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 274

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 274 — figure of Mi-nerva, on the right a figure of Juno, both under canopies;above, figures of queens in blue and yellow robes seated onthrones under round arches, and in the lower corners, figuresof women in chariots, one drawn by horses, the other byleopards. Above is a vase of flowers, flanked by… … No. 453—Sixteenth Century Flemish Tapestry Third and Last Afternoon 4)54!—Seventeenth Century Gobelins Tapestry Subject of The Gardeners. On the left is a marble fountainsurmounted by the figure of a couchant Grecian sphinx and inthe foreground the figures of three Putti, two in bright red,and one…

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