Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 34,500
Estimate
AN EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE GUERIDON The circular fossilized marble top above a frieze mounted with palmette drops interspersed with flowerheads, on three cast winged lion monopodia joined by tripartite stretcher, on leaf-tip-cast circular plinth 34in. (86cm.) high, 39¼in. (100cm.) diameter
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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‘