Antique American Furniture - Barrett Collection Catalog @ Christie's 1997

Description

The Collection of Kay and Richard Barrett.  Important American and English Furniture, Needlework and Decorative Arts.
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DISCUSSION:
The catalog to an auction held in New York at Christie's on June 17th, 1997. Sale 8704.  In 1953 Watertown, Connecticut's Waite House, built sometime before 1782, was scheduled to be demolished in favor of a new Post Office when the Barretts saved it by buying it and moving it, on six trucks, to Cincinnati, Ohio. They spent the next several decades furnishing it with antique American 18th century furniture and important collections of 17th and 18th century English needlework, 16th, 17th and 18th century brass candlesticks, and 18th century English pottery, metalware, and related "smalls". The catalog features an introduction by Dean Failey.
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DESCRIPTION & CONDITION:
Softcover. 8.5"x10.5", 145 pages, 337 lots, loaded with color and black & white illustrations. Covers with some light wear, a bit thumbed, minor soil.
Stock #40176
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