Estuary Auctions

Antique and Fine Art Auction Sale

Upcoming Estuary Auction: November 1-2, 2013 at Mina Al Salam Hotel, Dubai.

Estuary Auctions is a licensed auction house with extensive experience in holding and managing Public and Private bidding auctions. With head offices in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Estuary Auctions specialize in management, investment and professional appraisals.

Estuary Auctions are held publicly with extensive marketing at a national and international level, or privately by personal invitation at ones request and instruction. The auction house also help clients invest securely by providing professional guidance and advice on appreciating collectibles or by sourcing antique, fine art and/or collectible items that are of particular interest at a strictly confidential level.

Estuary Auctions and investors have built awareness within the Antique and Fine Art market by focusing on this sector as a secure source of investment during fluctuating economic times. Historically, the Antique and Fine Art market flourishes and appreciates through economic booms as well as recessions and in the past three years alone, some fine and unique pieces have seen their value multiply.

This November 1-2, 2013 Estuary Auctions will be holding an exhibition at the Mina Al Salam Hotel in Dubai. The Collection will consist of international treasures that include Sevres style, Victorian and early 20th century furniture; 19th century Ottoman, Persian, and Iraqi silver; 19th century opaline and Bohemian glassware, fine antique Persian rugs and carpets, 19th-20th century European Orientalist bronze and paintings, Middle East contemporary and Modern art, antique amber and jewellery; and 18th, 19th, and 20th century decorative items.

The collection will specifically include the following coverage highlights:

Dia Al Azzawi's (Baghdad, Iraq, 1939), oil on canvas, signed 1992.

Dia Azzawi Biography
1939 Born in Baghdad, Iraq
110-90cm

Azzawi graduated in archaeology from the Baghdad University in 1962, and in fine arts from the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad in 1964. In 1969 he formed the art group 'New Vision' with some of his contemporaries; among them Rafa al- Nasiri, Mohammed Muhriddin, Ismail Fattah, Hachem al-Samarchi and Saleh al-Jumaie. He later joined the 'One Dimension' group started by Shakir Hassan al-Said but remained close to 'New Visions' until 1972.

He has exhibited extensively in the Middle East, North Africa, the US, India, Brazil and Europe, including a retrospective exhibition ‘Dia Azzawi' at the Institute of the Arab World, Paris in 2002. He has received several awards, among them first prizes at the International Summer Academy, Salzburg, Austria in 1975 and at the First Arab Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tunis in 1981. He also won the Jury Prize at the International Cairo Biennial in 1992. Azzawi moved to London in 1976 where he worked as an art consultant at the Iraqi Cultural Centre between 1977 and 1980.

Jaber Alwan (Baghdad, Iraq, 1948), Oil on Canvas, Signed, Dim: 167 x 167cm

Jaber Alwan Biography
1948 Born in Babylon, Iraq

Alwan graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad in 1970.

In 1975 he gained a diploma degree in Sculpture from the Rome Academy of Fine Art. Ten years later the Municipality of Rome awarded him the prize of Best Artist, the first foreigner to receive this prize.

His works are on permanent display in the Museums of Modern Art of Baghdad, Damascus, Qatar and Kuwait, the Opera House of Culture in Cairo, as well as the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, the Dei Diameni Palace, Ferrara, and the Academy Museum, Ravenna; and part of private collections in many cities in Europe, Russia, Japan and Chile.

Russian Samovar consisting of samovar, tray and chimney

A rare and large Russian Samovar consisting of samovar, tray and chimney made by the most famous silver smith in the Tsar period PAVEL AKIMOVE OVCHINNIKOV with ivory handles marked P.OVCHINNIKOV and the imperial warrant of Moscow dated 1875.

Silver Tray made by Ivan Khlebnikov

(Cyrillic mark of Ivan Khlebnikov with the Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1877. )
Ivan Khlebnikov - One of the most celebrated and important silver smith of the imperial Russian Tsar period. The tray was commissioned and specially made for a Russian Nobel family

The Nine Dragons Carpet late 17th/Early 18th Century

A very important carpet of Dragon designs. Woven from gilted silver thread and silk on cotton with a calligraphy referencing the carpet as made especially for the Forbidden City in Beijing. Brown, beige and blue colors. The Forbidden City was the Chinese Imperial Palace from the Ming Dynasty to end of Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China and now houses the Palace Museum. Built in 1406 – 1420. Approx. size 277 x 357cm

The suspended Odes (Mu'allaqat), Imru Al Qais

Dia Al Azzawi (Baghdad, Iraq, 1939)
Dated 1978 No.21/60
Dim 105 x 72 cm

The suspended Odes (Mu'allaqat), Imru Al Qais
(the details highlighted in red)

The Famed Artist Dia Azzawi has transformed the written poetry of Imru Al Qais Ode from a literature into a highly realistic graphic artwork that has helped the eye of the observer visualize the written form into a new dimension.