this lamp, named Clarte, is a version of French sculptor’s Max Le Verrier’s most famous Deco figures titled Leuer. Depicting a female nude holding a translucent alabaster ball mounted on a marble base, it is priced at £1695 with Mark Ditchburn at the upcoming antiques fair at the Holt Hotel.
“From our dealers’ viewpoint the important factor is that the kind of people now attracted to our antiques fair are serious collectors and it’s rare that anyone leaves without making some significant purchases.”
That is the view of Marcus Potts, a dealer who is also organiser of the biannual two-day antiques fair at the Holt Hotel in Steeple Aston, near Oxford. The next is on Saturday and Sunday, November 23-24, with 40 dealers.