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January 22nd 1924

Wm. R. Hearst, Esq.,
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
New York

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List of Objects you have under consideration
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2616/9420.- A very beautiful and important Gothic tapestry, showing numerous personages, representing a Vintage scene. A nobleman, his wife and their family are watching the grape-gatherers. To the right two pages nibbling the grapes; next a nobleman in a red robe with his wife carrying a pug-dog under her arm. In front, a couple walking. The grape-gatherers pass in front of the nobleman. To the left, the making of the wine and selling in exchange for pieces of gold. A horse is carrying off a cask, a donket a basket of grapes. French work of the middle of the 15th century, probably of the Burgundy region. This tapestry comes from the Aynard collection, in Lyons. It is one of the most ancient examples known of these tapestries showing rustic subjects, which became frequent half a century later. According to certain authors, the cartoon is the work of Loisot-Leydet, painter and miniaturist to Philip-the-Good, who died in 1456.
Described in "Les Arts"& September 1913. Was exhibited at the "Exposition de la Croix Rouge" in 1913.
Reproduced in Heinrich Gobel's book "Wandteppiche".
This tapestry has some repairs, especially in the lower part.
Height: 11'4'. Width: 17' 8"

2385.- A very beautiful statue, the finest example known of the art of the end of the 15th beginning of the 16th century, in marble of Salins, representing a woman holding a chalice in her left hand. Her cloak is lined with ermine and trimmed with sumptuous embroideries representing towers. Her hair falls over her shoulders to the middle of her back.
This statue represents Santa Barbara and is most probably the portrait of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a]] queen.
Some art critics think it the work of a Franco-Flemish artist. We personally think it is the work of a Frenchman, and we guarantee that it was made between 1495 and 1520.
Comes from the collection of the painter Van Marcke, from Brussels.

2667/9355.- A very exceptional Italian bas-relief in enamelled earthenware around 1500, representing in the center a seated virgin, and on both sides angels in high relief, on a blue and yellow ground. Around is a decoration of fruit and leaves.
According to some Italian art experts, this piece is one of the finest specimens of the Abbia type and so distibctly under the influence of Verrocchio that it can be attributed to Giovanni della Robbia or to Buglioni.
Two parts of the border have been repaired somme hundred years ago, also some repairs on the blue ground, but none of the figures are damaged.