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Why Provenance is Paramount As the holiday season approaches with calendars full of significant auctions and art fairs, you’re probably finding your inbox filled with emails reflecting on the sales trends expected to shape the market in the coming year. Allen, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Collection.
In our experience, items with the most provenance are most sought after.” While age might leave artifacts fragile or damaged, time has also embellished Chinese works of art with enduring beauty and relevancy. Sold for ¥1,500,000 JPY via Tomikai Auction (Oct 2023). Sold for $340,000 USD via Bonhams (Dec 2023).
It was sold on eBay for $10,995 in April 2023. Values depend on age, artwork, quality, and popularity of the movies or actors they depict. percent increase in transactions from 2020 through 2023. Prices since 2020 have ranged between $1 for single cards to $30,000 for a lot of seven from various movies that sold in March 2023.
Sold for $5,000 USD via Eternity Gallery (February 2023). Sold for $2,200 USD via Eternity Gallery (September 2023). More certainty comes with the role of religious statues by the time of the Bronze Age when major cultural centers from ancient Sumer to ancient Egypt exhibited richly complex pantheons of deities and devotional practice.
Sold for $85,618,000HKD via Sotheby’s (October 2023). The exceptionally varied artistic production of this golden age of Chinese culture, from ceramics to painting and calligraphy can be separated between the two dynasties that share distinct characteristics and artistic achievements that evolved Chinese cultural heritage.
On March 6, 2023, WorthPoint added 502,766 items to its Price Guide, totaling $30,816,118.33with an average lot price of $61.29. And while this tusk did have a minor repair to the tip, you wouldn’t know it unless you were inspecting it under blacklight, a faint reminder of its age and history.
These works, which have endured over the ages and have been cast for reasons from royal to religious to revolutionary, continue to captivate contemporary artists and collectors. Sold for $28,485,000 USD via Sotheby’s (May 2023). Statue of Marco Aurelio Musei Capitolini. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
In today’s age of online streaming, we have access to the entire history of music at our fingertips. The autographs of legendary artists can be worth thousandsfor example, a copy of The Velvet Rope signed by Janet Jackson sold for nearly $4000 in 2023. Thanks in part to reissues, vinyl is making a huge comeback.
Uniforms that are well preserved and where provenance can be firmly established will always find an interested buyer. The color differences provide key information when establishing provenance over Revolutionary War uniforms. A rare uniform from the Dental Corps of the 92 nd Infantry Division went for over $2000 in 2023.
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