This Old Master painting, above, of The Adoration of the Magi in the manner of Italian painter Vincenzo Carducci (c.1576-1638) led a recent Dorset sale.
Estimated at £600-1000, the large 3ft 5in x 5ft 11in (1.05 x 1.82m) oil in an Italianate painted frame was pursued to £5800 at Charterhouse Auctions (21% buyer’s premium) of Sherborne on July 27.
It had formed part of a small collection of Continental Old Master paintings offered in the same salerooms in April but had failed to find a buyer estimated at £4000-8000.