Mahogany Breakfront Brings $585 in $51,640 Auction
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A Regency mahogany and grillwork breakfront cabinet with Roman portrait
medallions, circa 1820, was sold to a private collector for $585
yesterday at the final session of the sale of art property of the late
Margaretta C. Spedden and other collectors.
Receipts at this session, which was held in the Parke-Bernet Galleries,
980 Madison Avenue, were $23,507. The total obtained from three
sessions was $51,640.
A sixteenth century painting of the Madonna and Child with St. John and
Angels by the Italian artist Puligo was purchased by the Darsa Company
for $475. Two George III mahogany china cabinets of English
eighteenth century design went to Arthur Ackerman & Son for $800.
Courtesy of Mark Baber
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