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[Abby Green Antiques, Mariaplaats 45, 3511 LL Utrecht, Holland] Wooden relief of a marten raiding a robin's nest by Jean Demontreuil. circa 1793. 17 in (43 cm) 14 1/2 in (37 cm)
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[Bonham's, 101 New Bond Street, London, UK] Paolo de Matteis (Cliento 1662 - 1728 Naples) The Triumph of Galatea, oil on canvas 125 x 97cm (49 1/4 x 38 1/8in).
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[Dover Street Art Gallery, 13 Dover Street, London, UK] Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino. Active Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, with God the Father Above Tempera on popular panel, with an arched top, 40⅛ by 20½ in, 101.9 by 52.1 cm
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] A bowl of flowers, by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636-1699). Signed. Oil on canvas, 86.3 x 106.6 cm.
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] An important massive Flight, Barr & Barr Worcester vase. English, circa 1820-25
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] Cornelis Jacobsz, Delff, (1571-1643) Still Life of Kitchen Utensils Oil on panel, 75 x 105 cm
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] How Now Spirit, Whither Wander You? Puck Mocking Three Wood Nymphs, by Arthur Rackham, 1923. Signed and dated. Oil on board, 48.3 x 34.3 cm
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] Two figures in front of an Amada, attributed to Lazzaro Tavarone (Genoa 1556-1641 Genoa). Pen and brown ink over black chalk with brown wash.
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[Hill-Stone Incorporated, Park Avenue, New York, New York] Claude Lorrain Lorraine 1600 - 1682 Rome Le soleil levant (Harbour Scene with rising sun) Etching; 1634. Mannocci 15, the rare fourth state of eight before the addition of the date
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[Rafael Valls Limited, 11 Duke Street and 6 Ryder Street, London, UK] Ludolf Backhuysen (1631-1708) The IJ in Amsterdam with a Fluyt and Men O'War Oil on canvas: 44.5 x 58.8 cms. Signed.
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[Sam Fogg, 35 St. George Street, London, UK] A detail from a panel of stained glass by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1520
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[Stern Pissarro Gallery, 46 Ledbury Road, London, UK] Yvon (Vey) Pissarro. Farmhands, Pencil drawing, 80 x 120cm, Signed lower centre
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] A Japanese bronze group of combatant Sumurai. Meiji period, circa 1880. Height: 35 cm.
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] qAn underglaze blue charger. Arita, Edo period Japan, circa 1680.
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[Paul Champkins, 41 Dover Street, London, UK] A fine standing pottery figure of a court lady wearing long elaborate robes covered in a rich sancai glaze. The feet enclosed in curled upturning slippers. Chinese, Tang Dynasty 618-906 AD. Height: 38 cm (15 in).
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[Paul Champkins, 41 Dover Street, London, UK] A fine standing pottery figure of a court lady. Chinese, Tang Dynasty, 618-906 AD. Height: 38 cm
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Joseph with Jacob in Egypt, By Jacopo Pontormo. Probably 1518. Panel, 96.5 by 109.5cm. (National Gallery, London)
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[Exh. The Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, UK] A gilt and polychrome sculpture in oak from an Antwerp altar-piece. Flemish, 1500. Height: 37 cm.
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[Prestel (printers) advertisement] Glass Art Reflections of the Centuries Helmut Ricke A valuable resource covering all periods of glass from pre-history to the present, this magnificent book is a catalogue of the world-famous collection of the Glasmuseum Hentrich in Düsseldorf's Museum Kunst Palast.
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[Prestel (printers) advertisement] The Raft of the Medusa Géricault, Art, and Race Albert Alhadeff In this dramatic re-examination of one of the most influential paintings of the Romantic era, the author shows how Géricault's seminal canvas was one of the first uses in European art of a black figure to symbolize the hopes of all humanity.
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[Yale University Press advertisement] Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 Barbara Buhler Lynes With essays by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore The exotic South African calla lily, introduced in the United States during the second half of the 19th-century, became a recurring motif in works by important painters and photographers, particulary Georgia O'Keeffe who depicted the flower so many times and in such provocative ways that by the early 1930s she became known as 'the lady of the lilies'. This gorgeous book features 54 paintings, photographs and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940, and an introduction by the esteemed O'Keeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes.
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[Yale University Press advertisement] Marsden Hartley Edited by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer and pioneer of American modernism. This superbly illustrated book encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of Hartley's creative output.
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[Yale University Press advertisement] Millet to Matisse 19- and 20-Century French Paintings from Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Glasgow Edited by Vivien Hamilton The City of Glasgow possesses an internationally-renowned collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This magnificent book, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features 64 of the finest paintings in this collection, providing a short essay on each work as well as full catalogue details.
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