Put on your overcoat and button up those galoshes. Auctioning off the contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey England at two o’clock sharp at 489 Park Avenue in town. Mother having bought a new manse in Tuxedo Park on the cheap but needing it decorated up by Christmas. From 1927.

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The Drawing Room, Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England. Page 9 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/n9/mode/1up
26. CUSHION COVERED WITH VENETIAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BROCATELLE; Architecture and landscape in silver thread and silks. 27. PAIR OF CUSHIONS WITH ELIZABETHAN CREWEL WORK; In multi-colored silks on a gray-green ground. 28. CUSHION WITH STUART CREWEL WORK; In green, orange-red and yellow on a cream linen ground.  Page 15 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/n15/mode/1up
58. LOW SIX-LEGGED FIRESIDE GENCH BENCH COVERED WITH ISPAHAN VELVET EMBROIDERY; The latter, 17th century. The moulded “S’ scroll supports in the Stuart taste are of comparatively modern workmanship. The cover is worked in silver and gold thread and colors in flower and bird arabesques placed in ogives, on a brilliant scarlet velvet ground. Formal borders to the right and left.  Page 20 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/n20/mode/1up
72. MAHOGANY TRIPOD CENTRE TABLE WITH ILLUMINATED TOP. English, ca. 1820. On three scrolled and voluted supports; bold spirally twisted centre stem. The circular top with broad member contains a delightful series of architectural views of Rome painted on slate. The centre dominated by a view of Saint Peter’s in an oval medallion surrounded converging panels with views of antique and Renaissance Rome.  Page 25 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/n25/mode/1up
104. WALNUT MERIDIENNE OF THE LOUIS QUINZE PERIOD. French, ca. 1770. Of imaginative form. The back with upholstery in wavily mounded and attenuated shield-shaped frame sloping downwards to the left. The seven scroll-foot supports connected by moulded serpentined rails. One foot restored. Loose down cushion seat.  Page 35 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/35/mode/1up
189. TWO VENETIAN BRONZE POLE LANTERNS ON STRANDS. Italian, Late 17th century. A handsome pair composed of gadroon bulbous members upon which are placed six putti bodies as if on clouds. The hexagonal body with scrolled ear-brackets glazed at a more recent date. The gadrooned domes also simulating clouds with winged amorini heads and turreted gadroon finial with pennants bearing the lion of Saint Mark. The pole is covered with contemporary crimson brocatelle and furnished with a florally chased member. The moulded, arched and three-sided bases covered with crimson brocatelle of more recent date.  Page 76 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/76/mode/1up
254. ORMOLU PLATEAU OF THE EMPIRE PERIOD. An important table centre after Thomire, with broad band in classical taste surmounted by grapevine arabesques in continuous border intersectioned by rectangular panels with Bacchic masks and grapevine festoons. On lion’s-claw supports.  Page 117 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/117/mode/1up
270. MAGNIFICENT EIGHTEEN-LIGHT ROCK CRYSTAL CHANDELIER. French, mid-18th century. The scroll arms carrying candle holders are placed in two tiers; the arms surrounded by rock crystal beads and furnished with diamond-cut and pear-shaped pendants, some cut and some of solid rock crystal. The bottom with large orb cut with oval discs; the upper part composed of two lyre-shaped scroll compositions, each terminating in marguerite rosettes and also furnished with a variety of crystal pendants. This chandelier furnished the library at Woodlea.  Page 133 of ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN ANTIQUE FURNITURE; BEAUVAIS AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES, REGENCE BOISERIE AND OBJETS D’ART. The contents of Woodlea, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, chiefly collected by the late LORD GRIMTHORPE.  THE ANDERSON GALLERIES, 489 Park Avenue at Fifty-Ninth Street, New York. January 16, 1927.  Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/englishfrenchita00ande/page/133/mode/1up

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