Sale 2298
Rome
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23 May 1996
Price realised
ITL 1,955,000
Estimate
Jorgen Roed Ciociara tracce di firma, olio su tela, cm 46x36,5
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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