Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, Switzerland

OLD MASTER PAINTINGS
ABEL GRIMMER (ca. 1570 Antwerp 1620). Suite of five allegories of the months of the year. Sold for CHF 745 000.
19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS
CARL SPITZWEG. A bathing nymph. Circa 1870. Sold for CHF 96 500.
OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (attributed to). The rest on the flight into Egypt. Sold for CHF 24 500.
FURNITURE
A PAIR OF IMPORTANT ORMOLU MOUNTED VASES "AUX TETES DE LIONS". Sold for CHF 156 500.
SCULPTURE
MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED, Gothic. Sold for CHF 42 500.
CARPETS
SILK GHAJAR KASHAN, antique. 201 x 320 cm. Sold for CHF 36 500.
KOLLER WEST
PAIR OF SEARCHLIGHTS, France, 20th century. Koller West auctions 19 - 23 September.
JEWELLERY
NATURAL PEARL NECKLACE, circa 1900. Sold for CHF 120 500.
BOOKS & AUTOGRAPHS
LYUBOV POPOVA. 5 x 5 = 25. Exhibition catalogue, Moscow, 1921. Sold for CHF 42 500.

SEPTEMBER AUCTIONS

Special auctions of Old Masters & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Prints – Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts – Books & Autographs – Jewellery

Auctions from 19 - 24 September

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Tulip Mania

A sharp increase in prices for tulip bulbs in early 17^th century Holland not only gave rise to the first economic bubble in history, but also to a series of beautiful watercolours.