Auction - Season 2
Season 2
Episodes
Episode 1
Series exploring some of the most intriguing and pricey pieces to pass through the world's greatest auction houses. A snuff box made from timber from the HMS Victory is sold in London.
Episode 2
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's chaise longue 'on skis' attracts big bidders in Paris while, in London, a Warhol portrait of Debbie Harry and an intriguing sketch of the Queen go on sale.
Episode 3
An Edinburgh auction house tries to sell a Mackintosh table that's been stuck in a garden for 20 years. In New York, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Anthony and Cleopatra goes on sale.
Episode 4
A Wiltshire auction house packs out for a jade teapot made during the Qianlong dynasty that's expected to fetch £300,000. Meanwhile, an unusual Edward Seago is offered in London.
Episode 5
Al Capone's revolver comes up for grabs in London. Meanwhile, the world's biggest jewellery box goes on sale. Made for the Exposition Universelle, it could fetch half a million pounds.
Episode 6
A once-in-a-lifetime work goes on sale - a sketch by Michelangelo of a painting that never was. And an auction of pieces from the great houses of Europe offers a million-pound chandelier.
Episode 7
Promoted as the greatest collection of 20th-century British art ever to come to the market, over 100 paintings and sculptures assembled by Wilfrid Evill goes on sale in London.
Episode 8
A painting from Monet's popular series goes on sale in New York. In London, a sculpture of Berenice carved by Ambrogio Borghi from a single block of marble could fetch up to £400,000.
Episode 9
In London, author and amateur auctioneer Jeffrey Archer sells the watch used to clock Roger Bannister's four-minute mile and 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's famous black Asprey bag.
Episode 10
A London auction asks for £20million for George Stubbs' Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath and an emerald and diamond tiara goes on sale in Geneva with a staggering estimate of $10million.
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