PORTOBELLO/JOHN MAINS ANTIQUES Tuesday, 14 March 2017 - 1:00 PM start
An exceptional bronze display vitrine
Realised: $8,250 plus premium
Lot Details
this display vitrine was one of 12 ordered by Tiffany & Co. of New York, due to the 1929 Stock Market crash they took delivery of only eight vitrines, the remaining four were purchased by Partridges for their Wellington store. Around 1971 two were sold to the Dominion Museum through auction and two were purchased by a well-known Wellington antique dealer, subsequently one being purchased by Portobello Antiques in the early 1970s. Rectangular, oak lined and mirror backed, bronze sheathed, with ogee cornice, two sliding doors on ball-bearing tracks and on a plinth with cavetto moulding raised on cast ball and claw feet. 1600 x 500 x 1675. $10,000
