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Article: English furniture 1720-1880: Michael Pick reviews the recent highlights of a market where provenance, a designer's or maker's name and a dash of the unusual or intriguing are all eagerly sought after, and in combination make for record prices.(Collector's Focus)
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- June 1, 2005
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In each area of the art market we have come to expect that the best examples are those now most in demand. The middle-ground of good brown English furniture is still sought after, but is the rare and fine that now more than ever commands the highest price. This is a reflection of the comment made after the Sotheby's sale in 2004 of the Vermeer Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, that a recent discovery and a new attribution raised its desirability in line with Sotheby's successful sale of the Rubens Massacre of the Innocents for a record price in 2002.
In English furniture, the sale of the Doris Duke collections at Christie's in New York in July 2004 gave ...
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... ... for your clients. The only wholesale antiques market in New York is in the University Place area. It would require a book ... Rather than compete with the dealers who import traditional English furniture, he looks for the one-of-a-kind, the uncommon piece ...
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