Lot 9 · Old Masters Evening Sale
A jester: a grotesque head of a fool brandishing a wooden spoon | 《小丑：揮舞木匙的趣怪愚人頭像》
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- Estimate
- £40,000–£60,000 hammer ≈ $55,350–$83,025
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Masters Evening Sale, London · 7 July 2021
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4941829
- Record
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Quinten Massys, A jester: a grotesque head of a fool brandishing a wooden spoon | 《小丑：揮舞木匙的趣怪愚人頭像》. Sotheby's, 7 Jul 2021, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4941829.
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Quinten Massys, A jester: a grotesque head of a fool brandishing a wooden spoon | 《小丑：揮舞木匙的趣怪愚人頭像》. Sotheby's, 7 Jul 2021, lot 9. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4941829.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait of Prince William, later King William IV of Great Britain (1… | P.r.a. Benjamin West | £200,000–£300,000 | |
| A wooded estuary with a ferry and fishermen selling their catch | 《樹木… | Jan Brueghel The Elder | £300,000–£500,000 | |
| A pair of floral still lifes, in lapis and bronze vases on stone plin… | Juan De Arellano | £120,000–£180,000 | |
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| A view along a town street with figures | 《城巷人物景觀》 | Jacob Vrel | £200,000–£300,000 | |
| Les villageois à la pêche | 《垂釣的村民》 | François Boucher | £250,000–£350,000 |
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