Colour and cupidity

DURING the 1980s, pine furniture was routinely sent to be stripped as soon as acquired, so it is lucky that the original green and red paint has survived on an early-19th-century dresser , with Chalet White at the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair in London’s Battersea Park (until October 3). In June 1994, it was among the furnishings of the Mill House, Sonning-on-Thames, Berkshire, now the British home of George and Amal Clooney and then owned by Count Adrian and Countess Irena