● “New York opened doors for us,” said Dino Tomasso of London and Leeds. “The fair strengthened our museum contacts,” added his brother Raffaello. Among their sales to collectors was a pair of bronze oval medallions portraying Neptune and Venus with Cupid by Lodovico Pogliaghi (1857-1950), priced in the region of $175,000, and a bronze Farnese Hercules by Pietro Cipriani (1680-1745) for around $200,000.
● Galerie Delalande from Paris sold a rare standing mechanical universal equinoctial ring dial c.1760 to a European museum. The dial is engraved with the latitude of more than 100 cities all over the world and is signed Heath and Wing, Strand London. The price was €230,000.
● Arlie Sulka of Lillian Nassau sold a pair of Art Deco lounge chairs with an ottoman by Paul Poiret (1870-1944) that the late Lillian Nassau used in her bedroom. Galerie Perrin France sold a pair of armchairs from the Louis XVI period stamped by the menusier Jean- Baptiste Boulard (c.1725-89).