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Lot 45
Sale 4980 - Art and Design
Mar 8, 2023
6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$2,500 -
3,500
Price Realized
$4,725
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Lot Description
From the Library of Samuel Yellin Scrapbook of Second Empire and Belle Époque Ironwork, France, circa 1910
Anonymous assembler, 95 pages (unpaginated)
Large leather bound volume of French ironwork sketches, photographs, business cards, and handwritten notes in French
With approximately 145 hand-drawn pencil sketches and ink drawings of various sizes illustrating from small motif detail sections to full ironwork gate elevations
Illustrated examples primarily Parisian, with some from French regional cities and chateaux, and include trade and international exhibition displays
Designs included range from Haussmannian revival styles to late Art Nouveau