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British & Continental | March 11, 2025

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Featuring a collection of 17 rare and important tapestries from the Brooklyn Museum, including a 15th-century millefleur and animal example, as well as a series with William Randolph Hearst provenance. Fine art highlights include four works by Bruno Zupan, Spring Landscape by Raymond Thibesart, and a lifetime collection of early René Lalique glass. The collection also features fine examples of period British furniture, early English silver from a Charlottesville, VA estate (including epergnes, tankards, goblets, and loving cups), and a fine selection of carpets, including Serapi and Oushak.
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Lot 119

Chinese Camphor Wood Decorated Small Chest

Estimate: $600 - $900
Starting Bid
$300

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19th century, leather with paint decoration of scrolling leaves and panel with figures in garden setting, brass bound with two side handles and decorative rivets, 13 x 30-1/2 x 15-1/2 in., on modern black painted stand, 21-1/2 x 30-1/2 x 15-1/2 in. overall

Provenance: Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marine, China Trade & Historical Americana, August 18-19, 2012, lot 414 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $1,100); Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection

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Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marine, China Trade & Historical Americana, August 18-19, 2012, lot 414 (accompanied by copy of receipt for $1,100); Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection

some tears and lifting to leather, lacking some rivets, discoloration to metal, surface dirt/accretion, right hinge lacking pin, general wear to wood