BOSTON — Live from Doyle’s new Boston location on December 12, the firm’s Property from a Commonwealth Avenue Mansion: The Estate of Anthony J. Sinskey sale featured 281 lots from the single-owner collection. Sinskey, ScD, was a “renowned MIT professor and pioneering figure in metabolic engineering, biotechnology and biomanufacturing.” The top price of the sale — $14,630, with premium — went to a French sterling silver tea and coffee service by Charles-Nicolas Odiot. Manufactured in Paris circa 1840, the set comprised a kettle on stand, coffee pot, teapot, sugar and cream jug and had previously been sold at an October 19, 2001, auction at Christie’s, New York. Additional highlights from the sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.
