An exotic blend for coffee

UK: IT WAS standard case furniture: tables and other useful pieces of mahogany that made much of the running in the 224-lot sale of furniture held by Christie's South Kensington on January 10, topped at £12,000 by a good Georgian library bookcase from a private deceased estate.

But a more decorative note was sounded by the piece pictured here, an 18th century Chinese gilt and …

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