Sale 6639
London
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14 November 2002
Price realised
GBP 3,585
Estimate
A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND BRONZE PATINATED FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA Each with a winged putto holding aloft a cornucopia issuing one central and four out-scrolling candlearms, above a stiff-leaf wrapped sphere on a turned pedestal and a stepped rectangular plinth, three detachable drip-pans replaced 30 in. (76 cm.) high (2)
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
What can we learn from Oscar Wilde’s note to the poet Pierre Louÿs inside this first edition of his only novel?
Photographer Douglas Kirkland on the night in 1961 he ‘made magic’ with Marilyn Monroe — and the camera that captured it all