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The German artist Karin Kneffel is known in part for her hyperrealistic approach to the still life, with oil paintings such as Untitled (Cherries), from 2007, taking on the quality of high-resolution photographs. She often subverts that realism by adding fantastical elements, but here the magnified fruit fills the frame

Estimate: £20,000-30,000
9 March, London






This cobalt glass bowl is a 1998 work by the pioneering New Zealand artist Ann Robinson. Having become familiar with the ‘lost-wax’ process of casting bronze sculptures at art school in the late 1960s, she spent years developing and perfecting its use in the creation of glass objects, eventually becoming a world authority on the subject

Estimate: $5,000-7,000
until 27 February, Online






Born in Shanghai in 1924, Irene Chou studied economics and worked as a journalist before beginning to train as a painter at the age of 30. Vortex combines her knowledge of traditional Chinese ink painting with her interest in abstraction, bringing in elements often seen in her work: floating spheres, dizzying spaces and calligraphic whirls

Estimate: HK$35,000-45,000
until 6 March, Online






From the globe-carrying Atlas on top, flanked by winged horses, to the pair of workers striking a bell with hammers below, this carved wooden ‘cuckoo’ clock is packed with life. Other figures carry a scythe and an hourglass, and owls are perched here and there, while lettering on the main dial spells out: ‘Time is flying’

Estimate: $4,000-8,000
1 March, New York

 

Love the blue bowl... and the clock.

 

Yes, clock!

 

The clock is wonderful. It looks like folk art, yet it has references to classic clock and bell figures.