Property of a New York collects or
THE ROYCROFTERS | "POPPY" BONBON BOX
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GTNN
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a New York collects or
THE ROYCROFTERS
"POPPY" BONBON BOX
circa 1914
with the original clear glass liner
hand-wrought copper, glass
impressed with the firm's "orb and cross" cipher
2¾ in. (7 cm) high
5⅜ in. (13.7 cm) diameter
Private collects ion, New Rochelle, New York
Private collects ion, Richmond, Virginia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, exh. cat., Princeton, 1972, p. 47 (for a related "Poppy" bookend)
Stephen Gray, ed., A Catalogue of The Roycrofters, New York, 1989, p. 47
Reflections: Arts & Crafts Metalwork in England and the United States, exh. cat., Kurland Zabar, New York, 1990, p. 45
David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the collects ion of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, p. 159