Sale 6913
London, South Kensington
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13 July 1995
Price realised
GBP 450
Estimate
A Naples-style casket rectangular, with hinged cover and metal mounts, moulded in relief with Classical and Bacchic scenes of figures disporting themselves at banquets, dancing, hunting and bathing within foliate-moulded and gilt borders, enriched in colours and gilt -- 10in. (25.4cm.) wide, 19th century
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Both in Belle Epoque Paris and Berlin between the wars, Jeanne Mammen documented European café society from a woman’s perspective
Islamic Art specialist Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam on a magnificent garment that would have been worn by a member of the royal inner circle