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Comte R.-C. Chandon de Briailles

fl. 1953–1959 · France

French collector and donor, active 1953–1959. Gave to Bibliothèque nationale; left a bequest to Bibliothèque nationale, cabinet des Médailles.

Life and work

  1. 1953–1959
    Collector whose Oriental, Syro-Hittite and Cypriot engraved gems went to the Bibliothèque nationale in 1953; his coins, including a Salamis-type drachm of Demetrios Poliorketes, were sold in 1959.

    Bibliothèque nationale (France), Enrichissements de la Bibliothèque nationale de 1945 à 1960 : dons et acquisitions : [exposition], Paris, [Bibliothèque nationale, 5 avril-5 juin] 1960 (1960), p. 78

  2. 1953
    Bequeathed to the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale in 1953 a sgraffito plate of the 13th–14th century attributed to Cyprus.

    1992, Byzance, От Публучните Френски Колекции

  3. 1953
    Bequeathed a ceramic plate (catalogue no. 385, attributed to Cyprus, 2nd half of 13th–14th century) to the Paris collection, by legacy of 1953.

    Byzance Album 1992 (1992)

  4. 1953
    Bequeathed (legs, 1953) the glazed sgraffito plate C. V. 385, attributed to Cyprus (?), to the Bibliothèque nationale, cabinet des Médailles.

    1992, Byzance, От Публучните Френски Колекции

  5. 1953
    Bequeathed (legs, 1953) a Cypriot(?) sgraffito plate, catalogued as no. 385, later held in the Paris Bibliothèque nationale cabinet des Médailles.

    1992, Byzance, От Публучните Френски Колекции

  6. Undated
    Owner of a cream jasper scarab (Type F, item 6/X18) in the Paris, BN collection, listed in this catalogue.

    John Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs: A catalogue and study (2003), p. 35

  7. Undated
    Owned stamp seal of the same group (Anatolian/Aramaic-type inscribed seal), housed in the National Library in Paris

    Edward Lipiński, Itineraria Phoenicia (2004), p. 132

  8. Undated
    Owned Nicopolis-type bronze coin of Antoninus Pius with Marcus Aurelius Caesar, Paris example catalogued under Cyprus

    Dario Calomino, Nicopolis d'Epiro: Nuovi studi sulla zecca e sulla produzione monetale (2011), p. 253

  9. Undated
  10. Undated
    Bequeathed a Cypriot(?) sgraffito plate of the second half of the 13th–14th century, which was later held by the Bibliothèque nationale.

    Byzance, L Art Byzantin 1992

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Sources

  1. 1.Bibliothèque nationale (France), Enrichissements de la Bibliothèque nationale de 1945 à 1960 : dons et acquisitions : [exposition], Paris, [Bibliothèque nationale, 5 avril-5 juin] 1960 (1960).
  2. 2.John Boardman, Classical Phoenician Scarabs: A catalogue and study (2003).
  3. 3.Edward Lipiński, Itineraria Phoenicia (2004).
  4. 4.Dario Calomino, Nicopolis d'Epiro: Nuovi studi sulla zecca e sulla produzione monetale (2011).
  5. 5.[Monnaies grecques, romaines, françaises et étrangères provenant de collections particulières [Vente Chandon de Briailles]] (1959).
  6. 6.1992, Byzance, От Публучните Френски Колекции.
  7. 7.Byzance Album 1992 (1992).
  8. 8.Byzance, L Art Byzantin 1992.

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