ART TREASURES
HIGH PRICES AT AUCTION (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Nov. 25, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 24. _ The sale of the late Lord Michelham’s art treasures, reputed to have cost £1,000,000 drew buyers from all parts of the world. Sensational prices were paid at the first, day’s auction. The porcelain, antique furniture, and tapestries realised £140.000. French furniturpi brought astonishing prices, a Louis Quinze secretaire realising 9750 guineas. In tapes!vies., Daveen paid £19,(100 for an eighteenth century Gobelin's pane!. Another Beauvais tapestry suite brought. £15,500. . second day’s sale 15 pictures realised £405,000. Two of Boucher’s phnels realised £45,000. Romney’s “Lady Hamilton as Ambassadress,” sold for £40,000. Other ltdmnevs sold were “Anne, Lady Delapoio,” £45,000: "Lady Elizabeth Forbes,’’ 023,000: “Captain , Little’s Qti ild re n'£2l,ooo. Gn ,in Jioro ug) i’s, “Miss Tat toil ’’ sold for £44,000: “Master Heathcole,” £40,000. Raeburn’s ‘Mistress Robert Williamson” brought dpg g(]o ' Duveeii paid £24,000 for Lawrence s portrait of‘‘Mary Moulton Baron and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 13
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