Sale 2357
Amsterdam
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25 November 1997
Price realised
NLG 3,460
Estimate
A French silver monstrance Maker's mark unidentified, mid 19th Century The scrolling foliate shaped base centered by gilt religious symbols rising to a realistically-shaped angel surmounted by a monstrance flanked by cherubs and beams of light and a cross 78 cm. (31 in.) high marked at the back of the base 1688 gr.
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The maker is Favier Freres,Lyon, circa 1845
The senior curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum on Noguchi’s work in relation to light, physics and Futurism
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