Lot 212
An Attic black-glazed neck amphora
Circa 480 BC
Provenance: private collection, Lausanne, acquired before 1970.
Estimate£6,000 – 8,000
A complete page for an auction house, museum or maison, built from the Neoclassical kit: arch hero, lots on plinth lines, a curtain-parting feature, an engraved colonnade of results and a pediment footer.
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Vellacott & Rhys · Est. 1831
The autumn sale: one hundred and twelve lots, from a Roman marble head to a Dutch still life. On view from 9 October.
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Tuesday 14 October · 11 am
A selection from the catalogue. Every lot is on view in the rooms from 9 October, and condition reports are available on request.
All 112 lotsBidding
Register once, with photographic identification and proof of address, and bid however suits you. Registration for this sale closes at 6 pm on 13 October.
Register to bidCharged per lot on the hammer price, plus VAT where it applies.
Read the terms of saleOld Master Paintings
Kept by one family for four generations, it comes to the room in its original frame, with the provenance complete.
Lot 38
Still life with a marble urn and a bronze ewer
Oil on canvas, 92 × 128 cm. Painted in Antwerp in the 1650s and bought by the present owner's great-grandfather in 1911, it has not been exhibited since. Estimate on request.
Read the catalogue noteThe Record
They catalogue as scholars and sell as if every lot were the only one. It is the rarest pairing in the trade.
Autumn season
£41.2m
Hammer total, three sales
Sold by value
96%
Across 312 lots
“Quietly, the most exacting catalogue in London.”
“A room that still knows how to be patient.”
Figures include buyer's premium.
Departments
Tell us about the piece and a specialist in the department will reply with an opinion on its value at auction.
Visit the rooms
Fourteen Bury Walk, London
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import type { FormEvent, RefObject } from "react";
/**
* HeritageHouseTemplate — a complete page for an auction house, museum or
* maison, assembled from the Neoclassical kit.
*
* In order: a header with the house's insignia in a gold roundel and the
* sections centred in spaced capitals (a Didone menu sheet on phones); a
* hero under a segmental arch drawn in one gold hairline that catches the
* light under the pointer; a sale's highlights as objects standing on
* plinth lines with catalogue captions; how to register and bid, with the
* buyer's premium set out as a table; one feature behind reeded panels that
* part as you scroll; the season's record set as a colonnade, its two
* figures engraved stroke by stroke, with a link to past results; the
* departments as a ruled index naming each specialist; a charcoal band with
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}A heritage page has to feel unhurried and certain, and it is judged in the first screen. This template opens under a segmental arch drawn in one gold hairline, with the sale's dates set either side like an architect's notes, and a glint that follows the pointer along the gold. Below it the sale's highlights stand on plinth lines; the ways to bid are set out with the buyer's premium as a table; one feature waits behind reeded panels that part as the reader scrolls; the season's record is a colonnade whose figures are engraved stroke by stroke; the departments run as a ruled index naming each specialist; and a charcoal band carries the visiting hours and a valuation request that takes photographs, before a footer under a shallow pediment. The header, hero, record and footer are symmetric; everything between runs a catalogue grid. Every claim, from the figures and rates to the lots, quotations and specialists, comes from one typed content object marked as placeholder, replaced in one place. It scrolls with the page, or inside its own box.
Curator’s note
Part of the Neoclassical kit, drop 3, phase 9: the page template. Pro because it composes the whole kit into one page. Not featured: the hero is the drop's only featured entry. Its content is one typed object, HOUSE_DEMO, marked as placeholder for a fictional house.
Matched on shared tags and category — the entries most likely to be used alongside this one.
A centred Didone headline under a segmental arch drawn in one gold hairline: it rises from both bases, meets at a keystone, and catches a raking light under the pointer.
A heritage button in spaced Didone capitals: on hover a gold hairline engraves itself under the label from the centre out. No fill, no scale, no spring.
An object standing on one gold plinth line with a catalogue caption: lot number, Didone title, date, provenance and estimate. The line draws out on hover.