HC-2601 · Timed online
Old Master Paintings & European Works of Art
Including property from three private collections
Sale details
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The programme
How this sale runs
Time reads downward. Sessions are numbered in Roman, as they are in the printed catalogue.
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Session I
Paintings
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT · Lots 1–58
- 4 Portrait of a gentleman in a black doublet Italian School $18,000 – 26,000 Live 1 day 8h
- 9 A river valley at dusk, with a herdsman on the near bank Circle of the Master of the Vallombrosa Landscape $4,000 – 6,000 Live 1 day 8h
- 14 Still life with fruit, a silver tazza and drapery Flemish School $120,000 – 180,000 Live 23m 5s
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Session II
Sculpture and European Works of Art
Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM EDT · Lots 59–112
- 22 A marble head of a youth After the Antique $9,000 – 14,000 Passed
- 31 A patinated bronze figure of a dancer Continental School $7,000 – 10,000 Live 37m 5s
- 38 A pair of Regency ormolu and cut-glass candelabra English $12,000 – 18,000 Live 1 day 8h
- 45 A terrestrial library globe on a mahogany stand English $6,000 – 9,000 Live 1 day 8h
- 52 A set of three tin-glazed earthenware chargers Dutch and Italian $1,800 – 2,600 Live 1 day 8h
- 58 An iridescent art glass vase with trailing decoration Bohemian $2,500 – 3,500 Live 2 days
- 63 A walnut writing desk with a leather inset top English $3,500 – 5,500 Live 2 days
- 71 A mahogany chest of four graduated long drawers English $2,800 – 4,200 Live 2 days
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Close
The last lot closes
Sunday, September 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT
Lots close in sequence, not together. A bid inside the final three minutes of a lot extends that lot by three minutes, and only that lot — so a late bid never ends the sale, it only prolongs the contest for the lot it was placed on.
Every lot
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- Offered without reserve.
- The seller has been guaranteed a minimum price, payable whether or not the lot sells.
- A third party has agreed to place an irrevocable written bid and has a financial interest in the outcome.
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The department
Old Master Paintings
Painting and drawing from the fifteenth century to the close of the eighteenth. The department catalogues under the disciplines of connoisseurship: an attribution is stated at the strength the evidence bears, and no higher.