Product Description
Japanese Meiji Period “Koi” Cloisonné enamel box. c. 1900
JAPANESE MEIJI PERIOD (1868-1912) Japan
“Koi” covered box c.1900
Cloisonné with silver wire and wireless orange enamel with silver foil backing and cobalt blue enameled background with silver foil and enameled underside, red woven silk interior.
Original wood hinged box with padded cotton interior, attached paper label of an unidentified artist cipher (see box cover).
Dimensions of wood box:
H: 3 5/8″ x W: 5 3/4″ x D: 4 3/4″
Japanese Meiji Period “Koi” Cloisonné enamel box. c. 1900
ARRIGO VARETTONI DE MOLIN (1902-1985)
Cocktail Hour 1937
Oil on canvas
Signed: Arrigo V de Molin (on front of canvas), #4 Cocktail Hour, Arrigo Varettoni de Molin, 323 West 4th Street, 79 Horatio Street (paper label attached to back of frame)
Listed: Who’s Who in America, Series II, no. 11 (November 1, 1941) p. 6.
Exhibited: The Society of Independent Artists, 1939; Vendome Art Galleries, 1941
Painting reviewed: “Three Newcomers Enliven the Season’s Beginning” Roy Finch, The New York Herald Tribune (September 7, 1941).
Canvas: H: 42” x 36”