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Property From The
                        India House Collection



                                                       New York


                                                     (Lots 401-405)



                         India House is bound by every tradition with the adventurers of all ages
                         who went down to the sea in ships.




                     Christie’s is honored to sell the art collection of India   in spirit, purpose and atmosphere, where those interested
                     House, a private club that has been a fixture of downtown   in  rebuilding  a  merchant  marine  worthy  of  American
                     Manhattan since the early twentieth century. The Club’s   could meet.” In this vein, many leaders in foreign trade   PROPERTY FROM THE INDIA HOUSE CLUB COLLECTION, NEW YORK
                     Renaissance style building was constructed by builder   and  worldwide  commerce  have  since  gathered  at  India   401
                     Richard Carman after the fire of 1835 and, previously   House, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins,      A BRONZE FIGURE OF ACHALA
                     housing Hanover Bank, Maitland and Company, the New   Henry Morgenthau, Jr., James Byrnes, W. Averell Harriman,     TIBET, 14TH CENTURY                             西藏   十四世紀   銅不動明王像
                     York Cotton Exchange and W.R. Grace and Company,   George C. Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge and Cyrus Vance.                                                           來源:
                     the edifice has remained essentially unchanged since   Their meetings were held alongside India House’s world-      6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) high                          Willard D. Straight (1880-1918年) 珍藏,入藏於1914年前。
                     its construction. Founded in 1914 by James A. Farrell   class collection of maritime art and objects. First begun by   $5,000-7,000
                     and Willard Straight, India House was conceived as a   Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight, the art collection
                     meeting place for the interests for foreign trade and its   grew to encompass marine pictures, model ships, maritime   PROVENANCE:
                                                                                                                                         Willard D. Straight (1880-1918) Collection, acquired prior to 1914.
                     name paid homage to the Dutch West India Company,   relics and Chinese works of art, which gave the club its
                     the first colonizers of Manhattan. Farrell and Straight   stately atmosphere and reminded members and guests of     LITERATURE:
                     envisioned that “New York should have a place, maritime   its purpose.                                              Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24655.
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