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Online Sale: The John and Eileen Harris Collection of Architectural Drawings and Works of Art (at Forum Auctions)
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Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection, shares his memories of John and Eileen Harris

Neoclassical British Architect Robert Adam

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Auction dates
26 Nov 2024 12:00 GMT
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Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading London (George), After. Design for the upper section of the great parterre at Longleat, Wiltshire, …
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300 - 500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Whittell (William) Hampton Court com: Heref:, pen and ink, [c. 1700]
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1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Whittell (William) Architectural survey of Hampton Court and Gardens in Herefordshire, ca. 1690s, …
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (18th century) View of an early Georgian country house, as yet as unidentified, …
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800 - 1,200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Thornhill (Sir James) Portrait group of two architects and young boy, possibly Sir Christopher …
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Highmore (Joseph) Study for a family group portrait, oil on paper, [c.1730]
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500 GBP
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800 - 1,200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Winstanley (Henry) The Prospect of the dwelling house of Hen: Winstanley Gent: att Littlebury in …
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Hulsbergh (Henry) The East Front of Cannons in Middlesex, after John Price the Elder, engraving, …
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60 GBP
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100 - 150 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Kent (William), After. Bust of Queen Caroline in an interior decorated with shells, an elevation …
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Kent (William), After. Her Majestys Library in St James's Park, after William Kent, engraving, …
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100 - 150 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Kent (William), After. East Front of Esher Place in Surrey [together with] West Front of Esher …
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90 GBP
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150 - 200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Kent (William), After. Perspective View of the Magnificent Gothick Hall at Hampton Court, Built by …
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90 GBP
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150 - 200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Freeman (John Cooke) Collection of 15 original architectural drawings and designs, 1740
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500 GBP
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800 - 1,200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Smith of Derby (Thomas), Attributed to. South View of Leicester Abbey, Leicestershire, oil on …
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2,000 GBP
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Brown (Lancelot (Capability)), Manner of. Design for a three-arched bridge terminating in a sheet …
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300 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Barret the Elder (George) Moonlit view of a woodland landscape with a house and boathouse, …
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500 GBP
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500 GBP
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800 - 1,200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Williams (William) The Front elevation of Monmouth Town Hall, 1750
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90 GBP
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150 - 200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Harwood (Francis) Design for an urn, from the sculptor's time in Rome, pen and ink, [c.1750s]
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800 GBP
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading θ Wright (Thomas) Universal Architecture, Book 1. Six Original Designs of Arbours, 1755
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500 GBP
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500 GBP
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800 - 1,200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading θ Harris (Eileen).- Wright (Thomas) Arbours & Grottos: A facsimile of the two parts of Universal …
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50 GBP
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80 - 120 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Lewis (Charles) View of Pan's Lodge, Painswick, Gloucestershire, built by the late Benjamin Hyett …
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200 GBP
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300 - 400 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Chambers (Sir William) Design for decoration and furniture of the hall at The Hyde, Ingatestone, …
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1,500 GBP
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Miller (Tobias Martin) and others . Four elevations of country houses, including Longford, …
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60 GBP
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60 GBP
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100 - 150 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Richardson (George) Design for a neoclassical ceiling, brush and ink, pen and ink, [c.1770s]
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400 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Woolfe (John, d.1793) Colworth House, Bedfordshire, with a design for the addition of the wings, …
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180 GBP
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300 - 400 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Wyatt (Samuel) Design of a colonnade building over a bridge for William Lee Esq., probably for …
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400 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (probably mid-18th century) Architectural cut-card model elevation, [18th century]
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3,000 GBP
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (probably mid-18th century) Architectural cut-card model elevation,  [18th century]
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3,000 GBP
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4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Gilpin (William) Picturesque design with a ruined building [recto]; design for a fountain [verso], …
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120 GBP
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Spyers (James) Design for a Landscape Garden with Pond, watercolour, [c. 1780]
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100 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Deare (John) Design for a tomb monument, with tragic heroine, possibly Artemisia, wife of …
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (18th century) Sea monster, with design for a vase (recto); Five classical figure …
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100 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Britton (John) After . Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, oil on panel, [c.1800-1815]
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180 GBP
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180 GBP
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300 - 400 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (18th century) Landscape with country house and deer in the foreground, oil on …
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400 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Smith Jnr. (George) Design for a mausoleum of Egyptian architecture, watercolour, 1801
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180 GBP
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300 - 500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Westmacott the Younger (Richard, 1799-1872 ) Design for a flower urn set on a pedestal, for the …
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400 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (early 19th century) View of Maldivia House, Maldivia Gardens, St Helena, …
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200 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Tatham (Charles Heathcote) The grotto at Wanstead Park, Essex, built by Lord Tylney, sketched on …
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200 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Rocque (John) The Plan of the House, Gardens, Park, and Plantations of Wanstead, the Seat of the …
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280 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Haydon (Benjamin Robert) Portrait of the architect Charles Heathcote Tatham (1772-1842), chalks, …
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100 GBP
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400 - 600 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Heaphy (Thomas) Portrait of an art collector or dealer, full-length, as yet unidentified, standing …
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1,000 GBP
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Roos (Alexander) Perspective of Hadzor Hall, Worcestershire, built for J.H. Galton 1827, …
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180 GBP
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300 - 400 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Wyatville (Jeffry) Design for His Majesty George IV's private drive underneath the Western Bridge, …
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700 GBP
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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (circa 1830s) Detailed interior study of the House of Commons, St Stephen's Chapel, …
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180 GBP
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300 - 500 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (19th century) The British Chapel, Moscow, watercolour, [ circa 1840s]
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1
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100 GBP
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300 - 400 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (T.G.R, circa 1840s) Court House Farm and St Peter’s Church, Portishead, Somerset, …
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1
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60 GBP
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100 - 150 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (circa 1840s) Elevation, plan and profile of an realised project for Emma Cust, …
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1
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90 GBP
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150 - 200 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Goodridge (Henry Edmund) Elevation of a design for the Duke of Hamilton’s mausoleum, Hamilton …
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1
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1,000 GBP
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Cromek (Thomas Hartley, 1809-1873) Apartment in the Villa Chigi, Ariccia, Rome, 1846
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1
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400 GBP
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600 - 800 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (19th century) Curzon Lodge, Old Brompton, London, oil on panel [c.1850]
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1
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120 GBP
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Rawlins (Thomas J.) View of front of Alton Towers, Staffordshire, watercolour, [1860]
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1
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120 GBP
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading English School (19th century) Six studies of country houses by various hands, watercolours, [19th …
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1
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120 GBP
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Wade (Charles Paget) Six studies of farmhouses in rural France, pencil [early 20th century]
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1
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120 GBP
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0 GBP
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200 - 300 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Androuet du Cerceau (Jacques) Roman triumphal arch with Doric columns, from 'Quinque et viginti …
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1
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60 GBP
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0 GBP
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100 - 150 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Marchetti (Marco), Attributed to. Design for the frieze decoration of the cove of a ceiling, with …
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1
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1,000 GBP
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GBP
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Tassi (Agostini, 1578-1644) Design for a monument, possibly a design for a frontispiece [recto]; …
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1
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1,500 GBP
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2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Featured lot Provisionally sold Leading Won Outbid Lost Declined Reserve not met Leading Leclerc (Sébastien), Attributed to. View of a palace garden, with fountain and figures in the …
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1
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500 GBP
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0 GBP
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GBP
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800 - 1,200 GBP