Catalogue of a very fine collection of old English furniture : comprising Chippendale and other bookcases, writing and card tables, escritoires, chest of drawers, sets of dining-room chairs, glasses in carved and gilt Chippendale frames, trays and screens, inlaid and painted satin-wood cabinets, card, pier and work tables, boxes and vases for knives, inlaid mahogany and walnut cabinets, clocks, tables, &c. : also, the President's Chair of The Cauliflower Club, a fine specimen of Chippendale's work : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Wednesday, May 27, 1874, at one o'clock precisely.

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Creator:: Christie, Manson & Woods
Title(s):: Catalogue of a very fine collection of old English furniture : comprising Chippendale and other bookcases, writing and card tables, escritoires, chest of drawers, sets of dining-room chairs, glasses in carved and gilt Chippendale frames, trays and screens, inlaid and painted satin-wood cabinets, card, pier and work tables, boxes and vases for knives, inlaid mahogany and walnut cabinets, clocks, tables, &c. : also, the President's Chair of The Cauliflower Club, a fine specimen of Chippendale's work : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, at their Great Rooms, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Wednesday, May 27, 1874, at one o'clock precisely.
Published/Created:: [London] : [Printed by W. Clowes and Sons], 1874.
Physical Description:: 14 pages ; 25 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N4 v. 4 no.24
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15962857
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Place of sale: London.
Date of sale: May 27,1874.
BAC: British Art Center copy is annotated in graphite with sale prices for some lots. Number 24 of 33 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary quarter roan; with the armorial bookplate of Rupert Gunnis; with a manuscript index of catalogs in the volume on the front endpapers. Illegible inscription on title page.
Subject Terms:: Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Chippendale, Thomas, 1718–1779
Decorative objects -- Catalogs.
Furniture -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Contributors:: William Clowes and Sons, printer.
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