Academic values fall as decorative ones rise
UK: AS EVEN the upper echelons of the trade cannot afford to stick to academic standards at the expense of turning a profit in the market for the purely decorative, one finds increasingly serious sums of money paid out for amusing trifles of zero antiquity, such as a large pair of 20th century Continental jardinières, one of which is shown here.
The pair, which turned up at the Honiton salerooms of Bonhams & Brooks (15 per cent buyer’s prem…