Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917] (1917)

Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938, Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922, Kirby, Thomas Ellis, 1846-1924, American Art Association · New York : American Art Galleries · leaf 165

An illustration from Illustrated catalogue of the extraordinary collection of art treasures and antiquities acquired during the past year by Professore Commendatore Elia Volpi ... to be sold at unrestricted public sale at the American Art Galleries [on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 17th, 18th and 19th, 1917], 1917, leaf 165 — 328—Seventeenth Century Venetian Carved, Pierced and GiltWood FrameRectangular shape. Carved and pierced with voluted andscrolled acanthus leaves, in the centers with honeysuckles andscrolls and at the angles with voluted and scrolled trefoils.The inner frame is carved with bands of laurel leaves… … 329—Seventeenth Centuky Venetian Carved^ Pierced andGilt Wood FrameRectangular shape. The inner molding is carved with a bandof laurel leaves secured by crossed ribbons. The main frameis carved and pierced in a design of boldly scrolled acanthusleaves and loops of ribbonings. Completely gilded.…

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