Sale 8086
London, South Kensington
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29 July 1998
Price realised
GBP 437
Estimate
A BLACK LACQUERED AND CHINOISERIE DECORATED PINE CHEST, 18TH CENTURY WITH A MOULDED TOP ABOVE TWO SHORT AND TWO LONG DRAWERS WITH PIERCED BRASS ESCUTCHEONS AND DROP HANDLES, ON BRACKET FEET, DISTRESSED, DECORATION RUBBED, ONE ESCUTCHEON REPLACED AND TWO FEET DETACHED -- 42IN. (107CM.) WIDE
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As paintings by the successors to Millais, Holman Hunt and Rossetti are offered at Christie’s in London, specialist Sarah Reynolds highlights the sumptuous work of the Pre-Raphaelites’ second and third generations
Specialist Camille de Foresta explains how these two large beasts were made some 1,000 years ago to accompany their Chinese owner into the afterlife