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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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Mar 26, 2022
English, circa 1800, imported by McKay Spear & Brown, 105 Washington St., Boston, each with carved and gilt spread winged eagle on rosette decorated plinth, over fluted frieze with lion mask appliques, fluted Corinthian columns centering early mirror plates with fan and rosette decorated bases, 52 x 25 in.
Note: Illustrated in Bernard & S. Dean Levy Gallery Catalog 13, pg. 39.
Provenance: Emery Family to James Emery of Bucksport, Maine; Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, New York, purchased in 2005 for $38,000 (accompanied by invoice, appraisal, and photographs); Property from an Important Charleston Collection
gilding losses with scattered paint retouch, typical cracks, distress, and repairs at composition elements including capitals, minor cracks at eagles' wings, other possible repairs obscured by gilding and paint retouch, distress to silvering of mirror plates, backboards likely replaced
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