Memorials of Christie's : a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896 . er Falconnet,with pink drapery and green foliage, 14 incheshigh, and a nymph in blue drapery, the com-panion, together 350 guineas ; an old Sevresvase and cover, turquoise ground, with white andgold bands with gilt festoons and foliage, beauti-fully painted with a female peasant and twochildren, 13I- inches high, 1,510 guineas; andThemire Couronnee par les Graces, a large uprightplaque of old Sevres porcelain, painted by Dodin,one of the illustrations engraved in Montesquieus Temple de Guide, 485 guineas. DecorativeObjects : A
Memorials of Christie's : a record of art sales from 1766 to 1896 . er Falconnet,with pink drapery and green foliage, 14 incheshigh, and a nymph in blue drapery, the com-panion, together 350 guineas ; an old Sevresvase and cover, turquoise ground, with white andgold bands with gilt festoons and foliage, beauti-fully painted with a female peasant and twochildren, 13I- inches high, 1,510 guineas; andThemire Couronnee par les Graces, a large uprightplaque of old Sevres porcelain, painted by Dodin,one of the illustrations engraved in Montesquieus Temple de Guide, 485 guineas. DecorativeObjects : A Louis XVI. circular lantern of or-molu, chased with figures, vines, etc., 460 guineas;a Louis XVL commode, with panels of parqueterieand a panel of marqueterie in front, with a vaseand a basket of fruit and flowers, very richlymounted, 52 inches wide, 3,060 guineas ; a LouisXVL upright secretaire of marqueterie, with afigure of Silence in a medallion suspended byfestoons of foliage on the door, and vases of SILVER-GILT CUP AND Palace sale (p. 23).. DECORATIVE OBJECTS. flowers on the lower doors, rich mounted withormolu, with female terminal busts at the angles,statuary, marble slab, and ormolu gallery, madeby Louis XVI., 44 x 17, and 56 inches high, 1,500guineas; a Louis XVL upright secretaire, withpilasters at the angles, inlaid with panels of mar-queterie, 41 x 15, and 57 inches high, 300 guineas;a Florentine cabinet of ebony, of architecturaldesign, with four columns of jasper in front and aclock in the centre, the dial of lapis lazuli, sur-rounded by a wreath of fruit and flowers in raisedmosaic, with Verona marble slab, 66 x 22, and 45inches high, 605 guineas ; the Laocoon, a reducedcopy in bronze, on Egyptian granite plinth, 810guineas ; an oblong writing-table by Buhl, mountedwith terminal figures, masks, and ornaments oformolu, 76 X 38, 300 guineas ; a Louis XVL com-mode of parqueterie, with a vase of flowers andcoloured marqueterie in the centre, mounte
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