Winter antiquities sales
Jerome M. Eisenberg reports on an explosive art market that produced record prices at Sotheby's and Christie's antiquities auctions in December
Sotherby's
Continuing the excitement generated by last December's record-breaking sales, the New York auction houses again produced admirable results.
Lot 35: Egyptian basalt head of a king
Sold for
Lot 23: Marble head of a Hellenistic prince
Sold for $602,500
Lot 8: Marble Cycladic figure of a goddess
Sold for $16,500,00
Lot 16: Roman marble group, Leda and the Swan
Sold for $16,500,00
Lot 13: Roman marble head of Zeus
Sold for $206,500
Lot 12: Roman marble head of Zeus Ammon
Sold for $3,554,500
Lot 14: Roman marble torso of a man
Sold for $194,500
Lot 32: Greek gold diadem
Sold for $218,500
Lot 34: Egyptian greywacke bust of a man
Sold for $206,500
Lot 24: Roman marble head of Antonia the Younger
Sold for $194,500
Lot 1: Attic red-figure lekythos
Sold for $146,500
Lot 26: Roman marble strigillated Dionysiac sarcophagus
Sold for $206,500
Lot 33: Egyptian basalt head of Tuthmosis
Sold for $602,500
