In price terms, the highlight of the sale was another unexpected discovery – a pair of early silver-plated candlesticks consigned as part of a job lot of silver plate which saw several competitors jostling for ownership.
Bidders were primarily interested in the sticks and the lot sold at £1280 – the day’s top entry.
In the furniture section, a Regency rosewood chiffonier with mirror, 18in (45cm) wide, in need of some restoration, sold at £1020 and a three-piece bergère suite took £1050.
Fraser Glennie & Partners, Cirencester, December 1
Buyer’s premium: 11.75 per cent
Cowshed columns
UK: THE last of the monthly sales of collectors’ items and antiques of the year at Cirencester was dominated in visual terms by a pair of Cotswold stone columns, 7ft 6in (2.25m) high, which had been rescued by the vendor from a cowshed where they had lain for 60 years. They achieved a new-found status when they sold at £1200.
