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20TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH PROVINCIAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED HALL BENCH
20TH CENTURY
With double-panelled back with painted inscription L'homme est jalouse du passé...La Femme est jalouse l'avenir, over scrolled arms and a seat with painted inscription Peux de gens save être vieux, opening to reveal a well
27½in. (70cm.) long
20TH CENTURY
With double-panelled back with painted inscription L'homme est jalouse du passé...La Femme est jalouse l'avenir, over scrolled arms and a seat with painted inscription Peux de gens save être vieux, opening to reveal a well
27½in. (70cm.) long
Special notice
Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.
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Please note that the correct description should read:
AN AMERICAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED HALL BENCH
The decoration on this bench is attributed to Peter Hunt. Doris Duke patronized this artist who was working in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1940s.
AN AMERICAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED HALL BENCH
The decoration on this bench is attributed to Peter Hunt. Doris Duke patronized this artist who was working in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1940s.