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Veuve Raymond Serrure (forename unknown)

fl. 1901

Numismatics and antiquities firm, active in 1901. Consigned to Auguste-Emile Boysset; worked with Maurice Delestre.

Life and work

  1. 6 March 1901 – 7 March 1901
    Named as the firm ('Ve Raymond Serrure Antiquités - Numismatique') on the catalogue of the Drouot sale 'Collection formée en Chypre', 6-7 March 1901 (the Boysset collection); the sale was held at the Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, rue Drouot. Lot 3, a Base Ring female figurine with child said to be from Alambra, is recorded in the auctioneer's record as bought by the Louvre for 46 francs, though never accessioned there; it is now in the Musée de Sèvres.

    ParisMerrillees 1992

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Base Ring female figurine with child (lot 3, Collection formée en Chypre)

    From Alambra (per the catalogue)Musée de Sèvres 106873March 1901Merrillees 1992

Sources

  1. 1.Robert S. Merrillees (1992). “A Late Cypriote figurine with child from the Boysset Collection (now Sèvres Museum)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 18, 3-7. Online
  2. 2.Hôtel Drouot (1901). Collection formée en Chypre. Paris.
  3. 3.Raymond Serrure (1862-1899), numismate (Wikidata/GND authority record). Online