Just as in its live auction business, Christie's will sell only property that it takes in on consignment and evaluates itself.
Many of the objects now in his museum, having escaped wholesale consignment to the junkyard as 20th-century Turkey rushed to emulate Europe and America, owe their survival to eccentrics Pamuk recalls as "ill-tempered, jealous and despondent," many of them estranged from their families on account of the things they amassed.
Saddam's lawyer, Ramsey Clark, was unceremoniously ejected from the court after the verdict, in a symbolic consignment of himself to his fringe causes of the defence of Milosevic's xenophobic aggression and Saddam's despotism.
In 1995, Mr. Petrovsky discovered a seven-piece suite of furniture in a consignment shop in New Canaan, Conn.
Asian hornets were first spotted in south-west France in 2004, after apparently stowing away in a consignment of pottery which had arrived in Bordeaux from China.
Two earthenware bowls from Afghanistan, which arrived unsolicited in a consignment from a carpet-seller, sit formally on the table and contain lemons.
Hawaii is a transient place, he said, which is good for people in the consignment business: whenever someone moves, inventory swells.
It was first confirmed in the UK in February 2012, when it was found in a consignment of infected trees sent from a nursery in the Netherlands to a nursery in Buckinghamshire, England.
For four days a week between 2001 and 2006, she wore the same Margiela dress she had found in a consignment shop, until it was full of holes, because it felt "powerful and right".
