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"Stanley Falconer Auction at Christie's London\nA tastemaker's country estate is the treasure-filled source for the latest sale at Christie's in London\nTopped with the French tricolor and Phrygian cap (a popular symbol of the French Revolution), this 19th-century gilded and painted mirror is 24 inches tall and 11 inches wide. Sold with a small Louis XVI mirror, it should bring $610\u2013$900.\nGlazed with a striking finish intended to evoke agate and topped with a rose-flowered finial, this 5-inch-tall Staffordshire creamware covered pot was made in the 19th\u00A0century. It should bring $610\u2013$900.\nWhen a standard-size side table would take up too much room, Falconer deployed slender French vide poches, a handy design whose name translates to \"empty pocket.\" These two mahogany and brass-inlaid octagonal examples, made in the 19th\u00A0century, are expected to bring $1,200\u2013$1,800. Falconer purchased the larger one, which measures 27 inches tall by 23.5 inches wide by 12 inches deep, at Colefax &amp;amp; Fowler in 1990.\nThis English 19th-century painted side table stood in the entrance hall of decorator Stanley Falconer's country residence, Tughill House in Gloucestershire. Measuring a slender 8.5 inches wide by a grand 50 inches wide, it is expected to bring $760\u2013$1,200.\nFalconer owned several of Sibyl Colefax &amp;amp; John Fowler's signature Friar's chairs. One example, upholstered in green velvet and garnished with bullion fringe, is expected to bring $760\u2013$1,200. Another version, Lot 87, is covered in goldenrod-yellow velvet and bears a similar estimate.\nChristie's catalogue listing suggests that this 18th-century Louis XV console may have been cut down from a larger center table. The gray-painted base is topped with red Brescia marble. It measures 31 inches high by 56.5 inches wide and 19.75 inches deep (est. $2,300\u2013$3,000).\nMeasuring 9 feet 8 inches long by 7 feet 3 inches wide, this antique Bessarabian carpet in shades of blue, cream, and coral is estimated to bring $1,200\u2013$2,300.\nThis antique Irish mirror, measuring 28.25 inches high by 22.25 inches wide, features an ebonized frame striped with gilding; the inner band of gilding is crisscrossed with a ribbonlike detail. Made in the late 18th\u00A0or early 19th\u00A0century, it is estimated at $920\u2013$1,400.\nFalconer possessed a large collection of antique porcelain and pottery animal figurines, including this Bow pug, seated on a hillock of grass and scratching its ear. Dating from around 1755 and measuring just over four inches high, it is expected to bring $1,200\u2013$1,800.\nInterior decorator John Fowler, Falconer's mentor, placed this 18th-century demilune table in the entrance hall of his own country house, the legendary Hunting Lodge. Topped with rouge royale marble and likely Italian in origin, the Louis XVI\u2013style antique is estimated at $4,600\u2013$7,500.\nThese 19th-century fauteuils en cabriolet stood around a Directoire table in Falconer's dining room at Tughill House. Painted gray and upholstered with worn olive-green leather on the front and a smartly checked neutral fabric on the reverse, the set of six comfortable chairs are expected to bring $4,600\u2013$7,500."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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