Founded three years ago, the Whitchurch, Shropshire, firm of Trevanion & Dean (19% buyer’s premium) enjoyed its best sale so far when the 950 lots, ranging from Renaissance art to contemporary glass, totalled £250,000 on November 18.
Top-seller was an extensive late-19th century, Louis XVI-style bedroom suite. Made in walnut and coromandel on an oak carcass, all nine pieces featured plentiful ormolu mounts that encouraged an attribution to the Paris revivalist Henry Dasson (1825-96).
The suite, including armoire, bed, dressing tables, side tables and chairs, was consigned from a house at Windsor where it had been since it was bought in Brighton in 1963 for £550 – about £11,000 in today’s money.