The Rene Fribourg Collection Volumes I-VII Sotheby & Co 1963

Vol I

European Porcelain

[79] pp./ 67 lots

Vol II

Paintings

[80] pp./ lots 70-133

Vol III

Furniture and Works of Art: Part I

[157] pp./ lots 140-224

Vol IV

Gold Snuff Boxes

[71] pp./ lots 225-333

Vol V

French Faience and European Porcelain: Part 2

[121] pp./ lots 340-496

Vol VI

Drawings

[113] pp./ lots 500-614

Vol VII

Furniture and Works of Art: Part 2

[228] pp./ lots 620-817

Sotheby & Co

1963

10 3/4" x 8 1/4"

VG/ VG

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Dealers and private collectors paid a record sum of $506,660 for porcelain at the first of the long-awaited Rene Fribourg auctions.

The new total, which more than doubled the $240,800 paid in 1961 at a one-day porcelain sale, was set at Sotheby's auction house in just over an hour.

Today's sale represented only half the collection of rare porcelains acquired by Mr. Fribourg, a New Yorker who died last February leaving an estimated $3,000,000 worth of 18th-century French furniture and art.

The collection, which the Belgian-born grain merchant packed into his East 84th Street mansion, was so large and so valuable that Sotheby's decided to dispose of it at seven auctions. The first three are being held this week and the remainder, including the rest of the porcelain, will take place in October.