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A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVERED AND GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVERED AND GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVERED AND GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
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A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVERED AND GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES

BY EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1923

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A PAIR OF AMERICAN SILVERED AND GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED WROUGHT IRON GARDEN GATES
BY EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1923
Each with pierced arabesques, cartouches and vinery, punctuated by scampering monkeys, phoenix birds and grape clusters above a scrolling pierced border
76 in. (193 cm.) high, 68 in. (173 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Commissioned for Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., circa 1923.
The Collection of the Late Mrs. Benjamin Frankin Jones, Jr. at Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28 November 1941, lot 949 ($320).
Maria Félix: La Doña, Christie's, New York, 17-18 July 2007, lot 94.

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Lot Essay

These fanciful gates were made for Pittsburgh industrialist and art collector Benjamin Franklin Jones, Jr. for his home palatial home Fair Acres, in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania. The contents of Fair Acres were sold in a series of auctions in 1941 after the death of Mrs. B.F. Jones, Jr., and it is possible that at this point the gates entered the collection of Mara Félix (d. 2002), an icon of Mexican cinema in the 1940's.

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