Winter Antiquities Sales Total $46 million at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s winter sales of Antiquities concluded this afternoon with a various owner sale which fetched $9,239,503, soaring past the $2.9/4.5 million estimate. It brought the combined total for both Antiquities auctions held at Sotheby’s this week to $46,008,753. Today’s sale follows the single owner evening sale of the Clarence Day Collection which included the staggering price of $23,826,500 for a Marble Portrait Bust of the Deified Antinous, Roman Imperial, Reign of Hadrian, Circa A.D. 130-138 which became the third highest price ever achieved for an Antiquity at auction.
Today’s sale was led by a Marble Group of a Satyr riding a Sea-Goat, Roman Imperial, Early Augustan, late 1st Century B.C which fetched $1,986,500 (est. $250/350,000). Only four other examples are known and the piece once formed part of an elaborate fountain in Rome. Other highlights included an Egyptian Green Schist Votive Cubit Rod of Mery-Ptah, late 18th Dynasty, circa 1330-1250 B.C. which sold for many multiples of the high estimate to fetch $1,762,500 (est. $150/250,000).
