Sale 1285
New York
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17 October 2003
Price realised
USD 16,730
Estimate
A GEORGE I INLAID WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT CHEST-ON-CHEST Circa 1725 The rectangular molded cornice above three short and three long graduated drawers, all with etched brasses, over a conforming base fitted with three further graduated drawers, the lowest centered by a concave marquetry star, on bracket feet, with paper label inscribed P/DICK95911/156, reveneering to feet 71in. (180cm.) high, 41in. (104cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep
Provenance
Jack Dick, Dunellen Hall, Greenwich, Connecticut, sold Sotheby Parke- Bernet, New York, 20 September 1975, lot 360.
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND H. WEILL (LOTS 135-136)
Offered in Hong Kong on 10 July, 21.10.63 is one of the largest works in Zao Wou-Ki’s explosive ‘Hurricane’ series — a creative peak in the artist’s career
By embracing materials for their own sake, the German artist Günther Förg broke thrilling new ground for abstraction