Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
CARPETS (lots 438 - 447)
Price realised
USD 9,775
Estimate
A LOUIS PHILIPPE AUBUSSON CARPET circa 1840 The ice blue round medallion centering a polychrome floral bouquet and laurel garland on a ton-sur-ton chestnut rosette field flanked by floral bouquet spandrels all within an olive floral vinery border Approximately 13ft. 10in. x 12ft. 2in. (422cm. x 371cm.)
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Pre-Lot Text
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‘