Mortimer L. Schiff Collection
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Jacques Seligmann & Co
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content: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records
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content: Jacques Seligmann & Co. records / Series 2: Collectors Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-1947
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.jacqself, Subseries 2.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Arrangement is by subject heading and, thereafter, chronologically. This series has been scanned in entirety.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was contracted by John M. Schiff, son of American banker Mortimer L. Schiff, to handle the disposition of his father's vast collection of artwork. The 1937-1938 sale was arranged through the auction house of Christie's of London, as Germain Seligman believed that the type of artwork in the collection would generate more buyers in Europe than in the United States. The auction was held June 1938. The collection consisted of important oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Flemish, French, and German masters, English drawings and watercolors, Beauvais tapestries, Gothic and Renaissance sculpture and bronze, Chinese porcelains, Gothic and Renaissance arms and armor, and decorative arts. Included in the sale were a glazed terracotta, Madonna and Child , by Giovanni della Robbia, and Carlo Crivelli's Portrait. A collection of Italian majolica, not for sale, was lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibition.

This subseries consists of correspondence with Christie's, general correspondence regarding the collection, insurance policies, auction catalogs, clippings, lists, research notes, and photographs.