SCIPIO (SCIPIO)
Art and rare book sales/auction catalogs
Why select this database?
- Only online list of auction catalog records in existence
- Provides information to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as many private sales
- Valuable source of information on art objects, rare books, history of collecting and comtemporary and historical market needs
- Catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held
- Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works
| Database details |
| Subjects |
| art objects |
rare books |
| collection sets |
rugs |
| estates |
sketchings |
| furniture |
sculpture |
| jewelry |
textiles |
| paintings |
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| Sources |
SCIPIO is a joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections
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| Number of records |
Over 300,000 |
| Dates covered |
Catalogs from the late sixteenth century to schedules auctions not yet held |
| Updated |
Daily |
| Producer information |
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395
USA
Phone: 1-800-848-5878
Fax: +1-614-764-6096
Web: http://www.oclc.org
E-mail: support@oclc.org
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| Copyright |
Copyright © 1978-
2012
manual
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. |
Indexes and examples in SCIPIO
| Search indexes |
Examples |
| Keyword |
european paintings |
| Accession number |
37993343
(OCLC number) |
| Auction house |
christie's, manson and woods |
| Auctioneer & auction house |
john sollo |
| Citation |
lugt |
| Date of sale |
01312007 (searching single date January 31, 2007, MMDDYYYY)
01312007-02142007 (searching dates from January 31 to February 14, 2007, MMDDYYYY)
012007-022007 (searching dates in January and February 2007, MMYYYY)
2006-2007 (searching any day in either year, YYYY) |
| Notes |
translation |
| Place of publication |
new york |
| Place of sale |
paris |
| Publisher |
christie's |
| Sale code |
LO1703 LEVER |
| Seller/subject |
faye dunaway |
| Standard number |
LO1703 LEVER |
| Subject |
warhola collection |
| Title |
post-war and contemporary art |
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