Sale 1842
New York
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20 April 2007
Price realised
USD 18,000
Estimate
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD MARQUISES LATE 18TH CENTURY Each with twisted ribbon-carved crest rail and scrolled arms and guilloche-carved seat rail on paterae-headed stop-fluted tapering legs, covered in moss-green velvet, one marked in red chalk 'No. 3' (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 16 November 2004, lot 531.
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