CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF JEWELS AND PRECIOUS WORKS OF ART, G.C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D. Compiled at the request of J. Pierpont Morgan, London: Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, by Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London, 7th May, 1910, 183 pages Large quatro (380 x 310 x 75 mm). Title printed in red and black, with 94 mounted illustrations and 46 hand-coloured facsimiles, of original red morocco gilt, surrounded by swirling gilt tolled floral sprays, red watered silk liners with gilt border and gilt edges Limited edition: number 16 of 40 copies printed on Japanese vellum. The objets d'art illustrated include rings, rosaries and rosary beads, reliquaries, necklaces, pendant jewels, silver and niello medallions, portrait medallions, ivory and enamelled caskets, buttons, seals, chalices, cups, perfume bottle, vases, clocks, a cabinet and a chest of drawers. With statements inside: This Edition, printed on Japanese vellum, with hand-coloured Facsimiles, consists of 40 copies, and is for private circulation only. This is copy No. 16 "The whole of the plates of this book have been engraved by Hallet Hyatt, of 111, Oxford Street, London. All the photographs have been taken by him, and the whole of the hand-coloured facsimiles were painted under his supervision." Together with a Parke-Bernet Galleries catalogue for the "Property from the Estate of the Late J.P.Morgan, Sold by the Order of the Executors", New York, Tuesday, March 21, 1944, 57 pages, which included color plate books-general and literature-books on birds: an extensive series of the J.P. Morgan catalogues of books, miniatures, watches, bronzes, manuscripts, jewels, paintings, imperial Russian service, etc.
CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF JEWELS AND PRECIOUS WORKS OF ART, G.C. WILLIAMSON, LITT.D. Compiled at the request of J. Pierpont Morgan, London: Privately printed at the Chiswick Press, by Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London, 7th May, 1910, 183 pages Large quatro (380 x 310 x 75 mm). Title printed in red and black, with 94 mounted illustrations and 46 hand-coloured facsimiles, of original red morocco gilt, surrounded by swirling gilt tolled floral sprays, red watered silk liners with gilt border and gilt edges Limited edition: number 16 of 40 copies printed on Japanese vellum. The objets d'art illustrated include rings, rosaries and rosary beads, reliquaries, necklaces, pendant jewels, silver and niello medallions, portrait medallions, ivory and enamelled caskets, buttons, seals, chalices, cups, perfume bottle, vases, clocks, a cabinet and a chest of drawers. With statements inside: This Edition, printed on Japanese vellum, with hand-coloured Facsimiles, consists of 40 copies, and is for private circulation only. This is copy No. 16 "The whole of the plates of this book have been engraved by Hallet Hyatt, of 111, Oxford Street, London. All the photographs have been taken by him, and the whole of the hand-coloured facsimiles were painted under his supervision." Together with a Parke-Bernet Galleries catalogue for the "Property from the Estate of the Late J.P.Morgan, Sold by the Order of the Executors", New York, Tuesday, March 21, 1944, 57 pages, which included color plate books-general and literature-books on birds: an extensive series of the J.P. Morgan catalogues of books, miniatures, watches, bronzes, manuscripts, jewels, paintings, imperial Russian service, etc.
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