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 28
medallions of mother-of-pearl sur-rounded by scroUings and festoons of ivory. The interior isfitted with eight small drawers having fronts inlaid with ivoryscroUings, raised jewels mounted in silver-gilt and silver-gilthandles formed as human heads. In the center is a compart-ment with hinged door… … 33—Seventeenth Century Florentine Gilded Bronze andSilver CasketRectangular shape, with pyramidal lid. Surmounted by a figureof Cupid with outstretched arms on molded square base. Lidand sides of gilded bronze mounted with silver, repousse andchased in designs of voluted scrollings and acanthus…
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