Masque Auctions

Hôtel des Ventes de Montpellier specializes in fine art and decorative arts, with recent results including a Pierre Soulages canvas that sold for 1,300,000 euros, a Masque de la société du Ngil Peuple Fang from Gabon at 4,200,000 euros, and a Camille Corot painting of two monks in Genoa at 150,000 euros. The house also handles estate inventories, appraisals, and collections, and its sale results span Chinese and Vietnamese porcelain, Lalique glass, and vintage cars such as an Alpine Berlinette 1300 from 1971 that sold for 53,000 euros.

Goldfield Auction, a Luxembourg- and Liège-based house, is preparing "The Collector's Eye – Art & Exceptional Objects," an online sale on 25 October 2026 that puts a Paul Hankar-attributed Art Nouveau fireplace with mahogany and precious-wood boiserie at its center. The catalogue also features a Chinese blue-and-white "Kraak" dish from the Wanli period, a Robinson & Sons convertible campaign day bed, a 75-piece Saint-Louis cut and gilded crystal service, and a gold coin and precious-metal group (lots 220 to 241).

Upcoming auctions include Drawings, Paintings, Old and Modern on Nov 19 at 14:30 in Lyon, a solidarity sale at the Recyclerie Dombes Val de Saône in Trévoux on Nov 26 at 17:00, and Jewellery, Watches and Fashion on Dec 3 at 14:30 in Lyon. The Trévoux sale is preceded by an exhibition from 14:00, and its condition reports will be issued only on the day of the sale.

Specializing in art auctions with a focus on German Expressionists, Informel, classical modernism, German Impressionists and Pop Art through to contemporary work, Auktionshaus Miltenberg has recent results including Alexander Koester's "Vier Enten am Teich" (43,050 euros with premium) and a Pablo Picasso terracotta head (2,000 euros). The house also buys and appraises jewelry, watches, gold coins and silver, and runs its art auctions through the online platform lot-tissimo, which it says gives it an international reach.

Forsythes' Auctions specializes in antiques, with a particular focus on early furniture, coverlets, quilts, and smalls. The house also features Asian art, including Chinese porcelain and Japanese woodblock prints.

Rennes Enchères specializes in auctions of silverware, featuring items from makers like Wallace and Ravinet d'Enfert. The house also offers art from Asia, historical souvenirs, and antique paintings.

Commissaire-priseur Dame Marteau Montpellier runs a furniture-focused weekly sale, cataloguing lots across sofas, armchairs, chairs, tables, sideboards, bookcases, consoles, chests of drawers, wardrobes, small furnishings and garden furniture. The house's current listing is a midweek sale of mobilier and design pieces, with more than seventy lots numbered across its catalogue pages. Buyers can place absentee bids or phone orders through the site, though the source offers no makers' names to single out.

Auctions fine art, Asian antiques, militaria, firearms, decorative arts, and historical collectibles.

DognyAuction lists departments including Silver, Asian Art, Cars, Paintings & Sculpture, Clocks & Watches, Instruments de musique, Jewellery, Rugs & Textiles, Wines & Spirits and Collectibles, with its most distinctive offering likely its Cars category alongside fine silver and clocks. The house runs live online sales and accepts phone bids, with written "safety bids" recommended as a backup for bidders who may be unreachable during an auction.