21 APRIL 2005 MORNING SESSION AT 10.00 AM FURNITURE, SCULPTURE AND WORKS OF ART (LOTS 309-378) CERAMICS AND GLASS (LOTS 379-504) PROPERTY FROM THE GLENBOW MUSEUM, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND (Lots 309-326) The following eighteen lots formed part of the extensive militaria and European decorative arts collection assembled by Lucie and Joachim Schuller. The Schullers used their personal collection of family heirlooms, augmented by auction and private purchases, to build a first-rate collection during the first-half of the 20th Century. Spanning nearly five centuries, the collection of over 28,000 objects featured arms and armour from the 14th through the 17th Centuries. In the early 1950s, their collecting culminated in the opening of the Schuller Museum of Art and Chivalry, first near Belmont, and later near Laconia, New Hampshire. The Schullers marketed the collection as "The Million Dollar Show", and advertised the "largest collection of Japanese armour on exhibition in the world." Wishing to preserve the result of their life's work of collecting, they sold the collection to the Riveredge Foundation in 1973 and the museum was moved to Calgary. The Riveredge Collection was given to Glenbow Museum in 1979, and as the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in Canada, became the core of Glenbow's renowned Military History collection.

A pair of massive Regence style giltwood console tables

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of massive Regence style giltwood console tables
Late 19th Century
Each with later serpentine-fronted portoro marble top, above a pierced frieze carved with foliage, chutes, and swags, centred by a lion's mask, the Bacchic mask-headed cabriole legs joined by a stretcher centred by oak leaves and a military trophy, one inscribed to the reverse with museum inventory number R1945.729A, the other with R1945.729B
42¾ in. (108.6 cm.) high; 93½ in. (237.5 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep (2)

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