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cabinet mahogany set record price for antique furniture
A MAGNIFICENT LOUIS XIV GILT-BRONZE AND PIETRA DURA-MOUNTED BROWN TORTOISESHELL, ASH, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT CABINET-ON-STAND
ATTRIBUTED TO DOMENICO CUCCI AND THE GOBELINS WORKSHOP, CIRCA 1665-1675
Sold at Christie £ 4,521,250 ($ 7,328,947)
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/l...1-7f7006ad2fcc

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cabinet-cabinet of mahogany, made in the second half of XVII century Italian master Domenico Kuchchi, set a record price at auction Christie's. Wardrobe, who went for 7.33 million dollars, became the most expensive piece of antique furniture, sold in 2009.
Cupboard, once belonged to the Queen of Sweden Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, is decorated with columns of granite and Florentine mosaics, and decorated with gilded bronze. He is one of the three cabinets cabinets Domenico Kuchchi, survive to this day.

The auction, which set a record, was held the evening of 10 December in London. Among the lots is worth noting mantle clock German masters of the XVIII century, sold for 663 thousand dollars, and decorated with wooden mosaic of rosewood cabinet, made in 1777 and departed for 488 thousand dollars.

European auctions of antique furniture in 2009, a total of Christie's brought more than 227 million dollars. The next auction will be held on December 17 in Paris.

Well, it is clear cabinet boHaty, but I was most surprised zhakobovskie geridony little modestly, which in Dru'o of 300 thousand euro fly