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Top Auction Houses by Jewellery Sales, 2024

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Top Auction Houses by Jewellery Sales, 2024.

Reported jewellery sales at the major auction houses, 2024

Data: 2024·retrieved 29 Jul 2026·last reviewed 11 Aug 2026

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Top Auction Houses by Jewellery Sales

Ranked by reported 2024 jewellery sales

2024 jewellery sales
  1. 01

    Christie's

    i
    $415.8Mn/a
  2. 02

    Sotheby's

    i
    $270Mn/a
  3. 03

    Phillips

    i
    $59M▲ 51%

Not rankedBonhams — jewellery total not disclosed for 2024

The question this dashboard was built to answer — which jewellery brands sell best at auction — cannot be answered from public data: the houses do not disclose whose pieces sold. Ranking the houses themselves is the closest honest substitute. Figures are jewellery-only auction sales (not the houses' total turnover), in US dollars as reported by Rapaport. Rapaport's most recent published jewellery auction review covers 2024; this page will be updated when the 2025 review appears.

Source: Rapaport, ‘A Solid Jewelry Auction Market for 2024’ (rapaport.com), retrieved 29 July 2026 — jewellery-only auction sales.

Reading the data

01 What's shown

The major auction houses ranked by reported 2024 jewellery-only auction sales, in US dollars.

02 What it shows

Christie's leads jewellery at $415.8M — roughly 1.5× Sotheby's. Phillips is the smallest of the three and the only one whose year-on-year growth Rapaport reported: up 51%.

03 How to read it

  • This dashboard was built to answer which jewellery brands sell best at auction — a question public data can't answer, because the houses don't disclose whose pieces sold. Ranking the houses themselves is the closest honest substitute. Figures are jewellery-only auction sales, not the houses' total turnover.
  • Figures are in US dollars, as reported by Rapaport. Other dashboards on this site are in euros.
  • Bonhams' 2024 jewellery total is not disclosed by Rapaport — shown unranked rather than estimated; year-on-year change is given only where Rapaport reported it (Phillips).
  • Rapaport's most recent published jewellery auction review covers 2024. This page will be updated when the 2025 review appears.

04 Sources

Primary
  • None — no house publishes a comparable cross-house jewellery-auction series; all three figures on this page come from Rapaport, not from the houses' own annual results.
Research & press
  • Rapaport, ‘A Solid Jewelry Auction Market for 2024’ (rapaport.com), retrieved 29 July 2026 — the single consistent cross-house series, and the source of all three values shown.

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