April 2009 Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Exhibitors Delighted

Antiques Trade Press Given A Flavour Of What’s Selling At London’s Battersea Decorative Antiques Fair

Some of the exhibitors in the April Decorative Fair were pleased to discuss their antique sales…  for prices you need to read the trade press!

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Denzil Grant – was pleased with sales, which included several farmhouse tables, a late C18th continental walnut commode of unusually pale colour, ticket price £xxxx, and an early C20th landscape painting ticket price £xxxx.

Jeroen Markies – selling was tough, but he was not displeased with sales, which included a George III / Regency original painted four-poster bed with canopy, ticket £xxxx, to a private customer; a nice pair of Regency upholstered benches ticket £xxxx.  Popular accessories were mid-20th century chrome anglepoise-style floor lamps.

David Litt – very happy, with good sales of useful French wood furniture such as farmhouse tables, armoires, consoles and mirrors, at prices up to £xxxx; many sales made to new private customers.

Antiques 4 Ltd – made some good sales of both traditional and decorative furniture and Art Deco-period objets, including a 1930s Ciaparus bronze figure with a ticket price of £xxxx.

Mark Seabrook – “50% of my sales were to new customers”, sales included several collectors’ items such as an unusual early C19th sampler at £xxxx, a laburnum tripod table at £xxxx, a rare C18th church warden’s pipe stand (illustrated in Percy MacQuoid’s 1927 book, ‘Age of Oak’) to a private buyer from Switzerland for £xxxx (ticket price); and a dated box belonging to a 13-year-old boy on entering the Navy, a present from his parents, who made it to Vice Admiral (also sold to a private overseas customer).

Nick Mellors (new exhibitor) – was very happy and enjoyed the Fair immensely, encouraged by steady sales including an ebonised mahogany bookcase c1870, ticket £xxxx, and a late C19th Arts & Crafts oak chest of drawers, ticket price £xxxx.  All sales were made to new customers.

James Jackson – sales included a c1840 walnut veneered commode in good original condition ticket £xxxx.

John Bird/Bruce Wheeler – in the opening moments sold a Hungarian ash cupboard dated 1870 for around £xxxx, a pair of George III Scottish end tables, ticket price £xxxx, a C20th trestle table made from period burr oak £xxxx; and went on during the week to sell a pair of arts & crafts oak bookcases ticket price £xxxx, and two Regency upholstered sofas around £xxxx each.

Hanlon – amongst sales was a fruitwood commode ticket £xxxx.

See further postings for more sales from exhibitors of decorative furniture…