International

The coin sale staged by David Guest Numismatics with Numismatica Ars Classica in Zurich on November 19 includes two rare medals issued by the Royal Humane Society.

The September 25 Boston Collects sale at the Massachusetts branch of Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) included items deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, for the benefit of its collection.

Eugene de Blaas (1843-1931) made his reputation painting genre scenes that captured beautiful young women chatting, flirting and working in his native Italy.

Frances Allitt and Laura Chesters report on business developments in Paris, London and Dorset

During a summer walk-through of a home in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, Frank Kaminski saw something that compelled his attention. Emerging from beneath a pile of boxes and blankets was a highly detailed carved paw foot.

Artists’ portfolios prove popular as Swiss auctioneer’s own firm disperses items from his personal library

The Cybis company, founded in 1940 in Astoria, New York, by Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957) and his wife Marja (1905-58) produced porcelain figures for almost 80 years before it closed in 2019. Among its best-known models is a chess set.

One of the biggest attractions at the Exposition Universelle, held in Paris in 1878, was Le Grand Ballon Captif, a huge tethered balloon, constructed by Baptiste Henri Jacques Giffard, a pioneer of airship travel.

A pair of monumental silver candelabra with a royal provenance is going under the hammer at German auction house Wendl on October 28-31.

No self-respecting clock enthusiast was going to let an early 19th century precision longcase clock get away for the guide of €1000 in an auction held by Historia (27% buyer’s premium) in Berlin.