Lot 172

Eight Framed Works of Parrots and Partridges

Estimate: $500 - $700

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$100,000 $10,000

(British and Continental, 18th-20th century)

Four plates of parrots from Saverio Manetti, Storia naturale degli Uccelli.., Violanti Vanni, etcher, Florence, 1767-1776, sight 17 x 13-1/4 in,; neon painted frames, 18-3/4 x 15 x 3/4 in.; two after Isaac Spackman or George Edwards, a long tailed parakeet on a branch with an apple, Scarlet Macaw, 20th century copies, gouache on paper, 14 x 12 in; 18th century style frames, 17-3/8 x 15-1/2 x 1-7/8 in.; two after Edouard Travies (French, 1809-1868), Perdrix Rouge and La Caille, hand colored lithographs, cut, hand colored, and turned into reliefs, sight 12-1/2 x 16-1/4 in. 

Provenance: Property from the Collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger

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Property from the Collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger

Manetti parrots with toning, some foxing, stains, fading, not examined out of frames; Spackman parrots, one examined out of frame, laid down on card which is then mounted to cardboard backing; Travies reliefs with waviness, one bird loose and roaming around, not examined out of frames; frames with abrasions, losses, one with popped, loose corner