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The Collection of Aso O. Tavitian | New York ...

By STAIR

Mar 20, 2025

Set Reminder 2025-03-20 10:00:00 2025-03-20 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : The Collection of Aso O. Tavitian | New York & Stockbridge | Part II | March 20, 2025 https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/stair-galleries/the-collection-of-aso-o-tavitian-new-york-stockbridge-part-ii-march-20-2025-17469
STAIR is proud to present a three-day single-owner sale of property from the late Aso O. Tavitian on March 19, 20, and 21. A true connoisseur, Tavitian assembled an extraordinary collection of English furniture, decorative arts, European sculpture, and garden statuary. Each item in the collection was selected with the meticulous eye and refined sensibility that defined Tavitian’s approach to collecting. STAIR internetrequests@stairgalleries.com

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• Lot Description

  Including:

  A. F. Kendrick: Catalogue of Tapestries;

  Institut de France: Les Fastes de la Tapisserie, in French;

  H. Schmitz: The Vienna Collection of Tapestries, limited edition of 100;

  Art Institute of Chicago: Masterpieces of French Tapestry, exhibition March 17 - May 5, 1948;

  Lotus Stack (ed.): Conservation Research: Studies of Fifteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Tapestry;

  Clifford M. Brown and Guy Delmarcel: Tapestries for the Courts of Federico II, Ercole, and Ferrante Gonzaga 1522-63;

  H. C. Marillier: English Tapestries of the Eighteenth Century;

  Helen Churchill Candee: The Tapestry Book (two copies);

  George Leland Hunter: Tapestries: Their Origin, History and Renaissance.

  The largest 12 x 9 in. (10).

  Condition

  Individual condition report not available for this lot. All items in fair to good condition.

  Notwithstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.

• Provenance

  Sold Sotheby's, New York, September 28-29, 2004, Lot 15 (part).

  The Collection of Aso O. Tavitian - New York & Stockbridge.

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