Sale 1359
New York
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8 April 2004
Price realised
USD 23,900
Estimate
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY SETTEE CIRCA 1785 The moulded serpentine frame inset to the crest with an anthemion, upholstered throughout in a close-nailed woven horsehair, with padded seat on rosette-capped, water-leaf carved turned tapering legs with brass and leather casters, with ash cross supports 92in. (234cm.) wide
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (lots 277-284)
Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’
Islamic art specialist Romain Pingannaud on a 13th-century copy of a key compendium on astronomy and mathemetics