An 1109-carat uncut diamond, the largest to be discovered in over a century, is now set to be auctioned in a stand-alone sale in London.
Going once, going twice, sold! Jewellery that belonged to Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI and arguably France's most famous queen were auctioned by Sotheby's on Wednesday as part of their "Royal jewels from the Bourbon Parma Family" event. Take a look at the gorgeous jewellery that was up for sale.
Sotheby's said six telephone and online bidders sought the document and it was eventually bought by Cisneros Corp chief executive Eduardo Cisneros.
In 2003, the 200-year-old sword was bought with much fanfare by liquor baron Vijay Mallya.
Immediately after the auction Alex Branczik, Sotheby's senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe said: "It appears we just got Banksy-ed."
An anonymous bidder bought the letter written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1922 to Rabindranath Tagore's eldest brother Dwijendranath at seven times its pre-sale estimate while a rare copy of the Indian Constitution sold for nearly eight times its offered price to a private collector at a Sotheby's sale in London.
The artwork was bought by an anonymous buyer, who placed bids through Warren Weitman Jr, Sotheby's chairman of North America and South America.
A Mughal-era manuscript filled with Indian miniatures discovered locked up in a cupboard inside a rural England castle is now up for sale at Sotheby's upcoming auction in London.
It is perceived as a landmark document in the evolution of the rights of man. The manuscript was bought by an unknown buyer who bid for the document over the telephone. However, the Magna Carta was sold at a relatively lower price as it was expected to fetch as much as US$ 30 million, according to pre-sale estimates.
Sotheby's auction will be followed on Thursday by Christie's.
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In its latest report for the office market, property consultant Cushman and Wakefield said the total seats leased by enterprises could cross 50,000 during the 2021 calendar year. Enterprises had leased 18,213 seats in the first six months of the 2020 calendar year and 36,255 desks during the entire last year.
A plum-sized flawless diamond known as the Pink Star has been sold for a staggering $83 million at an auction in London, a record price for a gemstone.
Standing 13 feet high and 40 feet long, including its tail, Stan is made up of 188 bones, making it one of the largest and most complete T-rex skeletons in the world.
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A rare pink diamond is set to hit a new world record for a jewel sold at auction next week at Sotheby's.
The shirt is currently on display at England's National Football Museum in Manchester.
An unusually large pink diamond sold for a record-breaking $50 million (Rs 361 crore) on Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Geneva. Christie's said renowned jeweller Harry Winston was the buyer, saying it was a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond.
More than 45 years after the country's first President Rajendra Prasad's 18K pink gold Rolex Oyster watch was stolen, a case has been lodged in Patliputra police station in Patna, police on Tuesday said.
Edvard Munch's iconic painting 'The Scream', considered one of the most recognisable in art world, was sold for over USD 119 million, creating a new record for the highest price ever paid for a work of art at any auction.
Bihar News/People of the native village of country's first President Rajendra Prasad protesting against auction of his wrist watch.
The world's oldest soccer rule book dating from the 1850s was sold for 881,250 ($1.4 million) at a Sotheby's auction in London, the book's owners Sheffield FC said on their website on Thursday.
The government on Wednesday expressed disappointment over a French company snapping up Mahatma Gandhi's Johannesburg house, through Sotheby's auction firm, but said it will continue efforts to acquire the heritage property through a public sector company."The matter concerns national sentiment and I will leave no stone unturned to acquire the historic property and declare it a national monument," said Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal.
Osian's auction of modern and contemporary masters on June 30 in Mumbai fetched the highest average lot per price of any auction of Indian works this summer. At Rs 59 lakh, it bested Christie's Rs 39 lakh, Sotheby's Rs 24 lakh and Saffronart's Rs 17 lakh.
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The lot, which included 33 pages of handwritten drafts of a series of articles for Young India from 1921 and 11 autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi, sold for 45,600.
This is the largest single-owner sale of Indian modern art, but it is for reasons other than this historicity that it will be remembered, says Kishore Singh.
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One of the world's rarest and most sought after collector coins, the 1933 Double Eagle, was sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York on Tuesday July 30, 2002 for the record sum of $7.59 million.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has bought most of the items related to former Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan which went under the hammer for over 1 million pounds with Sotheby's auctioneers in London.
The painting was one of 34 pieces on sale from the Greentree Foundation from the collection of Mr and Mrs John Hay Whitney.
Pablo Picasso's 1905 masterpiece Garcon a la Pipe became the world's most expensive painting ever when it sold for $104.168 million (Rs 468 crore) at an artwork auction at Sotheby's Holdings Inc. in New York on Wednesday (May 5).
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