Daily Archives: November 3, 2008

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REVERSE SERPENTINE MAHOGANY CHIPPENDALE CHEST BRINGS $34,500 AT FONTAINE’S AUCTION HELD OCTOBER 18th THAT GROSSES OVER $1 MILLION

(Pittsfield, Mass.) – A gorgeous reverse serpentine mahogany four-drawer ball-and-claw foot Chippendale chest, measuring 39-1/2 inches wide by 34-1/2 inches tall by 23-1/2 inches deep, sold for $34,500 at a two-session, multi-estate sale held Oct. 18 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The chest was the top lot in a sale that saw around [Read More]

Puerto Rican Paintings for Sotheby’s Sale

NEW YORK – Sotheby’s announced that its fall sales will feature two rare masterpieces by Puerto Rico’s most acclaimed eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, José Campeche y Jordan (1751-1809) and Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917). On the afternoon of November 12, Sotheby’s London will offer Oller’s epic painting La Batalla de Treviño (est. [Read More]