CHRISTIE Auction – London
CHRISTIE
500 Years The European Connoisseur
Christie, auction in London 5th
. July.
LONDON: CHRISTIE: 500 YEARS The European Connoisseur sale offers a closely curated selection of French, North European and Italian furniture andobjets d’art, sculpture and clocks spanning six centuries.
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CONSOLES, MID-18TH CENTURY
The sale is led by a rare group of 15 Regence and Louis XV Chinese and Japanese porcelain cache-pots and pot-pourri vases from an important private collection, with estimates ranging from £5,000 to £60,000
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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU, POLISHED STEEL, COPPER, BRASS AND MALACHITE CASKET ATTRIBUTED TO THE TULA IMPERIAL MANUFACTORY,
Also featured in the sale is a superb neoclassical Roman marquetry commode, inlaid with classical scenes inspired by the celebrated ornemaniste Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and a very fine pair of Empire ewers attributed to the foremost bronzier Claude Galle.
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE EWERS, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE, will be sold at Christies, London.
An opulent ormolu clock, by tradition a gift from the people of Bohemia to Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, displays finely executed dials incorporating calendar work and a one-year duration moonphase, while a beautiful bronze model of a pacing lion is attributed to Gianfrancesco Susini, who trained in Giambologna’s studio and produced bronzes for the Medici family
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| AUCTION Friday, 5 July 2013 |
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| VIEWING 28 June – 4 July 8 King Street London SW1Y 6QT |