Sale 5698
London
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14 November 1996
Price realised
GBP 8,625
Estimate
A PAIR OF BRONZE AND ORMOLU CHIMERAE THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS Second half 19th Century Each with a climbing chimerae holding a foliage-decorated branch in its mouth, with three foliate drip-pans and nozzles, drilled for electricity 21in. (53cm.) high (2)
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 143-160)
Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’
Islamic art specialist Romain Pingannaud on a 13th-century copy of a key compendium on astronomy and mathemetics