Overview
- An oil painting’s overpainted original frame and a patched canvas led expert Bianca Berding to cut its estimate to €200–€300 from about €600 if perfect.
- Despite the reduced appraisal, dealer Elke Velten-Tönnies met the seller’s target and paid €500 after opening at €470.
- Dr. Friederike Werner identified manufacturing glaze faults on a circa-1900 Zsolnay vase but still valued it at €1,800–€2,000, and Wolfgang Pauritsch bought it for €1,400.
- A bidding mix-up saw Susanne Steiger’s call of “900, 1000” misheard as €900,000 on a historicist enamel ring valued at €450; she ultimately won it for €1,100.
- Dealer David Suppes paid €1,500 for a patinated Peter Steyer bronze featured in a recent “Lieblingsstücke” episode and later described it as a favorite he keeps in his shop.