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Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, executed by Rossi e Arcandi Monticello Conte Oro, designed 1982

ALASKA, A HAMMERED SILVER VASE

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Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, executed by Rossi e Arcandi Monticello Conte Oro, designed 1982
ALASKA, A HAMMERED SILVER VASE
The circular base supporting a pear shaped body with three angular handles, below a disc-shaped platform with a pear shaped neck flanked by two loop-handles
31 cm. high
Maker's marks

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Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

For comparison see: Exhibition catalogue, Memphis 1981-1988, Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1989, ill. 157
Hans Höger, Ettore Sottsass jun., Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin, 1993, p. 187, ill. 77
Exhibition catalogue, Ettore Sottsass, Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1994, p. 96
Barbara Radice, Memphis, Milano, 1984, p. 120

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