The most expensive item sold at the Masterpiece preview day yesterday was a 1912 Cartier Corsage for more than $20 million at Symbolic and Chase, who maintain a private salon at Old Bond St. in London. There were strong sales and the highest visitor numbers to date for the preview (17,000). Visitors included Charles Saatchi, Jay Jopling Wilbur Ross, Jasper Conran, Audrey Gruss, Rod Stewart, Penny Lancaster, Diana Rigg, Freddy and Muriel Salem, Tom Ford, Nasser David Khalili, Nick Foulkes, artists Howard Hodgkin and Marc Quinn, Hilary and Guy Pelley, Maria and Malek Sukkar, Fatima Maleki, Maryam Eisler, Zandra Rhodes, David Sassoon, Gabrielle and Louis Bacon, Audrey Gruss, Kim Heirston-Evans, Ellie Cullman and Scott Snyder.
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