Sale 1566
New York
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21 October 2005
Price realised
USD 1,080
Estimate
TWO SEVRES GILT WHITE ICE-CUPS (TASSES A GLACES) 1810-1822, blue stenciled interlaced L's enclosing fleur-de-lys and SEVRES, various incised and gilder's marks Each of baluster form with loop handle, gilt with crowned interlaced L's beneath a band of angled leaves, gilt line rim; together with an Italian gilt white footed compote, circa 1800, iron-red painted six-pointed star mark for Ginori, the center monogrammed with a crowned script E, the border gilt with stylized palms horizontally arranged at the lower angle of the lozenges of a thin trellis, the spreading foot with burnished gold band, 8 3/8 in. diameter 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diameter, the compote (2)
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE VALENTINE COLLECTION
Specialist Joy McCall answers key questions for collectors of the glassmaker’s exquisite pieces. Illustrated with lots offered in the Lalique sale on 15 May
Offered in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art