Sale 7412
London
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5 July 2007
Price realised
GBP 6,000
Estimate
A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES LATE 18TH CENTURY Each with a curved door inlaid with a musical and martial trophy between foliage angles, above a shaped apron, on foliate sabots, the back of one inscribed in pencil 'Back ball Room', the other inscribed 'Front Ball Room' and in chalk '615 JS NO KEY', with Christie's Clore sale label, lacking marble tops 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) wide; 10¾ in. (27.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
G. A. F. Cavendish-Bentinck, Esq., 1891. The late Sir Charles Clore, Christie's, Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 40 (FF. 75,000).
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