Cabinet result runs Chinese charger close in Exeter

It’s a rare sale these days at which an English furniture standard challenges quality Chinese pieces for price, but the top end of the trade certainly rated a 6ft 3in (1.9m) William and Mary walnut and featherbanded bureau cabinet offered by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (21% buyer’s premium).

Other more pedestrian examples of a textbook form might well have sold at the £4000-6000 estimate.…

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