"Gelos": auction results of the second and third day of the Auction, the
ARTinvestment.RU   06 марта 2012

March 2-3, in the "Gelos" Auction held six years: "Clock", "Household items and interior design," "Porcelain and Glass," "Silver", "arts" and Jewelry

second trading day started with Auction Hours , which was sold to one of the most interesting lots - table clock Faberge, in silver and enamel guilloche saturated blue. These watches were made by one of the most famous masters of brand - Henrik Vigstrema, the successor to the well-known to all collectors of Michael Perkhin responsible for the creation of the once for the royal family celebrated Easter in the form of boxes of eggs. In 1909, those hours were awarded as first prize for winning a race of Belarusian Hussar Colonel Peter Sukovkinu. This event indicates a commemorative inscription engraved around the circumference of the body.

Silver watch with enamel. Faberge firm Estimate: 1.5 million rubles Result: 1.8 million rubles

excellent result and a half times higher than the estimate showed intricate clock in a walnut tree made in the second half of XIX century an unknown master of Western Europe.

Floor striking clock in a carved case Estimate: 2.5 million rubles Result: 3.2 million rubles

At the auction of household items and interior design slightly higher estimate left one of the top lots - a carved ivory vase from the late XVIII century .

decorative vase of carved ivory Estimate: 2.5 million rubles Result: 2.6 million rubles

With more than fourfold excess of the stated pre-value of 100 000 were sold, decorative panels, "Scenes of happy Soviet life under Stalin," the artist studios of Palekh.

Panels "Scenes happy life in Stalin» Estimate: 100 000 rubles Result: 440 000 rubles

At Auction Silver expected, subjects showed a well-known shops in the Russian enamel Each of these lots has found its owner, the majority of transactions is done after a lengthy bargaining. Among other things, was sold to a silver sculpture - an allegory of Appreciation as a young girl. Small silver plastic pre-revolutionary Russia meets the modern and the antique market is rare and antique collector's value.

Most of the top lots were sold at prices far exceeding experts' predictions. For example, a silver cup with a lid factory Semenov left with a twofold excess of the already rather big estimate of 180,000 rubles, and a silver samovar brand Ovchinnikov buyer laid out in the sum of 1.150 million rubles, which was almost three times higher than the provisional estimate.

silver samovar workshop Pavel Ovchinnikov Estimate: 400 000 rubles Care: 1.150 million rubles