Property of a Private Collector
A Gold and Enamel Mounted Large Agate Box, Cartier, New York, Circa 1930
Lot Closed
October 16, 08:17 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
of rounded rectangular form, made of cloudy brown and gray semi-translucent agate, the clasp and hinges of gold with stripes of champlevé, dark blue enamel, and set with cabochon sapphires, the cover centered by enameled initials AOD for Alice Olin Dows, in green enamel frame, enclosed by sapphires, signed on clasp Cartier 2717733
length 5 3/4 in.
14.6 cm
The collection of Alice Olin Dows, given to the father of the current owner
Alice Olin Dows (1881–1963) was a prominent socialite and poet in the Hudson Valley, where she and her husband, Tracy Dows, built the sprawling Colonial Revival mansion at Foxhollow Farm, their 700+ acre estate in Rhinebeck. A friend of such intellectuals of the era as Gore Vidal and Eleanor Roosevelt, she passed on her creativity to her son, Stephen Olin Dows, who was a painter and friend of novelist Thomas Wolfe and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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