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In 2012 the Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong spent a month in Milan, painting portraits of models with food and drinks for an exhibition at the city’s Massimo De Carlo gallery. The God of War is one of these, its enigmatic title and the sitter’s expression hinting at tensions beneath the bright surface
 
Estimate: €20,000-30,000
until 6 May, Online
 
 
 
 
 
This silver wine cooler, made in the German town of Hanau around 1880, is designed on an aquatic theme. Mermaids form the handles, and depictions of male and female marine deities on chariots adorn both sides: one is the trident-wielding god Poseidon, the other his wife Amphitrite, queen of the sea
 
Estimate: €3,000-5,000
27 April, Paris
 
 
 
 
 
The zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix explored the interior of Brazil, and particularly the Amazon, from 1817 to 1820, on an expedition organised by the Bavarian government. This is one of a set of hand-coloured plates, in four folios, illustrating the turtles, frogs, shells, reptiles and snakes he encountered
 
Estimate: £6,000-9,000
until 28 April, Online
 
 
 
 
 
Charlotte Leimer has donated her 2019 mobile Untitled (Cloud) to a charity auction for Le Ciel Foundation. The work is part of a series the Swiss artist made by dancing with a length of steel wire to the point of exhaustion, then wrapping the resulting form in plaster-dipped thread to mummify the moment
 
Estimate: £3,000-4,000
until 27 April, Online
 
 
 
 
 
 
          
 
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Fausto Melotti in his studio in Milan (detail). Photo: Courtesy Fondazione Fausto Melotti // Jewellery designer Jessica McCormack. Photo: Casey Moore // Maya Lin, Ghost Forest, 2021. Courtesy Maya Lin and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Photograph by Maya Lin Studio // Doris Ammann photographed with Brice Marden, Elements I, 1981-1982 (detail). Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG