Post auction sale ends on March 24, 2017
Dear clients,
We would like to remind you of our post auction sale for auctions 131A 'Italian Design', 131B 'Design' and 131C 'Murano Glass'.
Many rare and beautiful items are still available until Friday, March 24, 2017.
Yours,
Askan Quittenbaum
Auction 131A 'Italian Design'
Spring fever for Italian Design – Quittenbaum's first auction of the year brings 'La dolce Vita' into the grey February sky.
High demand from international clients via telephone lines and the internet as well as on the floor provided the first Design auction of the year with a hammer quota of more than 50% and a row of very high hammer prices. Most popular were the classics of the important Italian designers of the 20th century.
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Auction 131B 'Design'
Lush hammer prices for International Design too – exciting bidding wars and maximum prices also on the second day of the auction series 131
After the great success of the 'Italian Design' auction on the previous day, the International Design shone with a sales quota of almost 50% and many very satisfying hammer prices as well.
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Auction 131C 'Murano Glass'
The success of the previous two sales continued on Thursday, February 23, the day of the Murano Glass auction. Two thirds of the offer sold successfully, many pieces experiencing considerable price increases in the process
The battle started already in the beginning, an American collector fighting a German collector over a large, green 'Pulegoso' bowl by Napoleone Martinuzzi. The hammer fell at € 7,500 in favour of the German bidder, all but quadrupling the piece's lower tax.
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