Sale 2090
New York
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22 April 2008
Price realised
USD 7,500
Estimate
A REGENCE WALNUT CANAPE CIRCA 1720 With a serpentine rocaille-carved crestrail, with winged sides and scrolling arm supports, covered in pink and green silk and cut velvet, with a loose seat cushion, with a similarly carved serpentine rocaille crestrail, on shell-headed cabriole legs, rear uprights and legs replaced
Provenance
with Dalva Brothers, New York.
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