Sale 6490
London
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20 September 2001
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Price realised
GBP 11,750
Estimate
A REGENCY MAHOGANY DRUM TABLE The circular reeded black leather-lined top above four frieze drawers and four simulated frieze drawers, on a reeded spreading support, with downswept reeded legs brass caps and castors, three drawers locked, the underside with Bournemouth depository label (damaged), the spigot and handles replaced 30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 42¾ in. (108.5 cm.) diam.
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Pre-Lot Text
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‘