SALE HIGHLIGHTS
Objects of Vertu have been sold at 25 Blythe Road within Matthew Barton Ltd’s series of auctions since November 2009.
The Objects of Vertu department deals with an extensive range, from the finest gold boxes through to fans, enamels, silver smallwork, intaglio or cameo carvings and Russian Decorative Arts including Fabergé. The biannual European and Asian Works of Art sales include a section devoted to this field of ‘precious objects’.
Among recent highlights are: a Victorian silver snuff box by Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham, 1854, which sold for £40,000; a carved agate cameo profile portrait of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, by Nicola Morelli (1771-1838), circa 1810, sold for £16,000; a Feodor Rückert cloisonné enamel desk tray sold for £20,000 and a Hermann Böhm Viennese enamel cabaret set, which sold for £17,000.
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Contact the Objects of Vertu Department
+44 (0)20 7806 5541
SALE HIGHLIGHTS
OUR SPECIALISTS
MATTHEW BARTON
European & Decorative Works of Art
HENRIETTA GRANT
Jewellery, European Works of Art
