CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — On April 10, CRN Auctions sold a single owner collection of Renaissance period art, both ecclesiastical and secular. It included furniture, iron, bronze, marble carvings and more. Two Sixteenth Century Flemish paintings, one of the Madonna and child, and the other of St James (shown here), led the day, bringing a combined $72,000; $21,600 and $50,400, respectively. An Italian Renaissance relief carved marble of the Virgin and Child, perhaps once in the collection of Salvatore Dali, realized $27,600. There were numerous carved bone caskets, varguenos, Spanish colonial silver, early carved figures of saints, tapestries, carpets, iron and bronze objects, Limoges enamels from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, and much more.
Prices quoted include the buyer’s premium; a full report will follow.