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Lot 124W

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

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A limestone Ionic column capital
Possibly Roman
With a plain stepped abacus, scrolling volutes at either side, with a rounded echinus, set on a short column, 10¼in x 14in x 12¼in (26cm x 35.5cm x 31cm)

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Provenance:
Vincent Korda Collection (22 June 1897 – 4 January 1979), UK, thence by descent. Vincent Korda was an art director and the younger brother of Sir Alexander Korda and Zoltan Korda, all film-makers. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction on 'The Thief of Baghdad' (1940), and was nominated for three others.

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