Report by Terence Ryle
It takes something special these days for a piece of furniture to be the soar-away star of a sale – particularly a sale with a couple of five-figure Chinese lots and attractive collections of glass and ceramic rarities.
The ‘something special’ at Duke’s (22% buyer’s premium) at Dorchester on February 23 was the 19th century Italian ebony, pietra dura and gilt metal cabinet illustrated on this page.