Electric atmosphere in the saleroom as unique provenance holds sway
Provenance, Provenance Provenance, this was the key to the runaway success of Sotheby’s 539-lot, £1.66m sale of items formerly owned by the famous engineer James Watt and his son James Watt Junior that had been carefully passed down through his family.
Held in Bond Street on March 20, the sale was brought about by the death last year of Lord Gibson-Wa…