Wang Hing tea set. Authenticated Internet Auctions image.
LONDON – Authenticated Internet Auctions (AIA) will present its debut auction on Friday, Nov. 22, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. The buyer’s premium is a straight 12 percent, with nothing added for Internet bidders.
The company’s Autumn Fine Arts Sale will feature the finest-quality antiques, magnificent silver, rare clocks and watches; fine jewelry, Russian antiques, enamels, perfume bottles and objets de vertu.
A featured lot is an 18K gold diamond and enamel brooch by Asprey, realistically modeled as a roaring tiger. Pave set with a generous array of white and yellow brilliant-cut diamonds, the tiger has marquis-shape emerald eyes, and black enamel “textured fur” highlights. Its open mouth reveals a deeply enameled red tongue and “sharp” teeth.
Another great prize in the sale is a British portrait miniature of a young lady with brown locks. Set in a gold frame, it dates to around 1780.
An important circa-1780 South Staffordshire enamel perfume bottle was created in the form of billing doves. The two birds, draped in rose garlands, bear the legend “Le modelle pour prenes.”
A Chinese bamboo-pattern silver tea set by Wang Hing, circa 1890, consists of a tea pot with hinged cover, one milk jug, and one sugar basin. Each is marked with a heraldic cartouche with engraved monogram. Dimensions are: tea pot 6.75 x 7.75 x 4in., milk jug 3.75 x 4.75 x 3.25in., sugar basin 4 x 6.5 by 3.25 in. Total weight is 32oz.
A wonderful Swiss gold carne de balle with an enamel miniature on one side and a watercolor depicting a beauty on the other, was made around 1800. It is approximately 4 inches tall.
For additional information, email info@authenticatedinternetauctions.com.
View the fully illustrated catalog for AIA’s Nov. 22 debut auction and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
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ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Wang Hing tea set. Authenticated Internet Auctions image. Tiger brooch. Authenticated Internet Auctions image. Bilston perfume. Authenticated Internet Auctions image. Wang Hing tea set. Authenticated Internet Auctions image. Gold canet de balle. Authenticated Internet Auctions image.
