Advantageous Auctions UK: Chatsworth: The Attic Sale - 3-day sale to be held by Sotheby's at Chatsworth this autumn
Sotheby's announces today the first ever auction sale at Chatsworth, the most magnificent of all England's stately homes.
Chatsworth: The Attic Sale - a three-day auction to be held in the grounds on October 5th-7th – will have in it all the ingredients of the quintessential attic sale. An Aladdin’s cave of items at all price levels (estimates range from £20 to £200,000), the sale will have at its core a wealth of fine, rare architectural fixtures and fittings, the existence of which had been obscured by time. Discovered beneath layers of dust, these magnificent pieces – handsomely carved fireplaces, architraves, doors and shutters - were once part of the fabric of the many great houses that have featured in the Devonshire family’s extraordinary history, including Chatsworth itself, Chiswick House, Hardwick Hall, Lismore Castle, Compton Place, Bolton Abbey and, most of all, the family's palatial London residence, Devonshire House, on Piccadilly, home of the legendary Georgiana, 5th Duchess of Devonshire. Devonshire House was designed in every detail by William Kent, and many architectural elements that he created for the house will be included in the sale.
Estimated to realise a sum in the region of £2.5 million, the sale will comprise some 20,000 objects in around 1,400 lots.
