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Mai Trung Thu | LADY WITH A FAN
Description
Signed, stamped with the seal of the artist, inscribed in Chinese and dated
1933
Ink and gouache on silk, mounted on paper
56 by 58 cm; 22 by 22 3/4 in.
Auction
Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
From April 1, 2019 to April 1, 2019 in Hong Kong
[Art and architecture] | A COLLECTION OF TWENTY WORKS IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES, COMPRISING:
Description
Marryat, Joseph.
Collections towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain.
John Murray, 1850.
contemporary calf gilt, collector's bookplate;
Dore, Gustave (illustrator).
Spain by Jean Charles D'Avillier.
Bickers & Son, 1881.
pictorial cloth gilt;
Marillier, H.C.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. An Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life.
George Bell and Sons, 1899.
pictorial cloth gilt;
Gardner, J. Starkie.
English Ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries.
B.T. Batsford, 1911;
Jones, Sydney R.
The Village Homes of England.
The Studio Ltd., 1912;
Stratton, Arthur.
The English Interior: A Review of the Decoration of English Homes from the Tudor Times to the XIXth Century.
B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1920;
Carrington, John Bodman, Hughes, George Ravensworth.
The Plate of the Worshipful Company of the Goldsmiths.
Oxford: University Press, 1926;
Wilson, Mona.
The Life of William Blake.
The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
quarter vellum over marbled boards;
Chatterton, E. Keble.
Old Ship Prints.
John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1927;
Lloyd, Nathaniel.
A History of English Brickwork. H. Grevillie Montgomery, 1925;
Bainbridge, Henry Charles.
Peter Carl Faberge.
B.T. Batsford, 1949.
inscribed by the author, one of 1,750 copies;
Butler, A.S.G.
The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Country Life Limited, 1950.
3 volumes, dust-jackets,
minor soiling and chipping to dust-jacket
; [
with the additional volume]
Hussey, Christopher. The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Country Life Limited, 1950.
dust-jacket;
Jones, Barbara.
The Unsophisticated Arts.
The Architectural Press, 1951;
Hill, Oliver.
Scottish Castles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Country Life Limited, 1953;
Edwards, Ralph.
The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the late Georgian Period.
Country Life Limited, 1954.
3 volumes, second revised and enlarged edition, dust-jackets,
jackets worn and chipping;
Keynes, Geoffrey.
Blake's Pencil Drawings. Second Series. Nonesuch Press, 1956. patterned dust-jacket;
Baille, G.H., Clutton, C., Ilbert, C.A.
Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. E. & F.N. Spon Ltd., 1956. seventh edition, dust-jacket;
Entwisle, E.A.
A Literary History of Wallpaper. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1960;
Blake, William.
Illustrations to "The Grave".
Double Elephant Folio and Quarto Co., London, 1973;
Handbook of Coloured Ornament in the Historic Styles. B.T. Batsford;
various sizes and bindings (25)
Auction
Recollections of Places Past, Property from the Estate of Sir John and Lady Smith
From July 9, 2019 to July 9, 2019 in London
