{"id":3169,"date":"2008-04-10T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/islamic-art-sets-record-at-sothebys\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:54:04","slug":"islamic-art-sets-record-at-sothebys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/10\/islamic-art-sets-record-at-sothebys\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Art sets record at Sotheby\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"339\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/IslamicArtSothebys232x432.jpg\"\/>A KEY to the Ka\u2019ba in Mecca, Islam\u2019s most holiest site, sold for \u00a39.2 million as part of an auction of Islamic Art that broke records at London\u2019s Sotheby\u2019s yesterday.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 800-year-old 12th-century iron key, thought to be the second-earliest of only 58 examples, sold at more than 18 times its estimate of \u00a3500,000, on a day of frantic bidding at Sotheby\u2019s. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The auction, which Sotheby\u2019s said was \u201cmost important\u201d Islamic sale it had ever staged, generated more than \u00a321.5 million in sales as more than 400 items were sold. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A leaf from a 7th-century copy of the Koran on vellum, probably from Medina, took \u00a32.4 million against an estimate of \u00a3100,000-\u00a3150,000, setting a new world auction record for any Islamic manuscript.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Edward Gibbs, Senior Director and Head of Sotheby\u2019s Islamic Art department said the auction house was \u201cthrilled\u201d with the outcome of the sale. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe saleroom was completely packed and we are absolutely thrilled with the results of today\u2019s auction, which is by far Sotheby\u2019s most successful in this category\u201d, he said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cRemarkably, the sale realised more than the Islamic department\u2019s annual total in 2007, demonstrating beyond doubt the burgeoning and international demand for Islamic Art. Strong prices were achieved for top quality, rare objects across all the periods and categories represented, most notably for the Ka\u2019ba key which set the new world auction record for an Islamic Work of Art.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A KEY to the Ka\u2019ba in Mecca, Islam\u2019s most holiest site, sold for \u00a39.2 million as part of an auction of Islamic Art that broke records at London\u2019s Sotheby\u2019s yesterday. &#13; The 800-year-old 12th-century iron key, thought to be the second-earliest of only 58 examples, sold at more than 18 times its estimate of \u00a3500,000, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}