Sotheby’s Christmas Wine Sale features magnificent Champagne and other vinous delights

UNMATCHED SELECTION OF ART AND ANTIQUES NOW AVAILABLE TO COLLECTORS IN DENMARK, FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

AUCTION RECORDS ESTABLISHED FOR WORKS BY MATISSE, MAILLOL AND MORISOT

MONUMENTAL MANET SELLS FOR $20.9 MILLION

22 WORKS SELL FOR MORE THAN $1 MILLION

To be sold at Sotheby’s in London

— Including objects from the Collection of Dr. Eli B. and Aimee Cohen —

To Be Sold November 20, 2000 at Sotheby’s New York

A Teotihuacan Mask, Classic, ca. A.D. 450-650, est. $75/95,000

— Navajo Textiles from the Collection of John L. Ernst —

To Be Sold at Sotheby’s New York November 29, 2000

(Greek pottery Olpe from the Geometric Period, dating to the 8th century B.C)

To be sold at Sotheby’s in London

THE HIGHEST PRICES FETCHED FOR:

CHINESE PORCELAIN

CHINESE GLASS

QING BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN

ENAMEL WARE

CHINESE BRONZE FIGURES

— Tamayo Masterpiece, Sandias (est. $900,000/1.2million) —
— Miniature Frida Kahlo self-portrait comes to the market for the first time —
— Exceptional Diego Rivera oils, watercolors and drawings —
— Earliest known oil painting of São Paulo, Brazil —

(William Birch, The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, 1800)

-- COLLECTION PROVIDES PARTICULAR INSIGHT INTO PHILADELPHIA HISTORY --

UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL DESIGNS FROM £100-£6,000

FIFTH YEAR IS CELEBRATED WITH ‘OUT MODED’, AN EXHIBTION OF CONTEMPORARY STYLE FOR THE OUTDOORS CURATED BY JANICE BLACKBURN

AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE

Successively in the Hermitage Museum St Petersburg and the Library of Marcel Jeanson To be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London

To be sold by Sotheby’s

Including African Art from the Egon Guenther Family Collection
Auction To Be Held at Sotheby’s New York November 18, 2000

“Now I know what it is like to be on ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’!” says consignor.