Piqué perfection…
UK: Christie’s Continental Furniture sale on July 4 (17.5/10% buyer's premium) included a small nine-lot section devoted to Neapolitan piqué work: tortoiseshell objects inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver, which proved decidedly popular.
Eight of these lots, mostly small trays or candlesticks with mother-of-pearl orientalist figural dec…