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   ‘The best of their type’ — up close with 10 rare and precious emblems from the spirit world
   
   
   
   Eclectic objects that delighted Oliver Hoare, an inveterate collector of the fabulous
   
   
   
   The ‘Grande Dame of Palm Beach’ — highlights from the Terry Allen Kramer Collection
   
   
   
   Drinking and brawling in 17th-century Rome: the art and bawdy times of the Bentvueghels
   
   
   
   From exclusive luxury cars to the world’s finest wines — how one man built two business empires
   
   
   
   Islamic geometry, Western abstraction and the Iranian artist famous for her mirror mosaics
   
   
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   Scents and sensuality — meet the designer tasked with creating a bespoke fragrance for Classic Week
   
   
   
   As a major work by Jan de Beer comes to auction, we talk to the curator of an exhibition of the Flemish painter’s altarpieces
   
   
   
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   In 1954, when Andy Warhol was a children’s book illustrator, he and his mother published 190 copies of a book featuring drawings of 18 of his 25 pet cats— all of which bar one were named Sam. This is book no. 69
   
   Estimate: $60,000-80,000
   22-23 October, New York
   
   
   
   
   
   
   This copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is thought to have been in a French royal collection. It was acquired by John and Johanna Bass, who in 1964 donated it to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach
   
   Estimate: $30,000-50,000
   29 October, New York
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Double-gourd vases are said to bring good fortune because their shape represents fertility. This celadon glazed example has been dated to the Jiaqing period (1796-1820)
   
   Estimate: £50,000-80,000
   5 November, London
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Only around 300 models of the Rolex Submariner reference 6200 were ever made — but this is the only known example to have the watch’s depth rating printed on its dial. It was purchased more than 60 years ago in Curaçao, and has remained in the same family
   
   Estimate: CHF250,000-350,000
   11 November, Geneva
   
   
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   Peer into the faces of the past at the preview of Ancient Sculpture from the Collection of Dr. Anton Pestalozzi, 24-27 October

    

   springfld.arsenal, Oct 19, 2019

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   silverthwait Well-Known Member

   How nice to see the Mona Lisa actually smiling!!!

    

   silverthwait, Oct 19, 2019

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