Lot Essay
The Charvet collection of ancient glass today forms a part of the ancient glass collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Details
FROEHNER, W., LA VERRERIE ANTIQUE: DESCRIPTION DE LA COLLECTION CHARVET
Paris, 1879. With lithographic frontispiece and 34 lithographic plates (nos 29 and 33 missing), hand coloured, additional vignettes within text, limited to 150 copies of which this is number 77, Ex Libris Ray Winfield Smith, plates generally clean, plates XXX-XXXII spotted and browned, text spotted and browned, marginal waterstain towards end of text
Paris, 1879. With lithographic frontispiece and 34 lithographic plates (nos 29 and 33 missing), hand coloured, additional vignettes within text, limited to 150 copies of which this is number 77, Ex Libris Ray Winfield Smith, plates generally clean, plates XXX-XXXII spotted and browned, text spotted and browned, marginal waterstain towards end of text
Provenance
Ray Winfield Smith, whose ancient glass collection was published and exhibited at The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, in 1957.
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