Ladies and Gentlemen


We have the great pleasure of announcing the opening of our new WEB site
for :
Francis BRIEST Auctioneer / Paris

http://www.sillage.com/briest

Where you will find the catalogues of the next auctions sales

June 20th 1997 The Louis COTINAT Collection

The Louis Cotinat collection is one of the most important European private
collections of earthenware and pharmaceutical objects .
Louis Cortinat , a Parisian pharmacist from 1914 to 1996, gathered more
than 200
items of a very rare quality .This collection displays his huge
encyclopaedic
curiosity about ceramics and his strict sense of quality and exhaustivity .
All great French and Italian ceramics centres from the 16th and 18thare
present in
the collection . Among the most remarkable items is the famous Toscan
Arbarello
vase
made around 1500 as well as some pots attributed to the Daniel Ollivier
workshop
in Montpellier , France , aroud 1600 .

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THEY MAY BE GREATLY THANKFUL .

BEST REGARDS / F GODET