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SALE STRATEGY: THE EXCEPTIONAL SALE SALE PLAN: THE EXCEPTIONAL SALE, DECEMBER 2014 We propose offering your Louis XIV Bureau Plat by Andre-Charles Boulle in our highly successful Exceptional Sale platform in December 2014. A unique platform for the very best of the decorative arts, The Exceptional Sale is a highly selective offering of the finest furniture, silver, ceramics, clocks and sculpture made from the 16th century to the modern age. Each work of art in The Exceptional Sale exemplifies excellence in design, craftsmanship, materials, condition and provenance. The extraordinary display of quality in The Exceptional Sale presents a singular opportunity to engage today's top global collectors. Christie's most elite clients have endorsed The Exceptional Sale since its inception in 2008, driving its unmatched success and far outstripping the rival sale by our closest competitor. A SEVRES PORCELAIN ORMOLU- MOUNTED BLUE-GROUND VASE- Christie's inaugural New York Exceptional Sale in will be held on December CLOCK AND COVER Estimate: E120.000-180.000 10, 2014, capping the all-important fall auction season. A special preview of Price realized: E433,875 The Exceptional Sale will take place in our Rockefeller Center galleries in ChnstieY London, The Exceptional Sale, July 2013 November, when the world's top collectors gather at Christie's. In November 2013, Christie's New York sold over $1 billion of art. Registered bidders PURCHASED BY THE CHATEAU DE hailed from 42 countries and 16 new world auction records were set. VERSAILLES Promoted alongside the season's top Contemporary, Modern, Post-War and Impressionist pictures, the decorative arts of The Exceptional Sale will be integral to Christie's 2014 roll call of great art. CHRISTIE'S EXCEPTIONAL SALE VS. SOTHEBY'S TREASURES SALE • CHRISTIE'S £30,000,000 £25,000,000 £20,000,000 £15,000,000 £10,000,000 £5,000,000 2011 II 2012 2013 EFTA00597787 SALE STRATEGY THE POWER OF PROVENANCE traced to two of the most Our research has found that your bureau plat can be er Georges Hoentschel influential collectors and connoisseurs of their era: the design with the Metropolitan Museum (1855-1915), the subject of a 2013 joint exhibition him to today's collectors, and of Art and the Bard Graduate Center that reintroduced Hoentschel's the financier Morgan (1837-1913). In 1906, Morgan purchased Museum of Art, where it collection in its entirety and donated it to the Metropolitan bureau plat, along with a formed the nucleus of the Decorative Arts collection. This built wing at the Museum. Such vast array of other works, was displayed in a custom collections is incredibly rare, a clear, close link with both legendary private and public tion since it's deaccession by particularly as the bureau plat has remained in your collec mind, we would market your bureau the Metropolitan Museum in 1986. With that in BUREAU PLAT. plat as THER MORGAN - HOENTSCHEL BOULLE ESTIMATES correct level of pricing for lots Buyers are becoming increasingly discerning about the tes are set conservatively and at auction. The best results will be achieved when estima estimated too aggressively, attract a large number of interested collectors. If lots are they may be able to buy at a buyers today will not bid on a lot, in the knowledge lower price after the sale. l consideration to strike a balance Our pre-sale estimate takes these factors into carefu returns or exceeds your on the estimate. Our goal is to achieve a sale price that saleability of the pieces with purchase price. Further, it is our aim to maximize the value with reference to the market. estimates that entice bidding and represent a fair le estimate for your bureau After careful consideration, we would recommend a pre-sa we used to determine this estimate plat of 5400,000-600,000. The three main factors are: Andre-Charles Boulle. • The bureau plat can now be firmly attributed to ance. • The newly discovered Hoentschel and JP Morgan proven lion's mask mounts are • An initial examination of the desk has indicated the mounts are probably replaced and that a good portion of the drawer border ormolu mounts to vet all the replaced. Christie's employs an outside expert in in consultation with him. significant pieces. We will research the mounts further Right: The bureau plat in the Hoentschel collection EFTA00597788