Sale 8621
London, South Kensington
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15 December 1999
Price realised
GBP 518
Estimate
A Victorian double chair-back sofa covered in deep buttoned upholstery, with a padded serpentine seat, on scroll-headed channelled slender cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet with castors, the upholstery distressed -- 80in. (203cm.) wide
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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