Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Lamp Auctioned for Record $1.76 Million
From Times staff and wire reports
A glass and bronze lotus lamp sold at Sotheby’s for $1.76 million, a record price for a 20th-Century decorative work of art, the auction house said. The lamp by the French artists Daum Nancy and Louis Majorelle had been expected to bring $500,000 to $600,000, a Sotheby’s spokeswoman said in New York. Each of its three sockets supports a mold-blown, wheel-carved glass shade in pink and green, with the largest in the shape of a lotus blossom and the other two molded as lotus buds.
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