Sale 1500
New York
|
15 April 2005
Price realised
USD 10,800
Estimate
A GEORGE I WALNUT KNEEHOLE DESK CIRCA 1720 The rectangular crossbanded top above a long frieze drawer and door, flanked by two banks of three drawers, on bracket feet 29 in. (74 cm.) high, 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide, 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER SAUNDERSON (LOTS 185-207)
The library of the novelist included a translation by a brilliant young mathematician that foresaw the age of computing
Offered in the ONE sale on 10 July in New York, Annie epitomises the genre that made the artist one of the most celebrated of his generation