Chapter III · Provenance & Demand — Plate IV of XII
The Lumière Cabinet · Spring Catalogue MMXXV
Insight · Auction Behaviour

Daylight undersells the cabinet. Under blacklight, the gavel changes its mind.

Mean hammer price, by lighting condition · 2019–2024
£ Sterling · per lot, log-equivalent
£ 4,800 £ 3,600 £ 2,400 £ 1,200 £ 0 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 £ 4,610 mean +541% over daylight comparable 2024 Daylight Blacklight (365 nm)

Six consecutive seasons. The pale custard lots, photographed in flat daylight, behave like ordinary pressed glass; the same pieces, re-photographed at 365 nm, draw bidders who will not blink at four figures.

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