Marie-Antoinette’s chair sets an auction record

Among the star attractions at the 60-lot evening sale of works from the collection of Hubert Guerrand-Hermès (1940-2016) at Sotheby’s Paris was a carved and regilded Louis XVI chair.

Stamped for the leading French maker Georges Jacob and dating from c.1784-85, it was thought to ha…

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