Sale 2897
New York
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18 November 2014
Price realised
USD 5,000
Estimate
A HERIZ CARPET NORTHWEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900 Approximately 13 ft. 1 in. x 11 ft. 4 in. (399 cm. x 345 cm.)
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PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND OF THE DENVER ART MUSEUM (LOT 165)
Specialist Paul Gallois on two wildly different yet equally beautiful 18th-century desks — one made in France, the other in Germany, both offered in London
Fashioned in China and paid for with silver from the Americas, these candlesticks represent the Spanish Empire at its height
The story of the French factory founded in the 18th century, from evolutions in style to the monarchs who gladly waited years for their commissions to be created
A new series on how Christie’s specialists appraise valuable artworks and objects — beginning with a 19th-century Baccarat chandelier
An intensely autobiographical work that was made at a tumultuous period in the artist’s life — offered on 18 June
Specialist Jason Carey looks at a painting that encapsulates the the energy, innovation and dynamism of Paris in 1913