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Lot 170 · Maritime Art

Seals basking on pancake ice

Herbert George Ponting

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Estimate
£3,500–£5,000 hammer ≈ $5,637–$8,053
Result
Performance
Sale
Christie's — Maritime Art, London (South Kensington) · 29 April 1999
Record ID
TB-2026-6561960
Record
first seen 29 Jul 2026 · updated 29 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Herbert George Ponting, Seals basking on pancake ice. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 170. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561960.

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Herbert George Ponting, Seals basking on pancake ice. Christie's, 29 Apr 1999, lot 170. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6561960.

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From the same sale Maritime Art · Apr 1999

LotArtistEstimateResult
Warships and other shipping in a thunderstorm François-étienne Musin £3,000–£5,000
H.M.S. Dreadnought , the Seamen's Hospital ship, moored in the Thames… William Collingwood Smith, Rws £1,000–£1,500
Shipping in the Pool of London Daniel Turner £700–£1,000
The Colombian barquentine Zelia from Riohacha, making her numbers off… William Howard Yorke £3,000–£5,000
Captain James Cook (1728-79) Cook, James. 1728-1779. £1,200–£1,800
An English galliot close in to the shore with an English flagship fir… After Willem van de Velde II £1,000–£1,500

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