Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian, Persian, and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios Forming the Private Collection of the Widely Known Artist and Connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, All of Which Has Been Removed from his Late Residence, No. 7 East 10th Street
New York: The American Art Association, 1922. Original. Softcover. Beige wraps with black lettering. Unpaginated with approx. 85 pp. and no illus. VG, clean and bright interior but with two museum ex-lib. blind stamps. Covers worn but intact and with a small lib. sticker to front cover. Item #147563
With a prefatory note (from a letter by) De Forest, about the collection. Catalogue of 541 items sold at auction on November 24 and 25, 1922. Included are 164 Hindu Temple Brasses; Bidre Ware; 100 pieces of arms and armor; 127 Hindu brass and copper vessels; 30 carved and inlaid mother-of-pearl circassian walnut chest front panels; Italian Renaissance Repousse copper vessels found in India; Syro-Damascan inlaid and carved walnut bridal chests and panels for chest fronts of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries; 16th, 17th, 18th-century Syro-Damascan cared doors, overdoors and panels; and Samarkand and Serrebend carpets. Thomas Kirby was auctioneer.
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