# Motonobu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T11:44:37.969Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 72
- Lots with prices: 45
- First auction date: 2003-11-15
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-27
- Median realised price: $240
- Price range: $20 to $17,640

## Market Takeaway
Motonobu has 72 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $240. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 8 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($240\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($110 to $480\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 91.1% (41 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 4.4% (2 sales)
- $10,000\+: 4.4% (2 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 8
- Previous 12 months sales: 9
- Recent 12 months median: $140
- Previous 12 months median: $440
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-27
- Days since latest sale: 154
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Kiefer Buch\- und Kunstauktionen: 10 lots
- Bubb \> Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts: 7 lots
- Bonhams: 4 lots
- Bassenge Auctions: 3 lots
- Hindman: 3 lots
- Signens Kunstauktionen: 3 lots
- Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques: 2 lots
- Barry S. Slosberg Inc: 2 lots
- Carlo Bonte Auctions: 2 lots
- Dominic Winter Auctions: 2 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-27 | Eisen \(1790\-1848\). \(Bijin lifting the hem of her kimono\). | Bubb \> Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts | €140 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-eisen-1790-1848-bijin-lifting-the-hem-of-her-kimono-5256-c-bfd2ad3c77
2. 2025-02-07 | A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI GILT WALNUT AND BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY SEAT FURNITURE. BY H | Christie's | $17,640
3. 2024-10-20 | SYDNEY MASONIC INTEREST: Antique sterling silver snuff box with gilt washed interior, engraved "PRESENTED TO Br. Thomas Aspinwall \[sic\], late Secretary of the Lodge of Australia \[5\]48? \[or 348?\] at a Dinner given to him on the 7th of April 1845 by h | Leski Auctions Pty Ltd | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-sydney-masonic-interest-antique-sterling-silver-snuff-box-with-gilt-washed-interior-engraved-presented-to-br-thomas-aspinwall-sic-late-secretary-of-the-lodge-of-australia-5-48-or-348-at-a-dinner-given-to-him-on-the-7th-of-april-1845-by-h-5-c-7034be9aa9
4. 2022-06-03 | Eisen, Charles: Bacchanal | Bassenge Auctions | €4,800
5. 2021-10-15 | EISEN, CHARLES\-DOMINIQUE\-JOSEPH. 1720\-1778. DORAT, CLAUDE\-JOSEPH. 1734\-1780. Les baisers, précédés du mois de Mai. The Hague and Paris: Lambert and Delalain, 1770. | Bonhams | N/A
6. 2021-05-05 | H/M SILVER CHALICE MADE IN 1831 BY JOHN EDWARDS PERRY WITH HAND EMBOSSED BOVINE FARM SCENES, WEIGHT 335G AND 24CM TALL APPROX | Cadmore Auctions | N/A
7. 2018-12-05 | EISEN, CHARLES\-DOMINIQUE\-JOSEPH. 1720\-1778; and CHARLES\-LOUIS DE SECONDAT MONTESQUIEU, BARON DE. 1689\-1755. Le Temple de Gnide. Paris: Didot jeune, 1794. | Bonhams | $3,750
8. 2018-11-28 | Japanese Meiji Era Samurai Helmet Box by MOTONOBU | Hill Auction Gallery | $11,000
9. 2018-06-11 | An original watercolour of an RAF Lancaster bomber flying over Lincoln by H | Wallis & Wallis | £300
10. 2015-01-17 | Thomas Sutherland, British c.1785\-1820\- ''Newmarket'', ''Ipswich'', ''Ascot'' and ''Epsom'', after H | Roseberys | £240
11. 2009-04-23 | Eisen, Charles: Recueil De Petits Sujets & Culs de Lampe | Bassenge Auctions | €600
12. 2009-03-28 | Eisen, Charles Joseph Dominique Sechs | Kunstauktionshaus Schlosser | N/A
13. 2025-11-20 | George V silver cased grape shears, by H | Kinghams Auctioneers | £90
14. 2025-06-27 | Eisen, Keisai | Kiefer Buch\- und Kunstauktionen | N/A
15. 2025-06-27 | Eisen, Keisai | Kiefer Buch\- und Kunstauktionen | €600
16. 2025-06-17 | H\(erman\) Giesen \- Watercolor | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | $40 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-h-erman-giesen-watercolor-8369-c-f0c4166980
17. 2025-06-10 | Eisen, Keisai | Nagel Auction | €110
18. 2025-06-10 | Eisen, Keisai | Nagel Auction | €160
19. 2025-05-07 | Eisen, Keisai | Kiefer Buch\- und Kunstauktionen | €180
20. 2025-03-11 | H\(enry\) Smyth \- Landscape Painting | Barry S. Slosberg Inc | $450 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-h-enry-smyth-landscape-painting-1398-c-3fd4df7a5a
21. 2025-02-16 | Eisen, Keisai | Zisska & Lacher | €300
22. 2024-11-30 | Eisen, Keisai, 1790\-1848, Oban, ca. 1820 | Signens Kunstauktionen | €100
23. 2024-11-21 | Eisen \(1790\-1848\). \(Courtesan looking into a room\). | Bubb \> Kuyper: Auctioneers of Books, Fine Arts & Manuscripts | €250
24. 2024-11-13 | H\(EUSSEN\), H. v. Kerkelijke historie en outheden der Zeven Vereen. Provincien | Burgersdijk & Niermans | €440

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