
Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold Without Reserve
TWO CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN GILT-METAL MOUNTED ASPARAGUS-FORM ETUIS OR NEEDLE CASES, PROBABLY MEISSEN, MID TO LATE 18TH CENTURY
naturalistically modeled and colored, with hinged metal covers
length 3 ¼ in.
8.3 cm
James Lewis and Son, New York, bearing label (the green example)
The Estate of Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 17 May 1980, lot 127 (the pale manganese example)
An example of an etui of this form is in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, collection record 1931-6-27