$732
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. 4 parts bound in 8 volumes. Folio, half green morocco over blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered and decorated in compartments with fleurs-de-lys, five raised bands, t.e.g. First edition, with 268 photographic plates, 12 in color and the rest sepia-toned, mounted to linen hinges, illustrating Hoentschel's significant collection of furniture, statues, tapestries and bronzes, from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth-century. The collection was purchased by J. P. Morgan, who donated it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The collection became the foundation for the museum's Department of European Decorative Arts. An exhibition of the collection has been planned for 2013. A fine set, with boards recently refurbished.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-11-15
