Christie's Fine Antiquities | 26 November 1980 | CATALOGUE

This auction catalogue records a sale of fine antiquities conducted in December 1982, illustrating the institutional and commercial frameworks of the international art market in the early 1980s. It offers a systematically organized listing of artefacts, likely spanning classical Mediterranean, Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures, each entry supported by concise scholarly descriptions, provenance references, and pre-sale estimates. As a form of non-fiction documentation, the catalogue functions both as a transactional archive and a research resource, revealing period-specific approaches to classification, authentication, and valuation. It contributes to the study of collecting practices and the historical development of auction cataloguing.