Sale 6072
London
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12 February 1999
Price realised
GBP 1,495
Estimate
A LENGTH OF CRIMSON SATIN LAMPAS Late 18th Century Woven in ivory silks with fruit and flowers on a platter, bordered with scrollwork, urns and birds, interspersed with a medallion containing a lyre bordered with a foliate garland and Roman style staves, slight wear 21 in. x 80 in. (53 cm. x 203 cm.); and two matching fragments See Wardrobe II
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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‘