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 36
. On the right side are a lilyand a squirrel, on the left a couchant stag, in the foregrounda frog and serpent, and behind the Saint a label inscribed inLatin: Prepare ye the way of the Lord. The backgroundis glazed in gray with green and yellow grass and a white lily,the stag is manganese colored,… … 49—Sixteenth Century Sienese Coloeed Terra-cotta BustBust of St. John the Baptist, with curling hair and a halo,robed in a goatskin and holding in his right hand a slendercross. On octagonal molded base. In polychromed terra-cotta. Height, 25^ inches. Note: This bust is attributed to CozzarelH, a…
Art
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![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 36](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-illustratedcatal00volp-36-15.webp)
