Auction on
23 October 2019 - 15:30 (CEST) -
Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
With books, drawings, sundials, Normandy silverware and more, we are talking serious quantities, here: for this former President of the Bar seems to have a boundless taste for art.
Jean-François Jobart (the Elder), Valognes, 1730-1748, pair of toiletry boxes in silver with a decoration of intertwined foliage and birds, engraved with quartered arms surmounted with an earl's coronet, diam. 12.7. h. 7.3 cm. Estimate: €60,000/100,000
Jean-François Jobart (the Elder), Valognes, 1730-1748, pair of toiletry boxes in silver with a decoration of intertwined foliage and birds, engraved with quartered arms surmounted with an earl's coronet, diam. 12.7. h. 7.3 cm. Estimate: €60,000/100,000
"From my earliest childhood, I grew up with a love for the objects surrounding me and the art of collecting them," says Jean-Claude Delauney in a long preface to the catalogues for this sale. The man who started it all off was his great-grandfather, Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), who devoted his leisure time to studying prehistory, archaeology and the fine arts. At his death eight sales of books, coins, prints and autographs were staged, mainly in Paris. The last, held at Drouot on 5 February 1951, was devoted to modern paintings, drawings, pastels, gouaches and watercolours. The numerous groups now being…
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