Catalogue of valuable works of art, comprising important bronzes, statuary, majolica and furniture of the Italian Renaissance; German wood carvings; Oriental rugs, etc., the property of Mrs. Best (formerly known as the Zeiss collection) . A.C. Godfrey .Tapestry Maps from the Sheldon Looms, c. 1590 the property of G. Birkbeck . the Marquess of Lansdowne .A Jacobean Cabinet, with panels painted by David Teniers, and other valuable furniture; Flemish Tapestries; Old Chelsea and Worcester Porcelain; Irish Seal Matrices; Commonwealth and Charles II Silver ; A Remarkable Stained Glass Window in five panels, with portraits of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, the property of Lord Braye . the Earl of Leicester . Dowager Lady Cankerville [ Sotheby, W

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Yellow printed wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm, 38 pp, 24 plates (some folding), ills. From Herrmann: 'Sotheby's Portrait of an auction house" -The [sale] on 26 March included the Zeiss Collection, at that time the property of an English lady, which had been catalogued originally by the celebrated Dr. Bode of Berlin s Kaiser Friedrich Museum, and other well-known experts. August Zeiss was a German industrialist who had been an active supporter ot Bode s museum. His collection was very strong in early Renaissance bronzes. Three were attributed to Donatello himself; others to some of his followers. Then there was a number of German and Italian wood carvings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; a good deal of Italian maiolica; some fine Meissen; various Limoges enamels; elaborately decorated sixteenth-century Italian furniture, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Turkish and other carpets. Included in the same sale was a bronze group of Virtue Overcoming Vice, only 10 1/4 inches high, by Benvenuto Cellini, which fetched the remarkable price of £1,550. Another property, that had come from Norfolk, consisted of two pieces of Elizabethan tapestry of a map of Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties…The catalogue included twenty-four pages of plates printed by collotype. which showed with mouth-watering detail many of the items included." Neatly priced in ink and totalled. Manuscript title added on spine, wrappers duststained and spotted, slight wear to spine ends, otherwise Good. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-46826

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