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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE ENID ANNENBERG HAUPT,
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS
(LOTS 47-48)
Enid Annenberg Haupt was the fourth of eight children of Triangle Publications founder Moses Annenberg. Her brother, Walter, founded TV Guide and Seventeen Magazine, where Mrs. Haupt spent 17 years as editor-in-chief. Throughout her life, Mrs. Haupt placed tremendous importance on beauty, both natural and man-made. She was an avid gardener and benefactor of countless horticultural institutions around the world, most notably the New York Botanical Gardens. She also cultivated a celebrated collection of Impressionist paintings, important jewels and 18th Century European Furniture. Throughout her lifetime Mrs. Haupt made significant contributions to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Zoological Society/Wildlife Conservation Society.
A PAIR OF PALE-GREEN PAINTED AND BRONZED THREE-LIGHT PEDESTALS
OF GEORGE III STYLE, 20TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF PALE-GREEN PAINTED AND BRONZED THREE-LIGHT PEDESTALS
OF GEORGE III STYLE, 20TH CENTURY
Each with a fluted circular socle issuing scrolled branches, on a square tapering fluted column with foliate-decorated pinched socle, the flutes filled with chandrelles, on a square base, lacking one patera
53 in. (135 cm.) high, excluding light fitment; 63½ in. (161 cm.) high, including light fitments; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) square (2)
OF GEORGE III STYLE, 20TH CENTURY
Each with a fluted circular socle issuing scrolled branches, on a square tapering fluted column with foliate-decorated pinched socle, the flutes filled with chandrelles, on a square base, lacking one patera
53 in. (135 cm.) high, excluding light fitment; 63½ in. (161 cm.) high, including light fitments; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) square (2)
Sale room notice
There are glass shades included in this lot.