Christie's unveils 'Classic Week Highlights' including a sabre-toothed tiger skull

BGUK_3622267 - Christie’s Classic Week (30 June to 8 July) Classic Week brings together museum-quality works, important private collections and remarkable stories of art and history. The public pre-sale exhibitions are free and all are welcome. THE EXCEPTIONAL SALE: MASTERWORKS ACROSS CULTURES. 30th June - The skull of a Sabre-toothed tiger ( Columbia County, USA) eST £1,000,000 - £1,500,000 - An Egyptian limestone pair statue of the Royal acquaintances Nebefwy and Mes-Sat - Isaac Betts 'The Coronation, fine navy board model' Est £600,000 - £800,000 - Emily Bronte 'Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By Ellis Bell. – Agnes Grey. A Novel, by Acton Bell. London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.' Winston Churchill dispatch boxes £700,000 - £100,000 £10,000 - £15,000 £40,000 - £60,000 Est £400,000 - £600,000 OLD MASTERS EVENING SALE, 30 June Jan van Huysum - 'Fruit and flowers in a wicker basket', 1720s Est: £3,000,000-4,000,000 Jan van Huysum - 'Flowers in a terracotta vase', 1734 Est: £2,500,000-3,500,000 - Bernardo Bellotto 'The Bacino di San Marco from the Canale della Giudecca' Est: £4,000,000-6,000,000. Sir Thomas Lawrence 'The Duke of Wellington' Est: £8,000,000-12,000,000 - Swabian School 'The Holy Kinship with a donor portrait a Dominican nun of the noble Swabian family von Kaltenthal' Est £60,000 - £80,000 - Louis- Leopold Boilly'Thirty-five expressive heads ( (Réunion de 35 têtes diverses) Est £400,000 - £600,000 - John Melhuish Strudwick 'Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away,Thy dear eyes dream that Love will live for aye' Est £700,000 - £1,000,000 - Sir William Blake 'The Grave: Death's Door' Est £500,000 - £700,000 LINE OF VISION: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF STEPHEN ONGPIN FINE ART - 2 July - Joseph William Turner ' The Lauerzersee with the Ruins of Schwanau and the Mythen, Switzerland Est £400,000 - £600,000 - Henri Matisse 'Visage' Est £15,000 - £20,000 VALUABLE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING CARTOGRAPHY. 8 July - Albert Einstein's two autographed letters Est £100,000 - £120,000