A £40,000 star older than looks suggest...
The 20in (52cm) high dinanderie vase by Jean Dunand, pictured, right, with original black patina and sleek Art Deco outlines belying its early date of 1913, zoomed to €60,000 (£40,000), five times the estimate, at the Tajan (20.33% buyer’s premium) sale of 20th century decorative arts on March 4.
It had originally belonged to Dunand’s family.
Along with a low, ebonised library table by Eugène P…