Report by Terence Ryle
Returning clients are usually welcome, but few more so than the couple who consigned two pieces of Red Anchor Chelsea to the sale at Lacy Scott & Knight’s (17.5% buyer’s premium) on June 10.
Their last consignment to the Bury St Edmunds saleroom had been back in March 1999 – a pair of 1781 Sèvres swan-handled vases sold for £500,000, at the time a record for any work of art sold at a UK auction outside London (ATG No 1383).