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Lot 21 · Bust of Zeus · est. £180,000 – 250,000
Contemporary Evening Sale · New York · 18 Nov
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Sold(01) — Last season’s top lot · London
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hammer.
Woman in Green, with a Pomegranate. Circle of the Pre-Raphaelites, c. 1875. Estimate £1,200,000 – £1,800,000. Drag to bid — then let the hammer fall.
£1,500,000
164 lots · Hôtel des Bergues
Magnificent JewelsEmeralds from a Maharaja’s collection, a pearl sautoir of 321 natural pearls and a 31-carat D-colour diamond.
View the sale →48 lots · Rockefeller Plaza
Contemporary Evening SaleForty-eight works made after 1970, including three paintings that have never been offered at auction.
View the sale →212 lots · Admiralty
Fine Chinese CeramicsBlue-and-white porcelain from the Ming and Qing courts, from a single European family collection.
View the sale →56 lots · King Street
Old Masters Evening SalePortraits, still lifes and a newly rediscovered Pre-Raphaelite canvas, unseen since 1912.
View the sale →90 lots · King Street
Motor Cars & Fine WineThirty classic cars from a single Swiss garage, followed by a cellar of 4,000 bottles of Burgundy.
View the sale →

Lot 33 · Emerald and Diamond Necklace · est. £2,000,000 – 3,000,000
(03) — Live · Geneva saleroom · simulation
Current bid£2,100,000Room · paddle 112
Fair warning…
01Old MastersPainting from 1300 to 1850, from altarpieces to still lifes.
02ContemporaryArt made after 1970, from the studio to the saleroom.
03SculptureMarble, bronze and stone, from antiquity to now.
04JewelleryColoured stones, diamonds and natural pearls.
05WatchesPocket watches, complications and wristwatches.
06Asian ArtChinese ceramics, jades and works of art.
07Motor CarsCoachbuilt cars with a story and a logbook.
08WineCellars from Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne.
(05) — Condition report
Look closer.
Every lot is examined under ultraviolet, infrared and raking light. Tap a number.
Monogram and date, lower right, in red lake — visible under raking light.
Painted over an earlier apple: infrared shows the change of mind.
A fine, even web of cracks typical of the 1870s. No losses.
Never relined. The tacking edges are intact, a rarity for a work of this size.
£48.2mA still life of flowers in a vaseOld Masters · London 2019
$71.0mUntitled, a yellow canvasContemporary · New York 2022
CHF 31.8mA pink diamond of 18.96 caratsJewels · Geneva 2021
HK$268mA Ming dynasty blue-and-white jarAsian Art · Hong Kong 2023


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