Buyers prove selective to 19th century tastes

They haven’t exactly been churning out sales at Christie’s (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) King Street rooms recently. Things have been pretty quiet since the February Impressionist and Modern auctions, and their March 21 auction of 19th century furniture and sculpture was their first decorative arts event this year.

It wasn’t an unqualified success with only 58 per cent of the 231 lots finding buyers, although ther…

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