Sale 9592
New York
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18 - 19 January 2001
Price realised
USD 7,638
Estimate
A PAIR OF CLASSICAL MAHOGANY KLISMOS SIDE CHAIRS New York City, 1805-1815 Each with a backscrolling rectangular tablet crest above a lyre-carved splat with brass strings flanked by reeded stiles over a trapezoidal seat frame with reeded front rail housing a conforming slip-seat, on molded klismos legs 32¼in. high (2)
Provenance
Israel Sack Inc., New York City
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Literature
Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 4, p. 1048.
Specialist Sarah Reynolds highlights the sumptuous work of the Pre-Raphaelites’ second and third generations
Specialist Camille de Foresta explains how these two large beasts were made some 1,000 years ago to accompany their Chinese owner into the afterlife