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LOT 1184
Pictures of Grecian History in Miniature Book
1810 A.D.
2 1/2 in. (35.2 grams, 64 mm high).
Designed by Alfred Mills, printed in London, original leather binding, 96 pages with black-and-white illustrations; part of a series of Alfred Mills’s Miniature Historic Library.
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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Christie's, Sotheby's, Archeologie, Boisgirard, Kunst der Antike, Antiquarium and Other Antiquities and Ancient Art Auction and Gallery Catalogue Group - 43 Titles
1989-2015 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
CHRISTIE'S: The Erlenmeyer Collection of Cretan Seals, London, 5 June 1989; The Erlenmeyer Collection of Ancient Near Eastern Stamp Seals and Amulets, London, 6 June 1989; A Private Collection of Important Greek Vases, London, 28 April 1993; The Jenkins Venus, London, 13 June 2002; The Surena Collection of Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals, New York, 11 June 2001; Important Antiquities from Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, London, 18 October 2005; SOTHEBY'S: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, Cranbrook Collections, 2-5 May 1972; The Stansfeld Collection of Ancient Art, New York, 2 December 1988; Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art, New York, 18 June 1991; The J.L. Theodor Collection, New York, 17 December 1998; CLAUDE BOISGIRARD: Archeologie Islam, 30 June-1 July 1993; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 29 June 1995; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 9 November 1995; Additif a la Vente du 15 Decembre 1995, Paris; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 2 October 1996; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 26 February 2003; Collection Bouvier, textiles D'Egypte A Divers, Arts D'Orient, Paris 26 June 2003; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 27 November 2009; Arts D'Orient, Paris, 5 June 2013; Archeologie, Collection Georges Halphen et a Divers, Paris, 8 December 1995; Archeologie, Collection Emile Brugsch Pacha et a Divers Amateurs, 1 October 1996; Archeologie, Paris, 25 May 1997; Archeologie, Paris, 29-30 March 1997; Archeologie, Collection de Monsieur R.B. a Geneve, Bronzes du Luristan et de la Caspienne, Paris, 7 November 1997; FRANCOIS DE RICOLES: Archeologie, Paris, 22-23 April 2001; DAVID GHEZELBASH ARCHEOLOGIE: Archeologie, Paris, 2007; Archeologie, Paris, 2008; Archeologie, Paris, 2011; GALERIE GUNTER PUHZE: Ancient Art, Freiburg, Katalog 22, 2008; Ancient Art, Freiburg, Katalog 23, 2009; Ancient Art, Freiburg, Katalog 24, 2010; Ancient Art, Freiburg, Katalog 25, 2011; Ancient Art, Freiburg, Katalog 29, 2015; PIERRE BERGE: Archeologie, Paris, 17 January 2009; Archeologie, Paris, 29 May 2013; JEAN-DAVID CAHN: Tiere und Mischwesen IV, Katalog 16, Basel 2004; Tiere und Mischwesen VII, Katalog 19, Basel 2007; Tiere und Mischwesen VIII, Katalog 20, Basel 2008; ANTIQUARIUM: The Good Life, Luxury Objects of the Ancient World, 1999; Ancient Treasures V; Ancient Treasures VII, 2009; Ancient Treasures VIII, 2010; Ancient Treasures X, 2012; Ancient Treasures XVI, 2017. 15.8 kg total, 26.7 x 20 - 28 x 22 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Books on Ancient and Classical Archaeology and Other Works of Art - 6 Titles
1977-2000 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
J.Aruz, A. Farkas, A. Alekseev, E. Korolkova, The Golden Deer of Eurasia, Scythian and Sarmatian treasures from the Russian Steppes, New York, 2000, pp.303, Full colour exhibition catalogue; J.C. Waldbaum, Metalwork from Sardis, Cambridge, 1983, pp.222, 67 B/W pls.; AA.VV., Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D., New York, 1977, pp.221, full colour catalogue of the Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; K. Reynolds Brown, Migration Art, A.D. 300-800, New York, 1995, pp.56, 12 col.pls., b/w ill.; R. Higgings, Tanagra and the figurines, Princeton, 1986, X colour plates, b/w ill.; V.Tatton-Brown, Cyprus BC, 7000 years of history, London, 1979, pp.117, b/w ill. 6.4 kg total, 25.5 x 19.8 - 31.5 x 24 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman. -
Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams and Other Chinese and Asian Art Auction Catalogue Group - 25 Titles
2014-2021 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
BONHAMS: Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 4 June 2015; Asian Art, London, 9 November 2015; Fine Chinese Art, London, 12 November 2015; Mandarin & Menagerie: CHRISTIE'S: The Sowell Collection and Chinese Export Art from Various Owners, New York, 26 January 2015; Art D'Asie, Paris, 9 June 2015; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, King Street, 10 November 2015; Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Textiles, South Kensington, 11 & 13 November 2015; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 22 March 2019; The Tibor Collection, New York, 10 April 2019; Chinese Art From the Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 12 September 2019; ARTCURIAL: Art D'Asie, Paris, 8 June 2015; BUKOWSKIS: Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art, The Bukowskis Autumn Classic Sale 2014; WANNENES: Asian Art, 15 December 2014; WOOLLEY & WALLIS: The Helen Espir Collection, Salisbury, 12 November 2014; LYON & TURNBULL: Fine Asian Works of Art, Cambridgeshire, 2 December 2014; SOTHEBY'S: Arts D'Asie, Paris, 11 December 2014; Important Chinese Works of Art, Hong Kong, 7 April 2015; Arts D'Asie, Paris, 10 June 2015; Important Chinese Art, London, 11 November 2015; Kangxi: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, Part II, new York, 19 March 2019; Important Chinese Art, new York, 20 March 2019; Saturday at Sotheby's; Asian Art, New York, 23 march 2019; Kangxi Porcelain - A Private Collection, New York, 22 September 2020; Important Chinese Art, New York, 17 March 2021; Important Chinese Art, New York, 22 April 2021. 22 kg total, 27 x 21 - 29.9 x 22.5 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.