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 . DO NOT KEEP THIS INFORMATION FOR YOUR EYES ONLY ... LET YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES KNOW ABOUT THIS UNIQUE SALE : FORWARD THE MESSAGE . THEY MAY BE GREATLY THANKFUL . BEST REGARDS / F GODET