Author Topic: Walsh epergne breaks all records! (Read 2672 times)

Della · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2006, 03:17:45 PM »

I really don't know Lynne, it is just the devil in me creeping to the top :twisted:

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epergne smashed

josordoni · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2006, 03:29:56 PM »

Well it's not unknown for auction items to get broken.... see my posting about the porter who dropped the entire box of Strathearn and Perthshire paperweights recently. (and who is NOT being allowed to live it down at the auction house either....) I can't remember which thread it was in, but I was very upset... :cry: :cry:

I wanted those weights.... :roll:

Bernard C · « **Reply #12 on:** October 26, 2006, 07:42:19 PM »

I will leave the puzzle unsolved a little longer, unless someone gets really close.

Bernard C.

Ron · « **Reply #13 on:** October 26, 2006, 09:14:42 PM »

I'm reading it as "this auction house" (dallasauctiongallery) is part of Sotheby's.

aa · « **Reply #14 on:** October 26, 2006, 09:51:05 PM »

The Sotheby's Royal Brierley Auction was the factory collection, so I think one can assume that the description of the waterlily epergne was correct. Logically, that suggests that the description in the Dallas auction should have been that it was a Stevens and Williams epergne and not a Webb one.

Or have I missed something?

Bernard C · « **Reply #15 on:** October 26, 2006, 10:13:40 PM »

Impeccable research and logic, Mr. Aaronson, but wrong.

Bernard C.

aa · « **Reply #16 on:** October 26, 2006, 10:15:01 PM »

Knew it!

aa · « **Reply #17 on:** October 26, 2006, 10:23:02 PM »

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Or have I missed something?

Out on a limb, now, or should I say a branch....I don't think this has been correctly described as an epergne!

An epergne is a table centrepiece with branching holders into which you slot the glass elements, usually trumpet shaped vases. Not quite sure what this is.

bubbles · « **Reply #18 on:** October 26, 2006, 10:34:24 PM »

Can we have the answer now please? I have a hospital appointment in the morning and need to get to bed! :lol:

David E · « **Reply #19 on:** October 26, 2006, 11:06:57 PM »

Quote from: "aa"

Quote from: "aa"

Or have I missed something?

Out on a limb, now, or should I say a branch....I don't think this has been correctly described as an epergne!

Nah, you're clutching at straws... or should I say twigs?