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Gurney MSS 2.17
Titre
Sotheby's Auctions and Phillips Auction
Date(s)
- 1921 - 1997 (Production)
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1 folder
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(1911-2001)
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Sotheby's Auctions and Phillips Auction:
Receipt of private sale of lot 202 from Sotheby's (7 May 1980).
Watercolour "Shoulder of Ben Hee" by John Pedder:
- Note regarding the watercolour (31 May 1983).
- Correspondence from Bing, Michael at Sotheby's regarding the watercolour (1 letter / 6 June 1983).
- Recommendation for sale of watercolour (9 June 1983).
- Property receipt for watercolour (14 June 1983).
- Agreed reserve for watercolour (30 August 1983).
- Receipt for watercolour (30 August 1983).
- Settlement statement for watercolour (30 September 1983).
17th century cope hood:
- Recommendation for sale and property receipt from Sotheby's of 17th century cope hood (28 November 1983), with Gurney's handwritten note "asked for it back 12/5/84".
Wooded river landscape in the style of Edward Charles Williams:
- Correspondence from Williams, E. at Sotheby's (1 letter / 1 December 1983).
- Recommendation for sale of painting (22 December 1983).
- Receipt (16 February 1984).
- Receipt (23 February 1984).
Five ancient Egyptian pottery vessels:
- Correspondence to/from Sotheby's detailing Gurney's sale of the vessels, which had been presented to his parents in 1912 by his uncle Professor John Garstang after an excavation (3 letters / 17 April 1988 - 27 April 1988).
- Property contract for the sale of the vessels (26 May 1988).
- Recommendation for the sale of the vessels (10 June 1988).
- Details of agreed reserve for the vessels (12 December 1988).
Correspondence from Forge, Oliver at Sotheby's (1 letter / 4 January 1989).
Sale no. 27539 (Scripophily & Paper Money):
- Receipt of sale from Phillips (2 February 1989).
- Details of lot numbers from Phillips (2 February 1989).
Offprint/Photocopy:
- Sotheby Sale Catalogue (Catalogue of the Amherst Collection of Egyptian & Oriental Antiquities), London (13-17 June 1921), p. 74-79 ("Objects from Tell El Amarna").
Newspaper articles:
- Alberge, Dalya and Daniel McGrory, "Smuggled art clampdown by Sotheby's", ? (17 December 1997), p. ?.
- Farrell, Stephen, Dalya Alberge, Jill Sherman and Richard Owen, "Sotheby's suspends second employee: DTI inquiry into London art market", ? (7 February 1997), p. ?.
- Farrell, Stephen, "Secrets of the chandelier bids", The Times, (7 February 1997), p. 17.
- Watson, Peter, "Sotheby's must show it is clean", ? (3 March 1997), p. 20.
- ? , "A reasonable bid: Sotheby's imperfect inquiry has still yielded worthwhile results", The Times, (17 December 1997), p. ?.
- ?, "Art and Craft: How Sotheby's can clear its name", ? (7 February 1997), p. ?.
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