Sculptures and art from a Scottish castle sold by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association (SYHA) have sold for more than £1m.
Sotheby's achieved its highest ever total for a sale of 19th & 20th Century Sculpture with a total of £2,309,064 and the Carbisdale Castle Collection was a key part of the sale.
The Victorian marble sculptures from The Carbisdale Castle Collection that had been off the market for over a century.
Offered for sale by the Scottish Youth Hostels Association (SYHA), the who own the castle in Sutherland, the sculptures were all sold and together with a group of Italian and Scottish nineteenth-century paintings.
The sale of the collection brought an overall total of £1,003,939.
The sculptures took nine of the top 10 prices achieved and established a number of artist auction records.
The most expensive was The Lion in Love by Guillaume Geefs, which sold for £131,000 to a European private collector.
Andromeda by Pasquale Romanelli sold for £125,000 to an Asian private collector.
Cupid in Repose by Johann Christian Lotsch sold for £188,750 to a UK based private collector.
Erik Bijzet, head of auction sales, European sculpture and works of art at the auction house, said: "The sculptures from the Carbisdale Castle collection, comprising the first 15 lots in the sale, were 100% sold and together with the group of Italian and Scottish 19th cenutry paintings, the collection brought an overall total of £1,003,939.
"Life size marbles continue to appeal to collectors around the world."
The Scottish Youth Hostels Association (SYHA) shut Carbisdale Castle in Sutherland four years ago because of rising repair costs.
A stately home, it was known as Castle of Spite because of the part it played in a family feud and is also said to be haunted.
The proceeds of the sale will be used to sustain SYHA's youth hostel network.
The castle, which overlooks the Kyle of Sutherland, was shut as a hostel after suffering frost damage.
Historic Scotland lists the castle and its entrance gates as category B.
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