Sale 5687
London
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31 October 1996
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Price realised
GBP 3,680
Estimate
A Louis-Philippe ormolu centrepiece Surmounted by a shallow bowl with vine-cast underside, inset with a ring supporting six foliate-cast candle-branches, each with fluted and leaf-cast nozzle, supported on three Bacchic putti, each squeezing grapes into a cup and sat on a foliate scroll hung with a fruit garland, on stepped triform base, two candle-branches broken, two sconces lacking 23in. (58.5cm.) high
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Pre-Lot Text
As Christie’s offers 178 works from his personal collection, the illustrator of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory offers us a glimpse of his creative process
Christie’s is auctioning some of Thomas Chippendale's most iconic designs, 300 years since the birth of Britain’s most famous furniture maker