Lot 187
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AN ITALIAN SILVER TABLE BOX
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AN ITALIAN SILVER TABLE BOX

BY MARIO BUCCELLATI, CIRCA 1950

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AN ITALIAN SILVER TABLE BOX
BY MARIO BUCCELLATI, CIRCA 1950
Rectangular with brushed surface, the hinged cover engraved with horse-drawn carriages on a Manhattan street and inscribed BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY, LOOKING SOUTH FROM THE ASTOR HOUSE IN 1850, flange engraved with signature M. BUCCELLATI MILAN, ROMA FIRENZE - MADE IN ITALY 800
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) long; 12 oz. 12 dwt. (392 gr.)
Provenance
A gift from Brooke Astor (1902-2007) to David Rockefeller (by repute).
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Lot Essay

The present scene was based on a lithograph by August Köllner, a version of which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number: 67.630.36). Astor House, is visible on the right hand side of the scene.

Köllner was a Philadelphia-based artist, etcher, engraver, and lithographer who immigrated to the United States in 1839. Broad-way was part of his ambitious project to make more than one hundred drawings of American and Canadian cities, which resulted in fifty-four lithographs published in New York and Paris between 1848 and 1851.

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