Sale 5055
Paris
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11 June 2003
Price realised
EUR 1,116
Estimate
PAIRE DE BOUTONS DE MANCHETTE EN OR ET EMAIL, PAR DAVID WEBB De forme ovale à décor d'une torsade d'émail bleu et blanc (éclats), monture en or jaune Signés Webb (2)
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A PAIR OF ENAMEL AND GOLD CUFFLINKS, BY DAVID WEBB
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