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  • Auction Results | Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour | Wednesday 20 January 2021
Auction Results | Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour | Wednesday 20 January 2021

Auction Results | Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour | Wednesday 20 January 2021

Auction Results | Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour | Wednesday 20 January 2021

On Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 January, Dreweatts held a 3-day auction - and the first ever virtual house sale - selling the contents of the 17th century Grade I Palladian country house, Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire, the celebrated family home of James and Sophie Perkins.

This unique and well-loved collection of artworks, sculpture, furniture, taxidermy, modern design and curiosities such as a triceratops skull drew publicity and interest from around the world with thousands of people taking part. The Live Online Auction (Day 1 & 2) was a white glove event with everything selling and, together with the Timed Online Auction (Day 3), the sale totalled £4.1 million.

Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour: Day 1 & Day 2

Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour: Day 3

Day One Auction Highlights

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Lot 15: ‘The Aynhoe Unicorn' by James Perkins, 2015 | Sold for £35,000
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Lot 17: A pair of whaletail chairsby Mark Brazier-Jones (b.1956) | Sold for £10,000
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Lot 43: A Victorian plaster section from the parthenon frieze, attributed to D. Brucciani & Co, probably late 19th century, after the antique | Sold for £8,125
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Lot 51: A pair of gilt metal and coloured agate insect wall lights, Henri Fernandez for atelier Jacques Duval-Brasseur, 1970s | Sold for £13,750
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Lot 60: A gilt metal and coloured agate insect wall light, Henri Fernandez for atelier Jacques Duval-Brasseur, 1970s | Sold for £7,500
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Lot 65: Yayoi Kusama (Japanese b. 1929), Pumpkin (GT) (Kusama 229) | Sold for £27,500
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Lot 77: 'The original Aynhoe rocking zebra' by James Perkins, 2013 | Sold for £40,000
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Lot 87: Italian School (late 18th century) and later James Perkins, ‘The Gambler’, half-length, holding a hand of cards and a glass of wine | sold for £6,250
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Lot 110: A railway or steamer trunk 'first class orient express London- Paris -Istanbul' early 20th century | Sold for £16,250
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Lot 113: Hamish Mackie (B. 1973) Cheetah Head, bronze on a dark grey marble plinth | Sold For £16,250
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Lot 117: An impressive full-size plaster section of Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelatalate 19th / early 20th century | Sold for £10,000
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Lot 135: A resin cast of a dodo skeleton by a Modern Grand Tour | Sold for £33,750
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Lot 151: A 'Battersea table', by Naomi Tsai, Kai Wertel, Daniel Zielinski and Maximilian Zielinski, 2014 | Sold for £23,750
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Lot 152: The library red leather high back armchair, third quarter 20th century | Sold for £12,500
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Lot 174: An oak and parcel gilt scale model of the clock tower at the palace of Westminster, late 19th century and later | Sold for £20,000
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Lot 175: A 1:2 scale Aston Martin DBR1 'Airfix' tribute kit by Ant Anstead (B. 1979) and Evanta Motor Company, Hertfordshire | Sold for £50,000
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Lot 183: Fragmented crack coffee table, 2012 by based Upon Ltd (Established 2004) | Sold for £87,500
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Lot 186: The skull of a Triceratop, shell creek formation, Montana, from the Maastrichtian, late Cretaceous (68-65 mya) | Sold for £306,250
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Lot 241: A group of three preserved birds under glass domes, late 19th and 20th century | Sold for £11,875
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Lot 254: A 'Mandarin' resin and ostrich feather floor lamp, by a Modern Grand Tour | sold for £11,875
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Lot 320: 'Flying Giraffe' by James Perkins | Sold for £125,000
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Lot 338: A patinated bronze conch form wine cooler by a Modern Grand Tour | Sold for £6,000
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Lot 345: A patinated bronze wall cabinet, modern, with soane to the pediment | Sold for £9,375
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Lot 349: English School (early 20th century) and later the James Perkins Studio, Paradise Landscape, a unicorn among other animals in a wooded landscape, with later Aynhoe coat of arms | Sold for £52,500

Auction Details

Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour: Day 1 & Day 2

Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of A Modern Grand Tour: Day 3

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