Sale 1500
New York
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15 April 2005
Price realised
USD 8,400
Estimate
A SET OF EIGHT LATE GEORGE III ELM, YEWWOOD AND BEECHWOOD SIDE CHAIRS THAMES VALLEY, CIRCA 1800 Each with a slightly incurved tablet crestrail above a pierced X-form splat centered by a roundel over a saddle seat, on ring and baluster-turned legs joined by curved stretchers (8)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 February 1982, lot 192.
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY TRUST (LOTS 283-319)
With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago
Hongmiao Shi gets the specialists’ perspectives on a quartet of precious artworks and objects available for immediate purchase