Product Description
Tiffany & Co./Georges Le Sache, Neo Gothic “Vesta” case, 18k gold mountings, polychrome champleve enamel details on a “bone” covered case, hand carved foliate details, 18k gold long chain, signed, c. 1880
Vesta dimensions: H: 2 inches x W: 1 and ¾ inches x Depth: 5/8 inches
Chain length: 60 inches
Weight: 3.27 Troy ounces / 101.5 grams / 65.3 pennyweights
Tiffany & Co./Georges Le Sache, Neo Gothic “Vesta” case, 18k gold mountings, polychrome champleve enamel details on a “bone” covered case, hand carved foliate details, 18k gold long chain, signed, c. 1880
ETTORE SOTTSASS Italy
WALTER DE MARIO (maker) Italy
Architecural ring 1964
18K gold
Signed: ES1, 750, Walter de Mario touch mark
Illustrated: Ettore Sottsass, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994, p. 65
Exhibited: Ettore Sottsass, Centre Pompidou, Paris, April 27-September 5, 1994; Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography, New York, 1993 p. 144-145 (for related drawings)
WERNER SCHMIDT (b. 1953) Switzerland
Swiss Cheese chair 1991
Yellow laminated plywood, hinges.
Signed: WERNER SCHMIDT (block letters), 91/10
For related folding table by Schmidt see illustration: Aluminum by Design, Sarah Nichols et al. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000) p. 57.
Open dimension- H: 31 3/4” x W: 28 1/2” x D: 20”
Closed dimension – H: 31 3/4” x W 22 ½
Price: $11,500