Fine Arts
Treasures from adventures in the East shine in Sheppard’s interiors auction
Among the lots in the auction house’s upcoming Interiors Sale are travel mementoes from Victorian and Edwardian tourists
For those who didn’t get to travel over the summer, a journey across continents and times can be had through the treasures coming under the hammer at Sheppard’s 394-lot Interiors Sale, which take place at the Durrow salesroom on Tuesday, September 5.
Connoisseurs wishing to build or enhance their Wunderkammer collection (or Cabinet of Curiosities) should take a look at Lot 15, a 19th-century Islamic brass bowl with animalia, leaf scroll and paterae engraved decoration. ...