cost of antique table for 20 years has grown 167 times
The cost of a table of mahogany, which will be put up for auction auction house Sotheby's on Tuesday, July 6, Latest one for 20 years has grown more than 160 times. Writes ArtDaily, bidding for this item can pay from 500 thousand to a million pounds, but that in 1989 it was sold for just 6000 pounds.
Cost table increased dramatically, as Sotheby's experts have established the origin of the interior. It is assumed that he could be ordered Italian nobleman Frachesko Maria della Rovere, a German master in the period from 1596 to 1598. Son of Della Rovere of the second marriage, Federico Ubaldo, entered into a marriage with a representative of the Medici family.
The table was a present to Francesco Maria della Rovere, made his granddaughter Vittoria della Rovere. That, in turn, married the Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de 'Medici. As a result, the table became the property of the legendary family. It is these circumstances, experts discovered Sotheby's, and influenced the value of the object.
"I was once asked: what is the treasure?" In my world, a world of objects, a treasure - not just something beautiful, valuable or rare. This is something that tells a compelling story, "- said Mario Tavella (Mario Tavella), Deputy chairman of auction house Sotheby's.
However, belonging to the Medici family table will be put up for auction are 20 items, including automatic musical clock made of gold, agate and bronze (estimated price - from 200 to 300 thousand pounds) and a chest of drawers, made by Andre-Charles Boole (estimated price - from 600 thousand up to one million pounds).
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The table sold for 937,250 GBP.