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Live Auction

The Fine Sale - Day One

Sat, Apr 27, 2019 11:00AM EDT
Lot 140

Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Fable Candlesticks

Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Each with gold anchor mark and three paper numbered stickers. Modeled after Aesop's fables of the Tiger and the Leopard.

12 x 8 1/4 in. and 12 x 8 in.

Arthur S. Vernay, Inc., New York, 1933; Estate of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1958.

Property from the Estate of William Kelly Simpson

Condition

The tiger with restored nozzle and drip pan, arrow feathers and forelegs of fox. Some chips and losses to leaf and petal tips, some pigment flaking. The Leopard group with some chips and losses to petal and leaf tips and one foreleg of fox broken off.