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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 73

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144—Seventeenth Century Italian Embroidered EscutcheonShield-shaped acanthus-leaf scrolled voluted and diapered es-cutcheon, with coat-of-arms having upper field in blue velvetand surmounted by a helmet with acanthus-leaf mantlings.Mounted in silk damask. Height, 18^ inches; width, 151/4 inches. … 145—Eighteenth Century Italian Embroidered EscutcheonHeart-shaped scrolled and voluted escutcheon embroidered insilver and colored silks having floral pendants at the sides, witha heraldic device of a floriated cross and surmounted by apointed trefoil-leaf crown. Mounted on silk damask. Height, 22…

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