DALLAS, TX.- Multiple bidders pushed the final price for After Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray Cossack Herding Horses, circa 1920 to $81,250 – five times its pre-auction estimate – to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction Sept. 21-23 in Dallas. The final total for the auction was $1,743,525.

"This auction offered a wide variety of artwork for collectors of all tastes,” Heritage Auctions Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon said. "Having a range of lots that includes Russian bronzes to an elaborate grand piano to an array of sculptures and paintings helped us expand our reach to collectors with a broad scope of artistic interests.”

Multiple collectors bid on a Rare John Broadwood & Sons Amboyna and Giltwood Grand Piano, circa 1845 from a distinguished estate in Dallas, Texas, before it closed at $27,500. Records show the instrument, with applied carved gilt wood ornaments and three double scrolled carved gilt wood legs crowned with winged spiral, above the keyboard a cartouche inscribed "JOHN BROADWOOD & SONS, London.”

A 14K Vari-Color Gold, Silver, Diamond, Guilloche Enamel, and Cabochon-Mounted Egg Form Clock in the Manner of Fabergé, late 20th century more than tripled its high pre-auction estimate when it drew a final sale price of $21,250, while South African artist Keith Savel Alexander’s Agama oil on canvas realized $20,000.

Prominent Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí’s Nobility of Time, 1984 elicited bids from more than a dozen collectors before selling for more than double its low pre-auction estimate at $18,750. Inscribed "Dali / 226/350” and bearing foundry marks: "c JEMELTON 1984; CERA PERSA - PERSEO S.A, MENDRISIO,” the bronze with brown and greenish patina was conceived in 1977 and first cast in 1984.

Another work drawing bids from multiple collectors was Margaret Keane Prop Director , which more than tripled its high pre-auction estimate when it closed at $18,750.

The Gentleman Collector session began the auction with more than 200 lots that totaled nearly $440,000. In addition to the Herding Horses bronze that led the auction and the Gentleman Collector session of the auction. Additional highlights included a Spanish Colonial Painted, Gilt, and Iron-Mounted Walnut Vargueño on Taquillón Base with Fitted Interior, late 17th-18th century, which sold for $10,625, and a pair of French CIJ Alfa Romeo model Grand Prix cars; one brought $5,500, and the other realized $4,750.

Other top lots included, but were not limited to:

· A Chinese Carved Coral Figure on Carved Wooden Stand $18,750

· A Pair of Marble and Onyx Columnar Pedestals with Inset Painted Porcelain Plaques and Champlevé Enamel and Gilt Bronze Mounts, France, late 19th century $17,500

· A Large Meissen Schneeballen Polychromed and Gilt Porcelain Vase and Cover with Avian Motif, Meissen, Germany, late 19th century $15,000

· A Three-Piece French Orientalist Partial Gilt Marble, Slate, and Bronze Clock Garniture in the Moorish Taste, late 19th century $13,750