May 22, 2003 - Sale 1972

Sale 1972 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ORIENTAL ART.) Thurston, Edgar; et al. Illustrations of Metal Work in Brass and Copper Mostly South Indian. From examples selected by Edgar Thurston, Velayuda Asari and W. S. Hadaway. 190 plates showing various Indian metalworks proposed as authorized designs for artisans pattern books. Thick large folio, 3/4 calf over gilt-lettered green cloth, vertical dampstain to spine, other scattered soiling; hinges reinforced, endpapers likely replaced; errata leaf tipped in. Reprinted by The Arts from the original 1913 edition. Madras, (1970)