Estate of an Italian Connoisseur, the Late Giuseppe Rossi Collection, Set 4 Vol

Sotheby's New York: Property From the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra Volume III, November 4, 2005. First Edition softcover catalogue on European Furniture and Fine & Decorativ...

The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings; Volume III: Bolognese and Emilian Schools by Michael Jaffé. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 1994. 1st...

The Chronicle of a Family, by Clemence Dane. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928. 1st Ed hardcover of four novelettes, two of...

The Wrightsman collection, Vols. I-V. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966-1973. First edition hardcovers with dust jackets. 2248 pp. Inscribed by the Wrightsmans. The complete series of The Wrightsman collection catalogues from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, who, in a relatively short period of time—beginning in 1952—amassed the finest private collection in America of the decorative arts of the Ancien Régime (15th c until 1792). Throughout the years the Wrightsmans' active interest in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts has resulted in splendid gifts that have enabled the Museum to create an unparalleled and truly encyclopaedic collection of French 18th c...

Pavlovsk: Volume 2 The Collections by Emmanuel Ducamp. Published by Alain de Gourcuff, Paris, 1993. 1st Ed hardcover. The most authoritative work on Pavlovsk in English. A stunningly photographed book, conveying the beauty of this Russian treasure. It focuses entirely on the art and architecture of Pavlovsk, the 18th-century palace near St. Petersburg built for the Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and his wife, Maria Feodorovna...

The Leverhulme collection: Thornton Manor, Wirral Merseyside, Volume One and Two, 26, 27, 28 June 2001. London: Sotheby's, 2001. Softcover. Volume one 325 lots on 431 pp., Volume two 961 lots on 701 pp. All lots photographed in color and fully described. Fine Art and antiques that were collected by the Lever family, one of Britain’s most prominent and philanthropic dynasties of industrialists. Includes highly important English Furniture and part of his celebrated collection of 19th century British Paintings. Also includes Old Master and early British Pictures...

A painted English miniature nest of drawers from the late 19th-early 20th century. This exquisite English miniature brown colored nest of drawers features five drawers with two cubby...

A delightful Regency Period burr oak miniature chest having Superbly figured top above two short & three long drawers with Original brass knobs flanked by elegant fluted stiles raised on Original brass ball feet (Often much debate is had as to whether miniature furniture was made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who is looking for a job at a workshop would create something to showcase their talents, or whether it was made as a travelling salesmans sample piece, which is when a few articles were made as scale models in advance of a road trip during which the salesman would travel the country showing prospective clients the kind of items they could produce back at the workshop and take orders from. This particular miniature chest of drawers is probably the latter and would have been made as a sample piece. The construction is exquisite and the attention to tiny detail phenomenal in all honesty. They work that would have gone into constructing this with all of its fine details would actually have been more of a challenge and taken a more skilled craftsmen than its full size counterparts would have done. It is also super quality and unusual being constructed from burr oak which has taken on an exceptional rich colour and patina over the years of its life. A really quite charming piece of antique miniature furniture...

Pair of Paul McCobb storage cabinets / chests / dressers from the Connoisseur Collection manufactured by H. Sacks and Sons, 1950s. Professionally refinished in the recent past. Very ...

This uniquely designed Italian chest of drawers, from the late 18th-early 19th century, is perhaps one of the most beautiful pieces of furniture to pass through our doors! This antiq...

A beautiful facsimile copy of what is probably the most famous book ever on the subject of furniture. This book is a facsimile of the Chippendale society's own fine copy. Despite i...

The Commode of Rare Classical Neoclassical Form, with a beautiful warm color is a wonderful example of perspective marquetry, in the tradition of Giuseppe Maggiolini and his pupil Giovanni Maffezzoli; most likely made by Tommaso Pezzoni (who learned his trade in the workshop of Maffezzoli) in the early 19th century. Inlaid top with a center-roundel showing a youth reclining on a chaise in front of a classical temple, above four drawers, the fronts forming an architectural, perspective scene showing buildings and ruins, fountains, sculptures and a boy resting on a toppled column accompanied by a playing dog, flanked by caryatids topped with gilt bronze classical heads and ending in gilt bronze feet. The sides featuring medallions with urns. Intricate inlaid borders framing each scene. Square inlaid block feet. Constructed of solid walnut and inlaid with various exotic woods (including olive wood, boxwood, amaranth, palm wood). For a very similar commode see: Enrico Colle, "Italian Empire Furniture...