Lot 131 · Christie's Interiors
The Infant Pyrrhus at the court of Glaucias, King of the Illyrians, about to embrace an altar of the gods; and Dido supervising the cutting of oxhide strips to obtain the site of Carthage
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- Estimate
- £5,000–£7,000 hammer ≈ $6,742–$9,438
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Christie's Interiors, London (South Kensington) · 16 December 1998
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4808456
- Record
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Erasmus Quellinus II, The Infant Pyrrhus at the court of Glaucias, King of the Illyrians, about to embrace an altar of the gods; and Dido supervising the cutting of oxhide strips to obtain the site of Carthage. Christie's, 16 Dec 1998, lot 131. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4808456.
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Erasmus Quellinus II, The Infant Pyrrhus at the court of Glaucias, King of the Illyrians, about to embrace an altar of the gods; and Dido supervising the cutting of oxhide strips to obtain the site of Carthage. Christie's, 16 Dec 1998, lot 131. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4808456.
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