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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