,500.00
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Eva Mudocci (After Munch), 1984
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board, one of an unknown number of color variants
40 x 32 inches (101.6 x 81.3 cm)
Andy Warhol Foundation numbering in pencil verso: UP 34.61

Auction 5197 | Lot: 70103 | Nov 8, 2014

Sold For: $81,250.00
A Monumental French Gilt Bronze and Enamel Clock

Unknown maker, Paris, France
Circa 1864
Gilt bronze and enamel
Unmark...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33333 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $62,140.00
Banksy (b. 1974)
Applause, 2006
Screenprint in colors Rives BFK paper
31-5/8 x 47 inches (80.3 x 119.4 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 331/500 (there is also an unsigned edition of 100 and an unknown number of artist's proofs)
Numbered in pencil lower left, with publisher's stamp
Published by Pictures on Walls, London

Auction 8022 | Lot: 65006 | Oct 20, 2020

Sold For: $57,500.00
George Rodrigue (American, 1944-2013)
The Land of Unknown (Don't Turn Your Back on Your Troubles 'Cause They Just Multiply), 1990
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches (91.4 x 61.0 cm)
Signed, dated, titled, and dedicated on the reverse: Rodrigue "The Land of Unknown" / 1990 / To Edwina / Barnes For the animals / we both Love / George Rodrigue / 1990

Auction 8045 | Lot: 77125 | May 13, 2021

Sold For: $52,500.00

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$78,750 or more
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH OF MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO OF BARODA IN INDIAN SILVER PRESENTATION FRAME
Maker unknown, 1913
25 x 17-1/2 inches (63.5 x 44.5 cm)

Auction 5129 | Lot: 87011 | Feb 23, 2013

Sold For: $46,875.00

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$70,312 or more
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL SEVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN AND GILT BRONZE URNS
Maker unknown, France, circa 1900
Unmarked
39-1/2 inches high (100.3 cm)

(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 5100 | Lot: 66027 | Jun 14, 2012

Sold For: $46,875.00
A Spanish Tortoiseshell, Ivory, Rosewood and Brass Cabinet on Stand

Unknown maker, Spanish
Circa 1850-1880<...
Auction 654 | Lot: 33414 | Nov 1, 2007

Sold For: $41,825.00
A FRENCH GILT WOOD AND MARBLE PIER TABLE WITH GILT BRONZE MOUNTS
Unknown maker, probably Paris, France, circa 1840
Unmarked
With back splash: 64-3/4 x 97 x 24 inches (164.5 x 246.4 x 61.0 cm)
Table height: 37 inches

Provenance:
Ray and Clare Stern Estate

(Total: 6 Items)
Auction 5065 | Lot: 66040 | Jun 1, 2011

Sold For: $38,837.50
TWO MASSIVE PORTE COCHERE (CARRIAGE PORCH) LANTERNS

Unknown maker, France
Circa 1820
Brass, sheet metal,...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33009 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $38,240.00
A Pair of Italian Rococo Style Giltwood Consoles

Unknown maker, Italy
Nineteenth Century
Gilded wood and marble
Unmark...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33297 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $36,099.76
A NORTH GERMAN EMPIRE MAHOGANY TEMPLE-FORM TRIPLE ROLL-TOP DESK
Maker unknown, Germany, circa 1815
82 x 58 x 25-3/8 inches (208.3 x 147.3 x 64.5 cm)

Auction 5155 | Lot: 62325 | Feb 21, 2014

Sold For: $35,000.00
YOSHITOMO NARA (Japanese, b. 1959)
Unknown (Q), 1996
Ink and colored pencil on paper
8 x 5-3/4 inches (20.3 x 14.6 cm)
Dated in pencil lower right: '96
Inscribed lower center: 九死一生 (Nine deaths and still alive)

Auction 5215 | Lot: 70318 | May 30, 2015

Sold For: $32,500.00
A Pair of Monumental Sèvres-style Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Vases with Lids

Unknown maker, painting signed by J. Pascault...
Auction 650 | Lot: 33343 | Apr 26, 2007

Sold For: $32,265.00
A THREE PIECE FRENCH GILT BRONZE, CLOISONNÉ AND CHAMPLEVÉ ENAMEL CLOCK GARNITURE
Maker unknown, France, circa 1875
Marks to mechanism: 836
19-1/8 inched high x 10-1/2 inches diameter (48.6 x 26.7 cm) (clock)

Auction 5125 | Lot: 66145 | Dec 6, 2012

Sold For: $31,250.00

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$46,875 or more
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL CHINESE CLOISONNÉ PALACE VASES
Maker unknown, Chinese, Qing dynasty
41 inches high x 10-1/2 inches diameter (104.1 x 26.7 cm)

(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5100 | Lot: 66154 | Jun 14, 2012

Sold For: $31,250.00

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$46,875 or more
A GERMAN CARVED AND APPLIED OVAL IVORY CHARGER
Maker unknown, Germany, circa 1870-1890
Unmarked
0-1/2 x 18-3...
Auction 5040 | Lot: 71013 | Mar 31, 2010

Sold For: $31,070.00
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL FRENCH NAPOLEON III STYLE BRONZE, GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURAL THIRTEEN-LIGHT TORCHERES
Unknown maker, probably Paris, France, late 20th century
Marks: BARBADIEMME, PARIS (sic)
113 inches high (287.0 cm)

Provenance:
Ray and Clare Stern Estate

(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5065 | Lot: 66064 | Jun 1, 2011

Sold For: $29,875.00
Unknown (Mexican, 19th Century)
Veracruz Album, late 1860s
Comprises 54 albumen prints mounted one per page, bound in leather album
the prints range in sizes 3-1/8 x 4-3/4 inches (7.9 x 12 cm) to 10-1/2 x 8 inches (26.6 x 20.3 cm), and the album 14-1/8 x 18-1/8 inches (35.8 x 46 cm).

Including views of the city, native inhabitants, and tombs of soldiers killed in the 1864 War of the French Intervention.

Auction 5220 | Lot: 74057 | Nov 13, 2015

Sold For: $28,750.00

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$43,125 or more
A GERMAN EBONY, EBONIZED WOOD, WALNUT, SILVER, GLASS AND HARDSTONE MOUNTED CASE CLOCK
Maker unknown, Germany, 17th century elements and later
40-1/2 inches high (102.9 cm)

Auction 5125 | Lot: 66002 | Dec 6, 2012

Sold For: $27,500.00
A MONUMENTAL CHINESE SILVER AND SILVER GILT DRAGON BOAT ON STAND
Maker unknown, China, 20th century
Unmarked
18-1/4 inches high x 24-3/4 inches long (46.4 x 62.9 cm) (including stand)
277.4 ounce (gross) (including stand)

Auction 5108 | Lot: 68132 | Sep 25, 2012

Sold For: $27,500.00

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$40,000 or more
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Brushstrokes, 1967
Screenprint in colors on off-white wove paper
22-3/4 x 30-7/8 inches (57.8 x 78.4 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 107/300 (aside from an unknown number of artist's proofs)
Signed and editioned in pencil lower right
Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, for the Pasadena Art Museum, California
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, New York

Auction 8235 | Lot: 65057 | Oct 16, 2025

Sold For: $27,500.00
ALBERTO VARGAS (American, 1896-1982)
"Does This Look Like a Nice Spot For a Picnic, Mr. Morton?", Playboy pin-up, July 1968
Pencil and watercolor on board
27 x 17 in.
Signed lower right

From the Don Sanders Collection.

Auction 5140 | Lot: 76121 | Jul 31, 2013

Sold For: $27,500.00
A Complete Set of Chinese Carved Root-Wood Taoist Immortals

Unknown maker, Chinese
19th century, Qing Dynas...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33475 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $26,290.00
A French Louis XV-style Mahogany and Gilt Bronze Bureau Plat

Unknown maker, Paris, France
Circa 1870-1890
Auction 654 | Lot: 33427 | Nov 1, 2007

Sold For: $26,290.00
American Artist (20th Century)
Kelly's Heroes, movie poster, 1970
Oil on board
32 x 28.5 in.
Not signed

Auction 5347 | Lot: 71003 | Apr 24, 2018

Sold For: $25,000.00
A Superb Italian Cabinet of Carved Ivory and Ebonized Wood

Unknown maker, Italy
Eighteenth Century
Ivory, ebonized wood...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33557 | Oct 20, 2006

Sold For: $25,000.00
Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
El Sueño (La Noche de los pobres), 1932
Lithograph on wove paper
16-3/8 x 11-7/8 inches (41.6 x 30.2 cm) (image)
21-1/4 x 15-1/4 inches (54 x 38.7 cm) (sheet)
Ed. 75/100 (there was also an unknown number of artist's proofs)
Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil lower left
Published by Weyhe Gallery, New York

Auction 8042 | Lot: 65061 | Apr 22, 2021

Sold For: $25,000.00
Lee Brown Coye (American, 1907-1981)
The Vampire, Weird Tales magazine cover, July 1947
Oil on canvasboard
24 x 16 inches (61.0 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower center

From the Gary Munson Collection

This illustration was listed on page 163 of Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye by Luis Ortiz (NonStop, 2005).

Auction 8055 | Lot: 71016 | Oct 4, 2021

Sold For: $25,000.00

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$37,500 or more
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)
Île de la Cité, Paris, 1932
Gelatin silver print, printed later
9-1/2 x 14-1/8 inches (24.1 x 35.9 cm) (image)
12 x 16 inches (sheet)
Signed in ink and embossed with photographer's blindstamp, lower margin recto. Titled and dated in pencil by an unknown hand, verso.

Auction 8093 | Lot: 73078 | Oct 11, 2022

Sold For: $25,000.00

Make Offer to Owner
$45,000 or more
A Marble Bust of Julius Caesar

Unknown artist
Marble
26 inches high x 25 inches wide x 16 inches deep
Auction 676 | Lot: 33106 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
A French Aubusson Carpet

Unknown maker, France
19th century
Wool
Marks: none
16 feet wide x 17.3 ...
Auction 654 | Lot: 33842 | Nov 2, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
A Pair of French Rococo-style Gilt Bronze and Kingwood Clock and Barometers

Unknown maker, Paris, France
Circa 1850-1860...
Auction 654 | Lot: 33428 | Nov 1, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
A Pair of Empire Style Gilt Bronze and Malachite Gueridons

Unknown maker, France
Twentieth Century
Gilt bronze and mala...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33339 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $23,900.00
A Pair of French Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinese Crackle-Glazed Porcelain Ewers

Unknown makers, France and Chi...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33331 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $23,900.00
A Rare Forty-Eight Piece Tiffany & Co. William K. Vanderbilt Pattern Flatware Service, New York, New York, circa 1885
Marks: TIFFANY & CO, STERLING
Marks to knife blades: (V-crown-r), JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS, CUTLERS TO HER MAJESTY, (star-Maltese cross)
10-1/2 inches long (26.7 cm) (longest, dinner knife)
101.90 troy ounces (weighable)

The lot comprising:

12 dinner knives;
12 dinner forks;
12 pickle forks;
12 place spoons;
48 total.

The William K. Vanderbilt pattern and its sister service, the Cornelius Vanderbilt pattern, are two of approximately ten known private flatware patterns produced by Tiffany & Company in the last quarter of the nineteenth century for America's wealthiest families including John Mackay, John Carter Brown, J. Pierpont Morgan, William Randolph Hearst, and others. The firm employed Charles T. Grosjean, acclaimed designer of Tiffany's Lap Over Edge and Chrysanthemum patterns, to design the two Vanderbilt family services, and reportedly charged the family $10,000 before actual production to draft and patent the designs, and create the dies. The patent date for the William Kissim Vanderbilt pattern was issued on January 13, 1885, and manufacture began shortly thereafter. To the front of the handle terminal to each piece in the service is the Vanderbilt coat of arms. The front of the stems bear type-specific scenery depicting allegories of Actaeon, Hercules, and Diana, overtly illustrating the utensils' celebration of the hunt at the table. The reverse of the terminals bear a WVK monogram above a stag's head, quiver, and horn, all above a laurel wreath cascade terminating with a grotesque mask; the reverse of the knife handles bear lion's head below monogram and conforming laurel flourishes. Complete census data for the William K. Vanderbilt service is unknown, and a number of examples in silv
Auction 5297 | Lot: 74114 | Apr 20, 2017

Sold For: $23,750.00
A GERMAN JEWEL ENCRUSTED SILVER AND BONE CHESS SET
Unknown maker, Hannau. Germany, circa 1970
Marks: STERLIN...
Auction 5040 | Lot: 71026 | Mar 31, 2010

Sold For: $22,705.00
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002)
Fifteen Photographs Portfolio, 1929-1972
Gelatin silver prints, printed 1974
7-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches (18.4 x 24.1 cm) or the reverse (images/sheets)
Each signed by the artist and editioned 32/75 in an unknown hand in pencil, mount recto.
Published by Double Elephant Press, New York.

Auction 8255 | Lot: 73349 | Apr 7, 2026

Sold For: $22,500.00

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$33,750 or more
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE TEXAS COLLECTOR

WILLIAM AIKEN WALKER (American, 1838-1921)
Cabin Scene
...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77058 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $21,510.00
A Russian Silver Gilt and Enamel Icon

Unknown maker, Moscow, Russia
1896-1908
Silver gilt, enamel, oil on board
Marks:...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33432 | Oct 20, 2006

Sold For: $21,510.00
A Roman Strigil Sarcophagus Front

Roman
Circa 3rd century A.D.
Marble
87 inches high x 23 inches wide...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33566 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $21,510.00
Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)
Hand of the Potter Amado Galvan, Tonala, Mexico, 1925
Gelatin silver print, printed later
9-1/2 x 7-1/8 inches (24.1 x 18.1 cm) (image/sheet)
Partial signature and 'Carmel' in the photographer's hand. Credited and titled in pencil by an unknown hand, mount verso.

Auction 8071 | Lot: 73127 | May 24, 2022

Sold For: $20,627.50

Make Offer to Owner
$30,941 or more
A Suite of Napoleon III Giltwood Salon Furniture

Unknown maker, France
Circa 1850-70
Gilded wood, upholstery
Unmarked<...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33335 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $20,315.00
Peter the Great: A Russian Petrine Silver Presentation Kovsh
Maker unknown, Likely Moscow Armory, ca. 1690, and with scratched inventory number F5176
4-1/4 x 7-1/2 x 5-1/8 inches (10.8 x 19.1 x 13.0 cm)
348 grams (11.18 troy ounces)

Auction 8188 | Lot: 82001 | Dec 16, 2024

Sold For: $20,000.00
A Russian Empire Gilt Bronze and Inlaid Marble Table

Unknown maker, Russia
Early Nineteenth Century
Gilt bronze, marble...
Auction 637 | Lot: 33341 | Oct 19, 2006

Sold For: $19,717.50
A FRENCH GILT BRONZE, EBONIZED AND GILT WOOD CABINET AND MIRROR WITH TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS INLAY
Unknown maker, probably Paris, France, circa 1880
Unmarked
113 x 89 x 22 inches (287.0 x 226.1 x 55.9 cm)

Provenance:
Ray and Clare Stern Estate

Auction 5065 | Lot: 66042 | Jun 1, 2011

Sold For: $19,120.00
A Pair of Chinese Jade Pilgrim Flasks

Unknown maker, China
19th century
Carved jade
Unmarked
30 in...
Auction 676 | Lot: 33450 | Oct 13, 2007

Sold For: $19,120.00

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