G llery.

In London Sotheby’s most
sensational offering was a
diamond riviere necklace given
by George IV to his mistress,
Elizabeth, Lady Conyngham,
which sold for £148,500 (esti-
mate £l0O-,O0O to £150,000) to S
.1 Phillips, the Bond Street
dealers.

Lady Conyngham was said by
a contemporary to have “sent
away two waggon loads of

castle during the king's last
illness. The necklace was sent
for sale by Lord Conyngham. It
featured in a jewel sale totalling»
£l.5 million, with 12 per cent
unsold. /

' Paris on Wednesday the
n\_,'uscript ofa lecture given by
General de Gaulle at Oxford in
November 1941 was sold for
240.000 francs. or £20,000, to
the Musée de la Liberation in
Paris.

The general analysed the
differences and similaritites
between the French and British
peoples and forecast their future
union in a great victory. The
manuscript, entirely in his
hand. is 18 pages long. Another
19-page address given in the
Albert Hall in 1942 sold for
160.000 francs, or £13,333.

The Boisgirade sale of manu-

scripts also contained an edited
typescript of George Simenon’s
novel, Le Coup do Lune, of
1933, which sold for 165,000
francs, or £13,750. The manu-
script of Francois Mauriac's
GeniIri,\' of 1923 made the same
price and was pre-empted by
the State on behalf of the city
.” ary in Bordeaux.
x.n another Paris saleroom,
Versailles pre-empted a large oil
sketch by Jean Jouvenet for an
oil painting on one wall of the
chateau’s royal chapel. It costs
280,000 francs, or £23,333. A
Lorenzo Lotto panel of the Holy
Family secured 1.65 million
francs, or £137,500.

Sotheby’s silver sale in
London yesterday made
£633,941, with 8 per cent
unsold, and Christie‘s auction
of Chinese ceramics and works
of art made £190,576 with 36
per cent unsold. The flooding of
the market with archaeological
treasures smuggled out of China
seems still to be affecting prices.

 

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