Hang on, that fountain looks familiar

An old Instagram posting from a dealer in Virginia helped Joe Holahan confirm the backstory of a French fin de siècle bronze and marble fountain consigned at the eleventh hour to a garden statuary sale at Kamelot (25% buyer’s premium) in Philadelphia.

Holahan, a partner at Kamelot who has been present for all 20 of its annual garden sales, had not …

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