The second day of Sotheby’s Hong Kong autumn wine sales features the Ultimate Nine from the Bordeaux Winebank Collection. Following the success of the previous sales from the Bordeaux Winebank Collection in New York, Hong Kong and London over the past year, this auction will continue to impress wine lovers by presenting a magnificent range of Five Star Provenance Bordeaux from the highly sought after vintages: 1982, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003 and 2005. Highlights from this selection include over ten cases of Lafite – including six bottles of 1982 and five cases of 2005 Lafite; over 20 cases of Latour including five cases of 2000 and 2003; fifteen cases of Margaux and Haut Brion including 2005 Margaux and 2005 Haut Brion; and wonderful selections of Mouton, La Mission Haut Brion, Pétrus, Ausone, Cheval Blanc and Yquem.
Among the other twenty cellars offered in this auction is a spectacular selection of 170 lots of Château Lafite (1986–2007) from two Rothschild family members, whose wines had never left Château Lafite until being inspected by Sotheby’s specialists.

Sotheby’s annual selling exhibition of monumental sculpture returns to Chatsworth for its sixth installment this autumn, with an extraordinary line up of artists, many of whom have never been shown at this magnificent location in the Peak District before. It runs from September 16th to October 30th.

Arbor Antiques Services promotes a Spring and Fall Round Top Show every year during the nationally known Antiques Festival in Round Top, Texas. Our Round Top show site is located on eight acres at the American Legion Post #338 on Hwy. 237 off of Hwy. 290. We are just 2 miles from downtown Round Top. We offer dealer spaces in an air-conditioned hall and in several large big top tents. We have free admission, free parking and an on-site cafe. As an antique dealer or a shopper, you will not want to miss this antiquing experience in Round Top, Texas.

As its title implies, our sale of American Paintings, Furniture, Folk Art and Silver on September 27th and 28th presents a wide and notable selection of decorative and fine arts produced in the United States starting from the mid-eighteenth century onward.

Sothebys’ Paris is to host “Turkophilia Revealed”, a stunning exhibition of Ottoman Art from private collections.

The exhibition will be held during the 14th International Congress on Turkish Art and will feature important examples of silverware, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy and Turqueries.

From 19th – 22nd September 2011.

Watch interviews with Chinese contemporary artists, Liu Wei and Qiu Zhijie at Sothebys.com

Following the great success of the sale of The Ullens Collection – The Nascence of Avant-Garde China, the second installment, The Ullens Collection –  Experimentation and Evolution, offers an extraordinary selection of seminal works by pioneering conceptual and video artists rarely seen before on the market, such as Chen Zhen’s 1992 installation Divine Judgment. Important early works by artists such as Liu Wei and Zeng Fanzhi will once again be a significant part of the sale.

This fundraising auction, offering over 30 lots, is dedicated to the University of Oxford China Centre, Europe’s leading interdisciplinary centre for the study of China. The Centre draws on Oxford’s historic links to China, dating to 1604 when the Bodleian Library acquired its first Chinese collection and the 1687 arrival of the scholar Shen Fuzong, the first Chinese visitor to the United Kingdom. The items donated from alumni and friends will help fund the centre’s new building, bringing together academics and research that will increase understanding, dialogue and collaboration between East and West on a range of subjects from Chinese art and literature to public health and energy issues.

Responding to the ever-growing demand for innovative and quality works from the region, Sotheby’s auction of Contemporary Art / Arab & Iranian features a diverse group of paintings and sculptures representing the modern masters from private collections as well as contemporary works fresh to the market.