David Mellor, the former Tory minister, is facing the threat of a legal battle involving a pair of 18th-c. Boulle chests that were restored and sold for £600,000 to Limited Brands chief executive Leslie Wexner. Mellor is suing former directors and shareholders of Partridge Fine Arts, claiming they were guilty of “systematic fraud” and “counterfeiting”. John and Frank Partridge deny any wrongdoing and say the claims are a ploy by Mellor to avoid paying £1.3m that he and others still owe after buying a 51% stake in their firm...