High point of this £1.36m (including premium) sale was this George III satinwood and harewood marquetry demi-lune commode, attributed to Mayhew & Ince, which realised £180,000 (plus 12.5 per cent premium). On the same day Sotheby’s offered a catalogue of property from nine different country houses in Billingshurst, which totalled just over £2m (including premium) while on September 13 Christie’s South Kensington sold the property from the estate of the late Sir Edward Stephen Lycett Green Bt. at Ken Hill, Snettisham in Norfolk for £1.53m (including premium).
George III demi-lune commode
UK: THE autumn sale season got properly under way last week with three sales in the ‘Country House’ vein. Offered from Vost’s at Tattersalls in Newmarket on September 16 were the contents of Badlington Manor, the property of the retired stock broker Mr Keith Heathcote.
