Pieces of furniture ranked by hammer price at public auction in millions of USD. The Badminton Cabinet — a monumental 18th-century pietra dura and ebony cabinet commissioned by the Duke of Beaufort and completed in Florence in 1726 — sold a...
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Pieces of furniture ranked by hammer price at public auction in millions of USD. The Badminton Cabinet — a monumental 18th-century pietra dura and ebony cabinet commissioned by the Duke of Beaufort and completed in Florence in 1726 — sold at Christie's in 2004 for £19 million ($36.7 million), making it the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at auction and a benchmark that has never been surpassed in nearly two decades of subsequent sales.
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Piet Mondrian Red Blue Chair (1923) leads with 19 in 2016.
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Average value in 2016: 19 · median: 19.
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2004 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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8 categories
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8 years
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Top Value
37
Badminton Cabinet (1726, Florence)
Auction Price (Million USD) · 2004
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Auction Price (Million USD)
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Period
2002 – 2016
8 years of data
Statistical Summary — 2016
19
Maximum
19
Minimum
19
Average
19
Median
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