A mosaic from Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle sold at auction for $363,000
- A mosaic originally from Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle sold for $363,000 at an auction in LA.
- The piece sold at Van Eaton Galleries' Rediscovering Disneyland auction on May 22 and 23.
- Other items auctioned during the sale included theme-park costumes, sheet music, and more.
A piece of Disney history was sold this weekend for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
On May 22 and 23, Van Eaton Galleries, an art gallery in Los Angeles, hosted an auction called Rediscovering Disneyland. More than 1,200 pieces from Disney parks around the world - like costumes, autographed sheet music, a loan agreement that belonged to Walt Disney, and more - were included in the sale.
Among all the memorabilia up for auction, a "Sleeping Beauty"-themed mosaic from Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, caught the eye of collectors. The mosaic ended up selling for $363,000, a representative for Van Eaton Galleries told Insider.
The buyer purchased the mosaic anonymously, the gallery representative told Insider, and therefore they could not be reached by Insider for comment.
Prior to the sale, Van Eaton Galleries released a catalog that detailed each item included in the auction, including the mosaic that was once in Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle.
The digital booklet details the "Sleeping Beauty" pastel artwork that shows Aurora and Prince Philip walking arm-in-arm underneath a flower arch. The catalog estimated that the piece would sell between $30,000 and $50,000.
According to the gallery's catalog, the mosaic was handcrafted for the Sleeping Beauty Castle courtyard in Disneyland, though it moved around Fantasyland until the section was renovated in 1983. It's made from tiles, which are infused into a "mesh wire backing" that previously served as "an original section" of the castle's walls, according to the gallery.
Other items sold at the recent auction included a dinner plate from the members-only Club 33 for $12,300, a Haunted Mansion Imagineering map for $17,220, and a Disneyland Fantasy bench for $22,140.
The gallery hosted the Walt Disney: The Man, the Studio, and the Parks auction on the creator's birthday month in December 2020, offering more than 800 artifacts from his life.
The auction house also held the Disneyland: The First 65 Years sale in August of last year. More than 1,000 Disney-themed items were sold at the time, including old posters, mailboxes, and more.