An exceptional royal teapot put up for auction in Cherbourg
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Sunday 5 and Monday 6 December, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., the auction house in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche) opens its doors for exceptional sales of works of art, coins in gold and silver, pewter, porcelain and jewelry, including a superb 10.37-carat Ceylon sapphire, and some Norman jewelry.
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A teapot of Queen Marie Leszczynska
Among the prestigious lots of this sale, an extremely rare small teapot in Meissen porcelain from the service offered to the Queen of France Marie Leszczynska by the King of Poland Auguste III in March 1737. This extremely rare piece had been bought at a flea market by a local art lover… who had smelled the good find!
This exceptional piece is estimated between 15,000 and 20,000 euros.
The Sunday sale will end with one hundred and fifty pieces of furniture, including current creations by the famous Belgian designer Olivier de Schrijver, as well as 18th and 19th century furniture.
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Weapons and books
Monday, December 6 at 10 a.m., place auxarmes, sixty numbers of old weapons, uniforms including a collection dedicated to the Navy: boarding sabers, dagger, pikes , ax and sabers from the Consulate to the 1st Empire.
At 1.30 p.m., to end the year and occupy your long evenings, the Hôtel des Ventes invites you to purchase around thirty books, including Jules Verne, or the catalog raisonné of the work of Corot which will open the auction ball before the 420 paintings including many regional artists.
Here again, there will be something for all tastes and for all budgets, with estimates ranging from €15 to €10,000, with many works estimated between €50 and €300.
Over these two days of sales, exactly 1,487 lots will be put up for sale.
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Public exhibition: Friday December 3 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday December 4 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment from November 29 to December 2. Face-to-face sales at the Hôtel des Ventes, 4, rue Noyon (sanitary pass required) and Live on interenchères-live.com
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