Christie’s New York will present an auction of Important European Furniture, Ceramics, and Carpets on May 20, which will include approximately 390 lots from the 15th through the 19th centuries. Works from private collections offer important reflections of collectors’ exquisite taste and connoisseurship, such as a magnificent lacquer bureau plat from the Viennese Rothschilds, a Louis XV cream-painted paneled room, and a porcelain mantel clock- a gift from Louis XVIII to the Duc d’ Angoulême, and rare ivories from the Baden Kunstkammer.

Viewing: Christie’s Rockefeller Galleries May 16-19

Posted: 05|10|08 at 11:46 am. Filed under: US News.