A catalogue of a collection of modern pictures & drawings, engravings, etchings and books, the properties of G.C. Ashton Jonson, Esq. ... and from other sources ..
An auction catalogue issued in London in 1923 by the auctioneers Robinson, Fisher & Harding, offering pictures, drawings, engravings, etchings and books from the collection of G.C. Ashton Jonson and other sources for sale to private buyers and dealers. The photographs show lot numbers under furniture and decorative objects, including a marquetry console table with gilt mounts, a commode flanked by ormolu candelabra, and a Louis XVI style console with a mirror and putti candlesticks. A designer might take the ornate gilt-bronze mounts, marble tops and classical swags and rosettes as period decorative vocabulary.
