A huge thank you to all our readers. This website continues to go from strength to strength with regular readers from Ireland, the UK, the US, France, the rest of Europe and right around the world. According to Google’s Webmaster Tools the number of hits recorded by antiquesandartireland.com in the month to February 5 exceeded 1.3 million.
Online buying at auction is a global phenomenon which continues to grow. There were bidders from all continents at the record breaking Impressionist and Modern Art sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in London this week. It is not only art. Everything sells on the internet. eCommerce jewellery grew significantly at Christie’s worldwide in 2014 with over twice as many sales as 2013. Overall Christie’s sold $754.7 million dollars worth of jewellery in 2014, the highest annual result for jewellery at any auction house, with over 430 jewels sold online.
The graphic which illustrates our figures from January 6, 2015 to February 5 2015 is on the left. You can click on the image to enlarge it.