£13,000 for pair whose estimate was anything but punchy

Benefiting from the long summer gap but seeing the best-and-rest polarisation that affects most categories of the art market these days, there were mixed results for Christie’s South Kensington’s 299-lot sale of Selected Silver on September 10.

It produced some strong individual prices from a stock-hungry trade, but equally a fairly hefty 38 p…

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