While both houses have produced lavish hardbound catalogues, Christie's has gone further.
Wagging this show as the tail wags the dog is the lavish, overproduced catalogue.
His exhibitions, documented by lavish catalogues, are among the more ambitious and heavily advertised in the antiquities field.
Sotheby's published yet another lavish, hardbound catalogue and took the pieces around the world, as it had done with the Sharp property.
Both shows were accompanied by lavish catalogues.
Of course, the corn that he was always pictured alongside was as ripe and tall as that in any lavish agricultural catalogue.
It issued lavish catalogues, often sending them to clients by overnight mail.
The museum's lavish catalogue was widely praised.
Promoted by a lavish $50 catalogue - 316 glossy pages for 81 lots - the sale, estimated at $30 million, realized less than half of that: $12,962,868.
In the spring of 1892 Bardini prepared a lavish catalogue for an auction sale of pieces from his own collection, held at Christie's.