Sale 6072
London
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12 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 25,300
Estimate
A FRENCH FINELY EMBROIDERED NEEDLEWORK PICTURE Circa 1700 Worked in coloured wools and silks with metal thread highlights with the Four Parts of the World, Neptune, personifying water, and Tritons in the centre, Nereids below, framed, very slight damage and restorations 28 in. x 34 in. (73 cm. x 87 cm.)
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The designer and decorator shows us around his Santa Monica HQ, and enthuses over the forthcoming Rooms as Portraits auctions in London and New York
Chinese Works of Art specialist Olivia Hamilton reckons this pair of superb sculptures — around 1,300 years old — are ‘the finest I've seen come up for sale‘