Example sentences of "christie 's [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie 's adopted a different tack , dropped its mid-season sale of Impressionist art and used contemporary art as the leader for a sale of modern British paintings and sculpture which took place the following morning ( see p. 24 ) . |
| 2 | Christie 's offered the second part of the important Korthaus collection in a mixed owner sale . |
| 3 | Christie 's reversed the usual pattern and loaded the front of its evening sale of 5 May with twenty-six new and recent works from the estate of Swedish collector and trader , Fredrik Roos . |
| 4 | It was not always thus : in 1983 , when Christie 's sold the first batch of 25,000 pieces of Ming porcelain , found ( also by Hatcher ) in a junk on a reef on the South China Sea , prices were low , because neither auction house nor collectors could see beyond the porcelain 's dull glaze to its historic possibilities . |
| 5 | Following the outstanding results for continental furniture achieved in London and New York last season , Christie 's produced a confident catalogue for their 4 November New York sale with a few outstanding lots , most of which sold , although only just . |
| 6 | In the light of the recent debates over the attribution of the prints of Mantegna and his school which arose during the recent exhibition , it was particularly apposite of Christie 's to produce a beautiful impression of ‘ The Flagellation with the Pavement ’ ( B.XIII ) ( lot 30 , est. £120,000–160,000 ) , here attributed to Mantegna with a correspondingly strong estimate . |