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  Joyce Francis “Banana Land Flowers” Bright Orange Box 2008

  JOYCE FRANCIS New York, NY

  “Banana Land Flowers” box 2008

  Cast and carved bright orange Lucite acrylic deeply incised and carved with three dimensional images of a monkey, a butterfly, a dragonfly and exotic flowers and foliage.

  The top cover dimension is 1 3/4″ thick and the four sides of the box are 1 1/4″ thick.

  Marks: Joyce Francis 08

  H: 6″ x W: 4 3/4″ x D: 4 3/4″

  Price: $3,750

  Joyce Francis is a native Manhattanite artist who specializes in sculptured acrylic jewelry, purses, sculpture, tables and coveted collection of exciting, passionately carved decorative boxes. All pieces have been painstakingly hand carved, hand dyed, illuminated and sometimes hand painted as well. There are no embedded objects. Her purses are part of the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Costume Institute (New York), The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), The Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland).

  Her work is in the collections of a number of stars and celebrities, including Hillary Swank, Phoebe Cates Kline, Emma Thompson, Cicely Tyson and Meryl Streep. Examples of her boxes and lamps are also owned by Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks.

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  British Arts & Crafts “School of Mackintosh” Glasgow Rose box c. 1900

  SCHOOL OF MACKINTOSH (1868-1928) UK

  Box with hinged cover  c. 1900

  Silver plate with a large abstract heart design and stylized Glasgow rose motifs in bas-relief.

  Illustrated: Modern Silver throughout the world, 1880-1967, Graham Hughes (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1967), p. 145.

  H: 2″ x W: 6 1/4″ x D: 4 3/4″

   

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  Tommi Parzinger, Sterling silver coffee pot with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail c. 1938

  TOMMI PARZINGER (1903-1972) Germany / USA
  PETER ALBERT REIMES Silversmith (1900-1945) Germany / USA

  Modernist Coffee pot c. 1938

  Hand wrought sterling silver with meandering floral and leaf design, ebony handle and finial detail
  Marks: Designed by Parzinger (in script), hand made, sterling (in script), P*R monogram (initials mark of Peter Reimes)
  Model illustrated: LIFE Magazine November 20, 1939
  For more information on Tommi Parzinger see: Town & Country, Vol. 54, “Counter Points”, December 1939, p. 31; Town & Country, Vol. 95, “Counter Points”, June 1940, p. 19; The Studio, 1938, “For the Table”, p.107-09; The Studio, 1942, “Tommi Parzinger, Designer of Modern Interiors and Silver”, p.37; Decorative Art, Studio Yearbook (London & New York: The Studio Publications, 1952-53), p. 98; Craft in the Machine Age, ed. Janet Kardon (New York: American Craft Museum, 1995) p.128, 134, 183, 241, Arts and Decoration, June 1940
  H: 9 ¼” x W: 6 ½” x D: 3 ¾”

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  Tommi Parzinger, Sterling set of four salt shakers with ribbon and hanging pendant motif c. 1938

  TOMMI PARZINGER  (1903-1981)  Germany/USA

  Sterling set of four salt shakers with ribbon and hanging pendant motif c. 1938