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AN 18K GOLD BOX, JEAN SCHLUMBERGER, TIFFANY & CO.
Of rectangular outline, of textured gold design with polished gold geometric accents, the interior bearing the inscription "Huntington Cairns, Trustee and longtime advisor to Bollingen Foundation, with grateful acknowledgement of his wise and humane counsel, from his fellow trustees," mounted in 18K gold, circa 1960--3¾ x 2.13/16 x 1¼ ins.
Signed Tiffany, Schlumberger, No. 11
Of rectangular outline, of textured gold design with polished gold geometric accents, the interior bearing the inscription "Huntington Cairns, Trustee and longtime advisor to Bollingen Foundation, with grateful acknowledgement of his wise and humane counsel, from his fellow trustees," mounted in 18K gold, circa 1960--3¾ x 2.13/16 x 1¼ ins.
Signed Tiffany, Schlumberger, No. 11
Provenance
Huntington Cairns (1904-1984) was a man of parts--lawyer, critic, public servant, naturalist, connoisseur, polymath. At the suggestion of fellow Baltimorean H.L. Mencken, Cairns passed up undergraduate study and went directly to the University of Maryland Law School. After several years in private practice, he became special counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department. From 1943 to 1965 he put his knowledge of art and the law to good use as secretary, treasurer and general counsel to the National Gallery of Art.