by Terence Ryle
A consignment of furniture from the medieval Eastington Hall, Worcestershire, boosted Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire on May 21.
Private buyers took most of the early furniture at the May 21 sale and two competing collectors accounted for the 16-times estimate result on what appeared to be a conservatively guided, late 17th century walnut and seaweed marquetry bachelor’s chest catalogued as in the manner of Gerrit Jensen.