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Beauty truth? A battle over the provenance of a pair of gleaming urns sees Christie's caught between two formidable adversaries: a glamorous Marquess and the daughter of a press baron. At stake, should the case go to court on Monday, is the art world as we know it.
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It was one of those nights, Thursday 8 December 1994 at
Christie's, when the auction room sings. On the block were millions
of pounds worth of art from Houghton Hall, Norfolk, sold by the young
7th Marquess of Cholmondeley to pay his estate bills. Recession,
hanging low over Mr Major's economy, seemed a million miles away. On
the rostrum, Christie's auctioneer Lord Hindlip waved and grinned and
spilled over the edge of the box as he wandered from disbelief to
delirium at the prices. When all ...
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