LOUIS VUITTON, PROBABLY 1920S

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A LADY'S HIGH TRUNK IN MONOGRAM CANVAS
LOUIS VUITTON, PROBABLY 1920S
Leather and brass bound, with fittings for a metal handle at one end and a metal handle to the other, the interior lined in cream linen, with one removeable long tray, a webbed linen basket and a smaller tray with lidded and divided compartments, the lid padded, with studded ribbon taping
27½ x 43 x 23 in. (70 x 110 x 58 cm.)
The lock stamped 'LOUIS VUITTON, 70 CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES PARIS, 149 NEW BOND STREET LONDON, MADE IN FRANCE' and numbered '068236', the interior with damaged label enscribed 'LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS 70.CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES, NICE 4.JARDIN ALBERT 1^E^R LILLE 34. RUE FAIDHERBE, LONDON 149.NEW BONT ST.' and numbered '737530'
Together with two costume designs belonging to Lucrezia Bori; the first for her role in 'Manon'; the other for her role as Fiora in the opera 'L'Amore del Treve', the first American performance in 1914 (3)

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Lot Essay

This trunk was made for the Metropolitan Opera singer, Lucrezia Bori and was inherited by Bori's companion and social secretary, Jennie Grazzini, upon Bori's death. Each year Bori and Grazzini would travel from the USA to Paris, bringing the trunk, together with Bori's costume designs for the upcoming season; Bori had all the designs realised, made-up and fitted in Paris.

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