A CARVED, PAINTED, POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT SPREADWING EAGLE WALL PLAQUE

Recommended features

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    The New York City-based interior designer selects his favourite pieces from the Rockefeller Collection

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  • Property from the Gail-Oxford Collection

    Thomas H. Oxford (1927-2008) and Victor Gail (1929-2014) began their life-long commitment to American decorative arts in 1967 when they purchased a handsome high chest-of-drawers made in Salem, Massachusetts in the mid eighteenth century.

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  • I bought it at Christie’s

    Celebrity estate agent Josh Flagg on how he acquired a gilt mirror and other treasures formerly owned by Betsy Bloomingdale

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  • Collecting Guide: Key periods of American furniture

    Our guide to the forms, ornamentations and carving styles, illustrated with lots from our Important American Furniture  sale on 19 January 

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  • Collecting Guide: Lalique

    Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May

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  • A leap into space: Malevich’s Suprematist Composition

    Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art