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Antiquities (Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Art)

Overview

The Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities Department, based in New York, conducts auctions twice a year, in June and December. Consignors and buyers come from all over the world.

Sotheby's has held the most renowned auctions of ancient art. They have included property from the distinguished collections of Norbert Schimmel, Ada Small Moore, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Christos G. Bastis, Charles Pankow, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. We hold the record for the two highest auction prices ever obtained in the field: the splendid Roman bronze figure of Artemis and the stag, sold in June 2007 for $28,600,000, and the famous Guennol Lioness sold in December 2007 for $57,161,000 (also the highest price paid at auction for a sculpture of any period).

Sales consist of lots estimated at $5,000-8,000 and up, and include a careful selection of fine sculptures and reliefs, bronzes, terracottas, glass, pottery, faience, textiles, and jewelry.
The Guennol Lioness

The Guennol Lioness

Hugh Hildesley presents the monumental power and mysterious charm of the five thousand-year-old Guennol Lioness. Measuring only three and a half inches tall, the one of a kind carving was sold in the Antiquities sale on 5 December 2007 in New York.