Sale 5686
London
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31 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 978
Estimate
A massive internally decorated glass dish By Andre Thuret, 1920s Free-form, with broad internal trail of aventurine inclusions 13½in. (34.2cm.) width engraved mark André Thuret
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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‘