Specialist choice of settee underlines selective bidding
“SELECTIVE” can mean “poor” when auctioneers apply the word to bidding and the downward spiral of brown furniture prices has emphasised this. But it was an accurate enough description of bidding on furniture offered among the 1200 lots at the Clifton rooms, for when there was a piece of unusual quality it sold well.
The c.1680 joined oak settee which led the section was in itself both rare and good but adding to th…