Sotheby’s is delighted to offer a special selection of highly important and rare English and European furniture, tapestries and objects in its Masterworks sale to be held on January 27, 2012.  Highlights from the sale include a very large and rare Regency Blue John krater vase, a set of four early 18th century Royal French Gobelins tapestries, a magnificent English paste-mounted ormolu automaton musical clock made for the Chinese market and a Royal ormolu-mounted Sèvres fond violet porcelain vase garniture.