Jewelry coffer, 1899-1900

Bronze, enamel, silver, niello, wood
l. 16 in. (41 cm) - h. 9 1/2 in. (24 cm) - d. 9 1/2 in. (24 cm)
Unique piece

PROVENANCE : Presumably designed for the mayor of Budapest Jànos Halmos - (...) - German private collection, Nuremberg, until 2021 - Sold by Hermann Historica Auction, Grasbrunn, Munich, 26th May 2021, lot 158 (listed as a XIXth century Vienese casket).

EXHIBITED : Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900 - The coffer was presented in the Salon of the Mayor of Budapest alongside the Esplanade des Invalides in the Hungarian section.

LITERATURE : G. Kálmán, ‘Az iparmüveszet a párisi kiálliáson’, in Magyar Iparmüvószet 3, number 5 (September 1900), illustrated page 289 - G. Malkowsky, Die Pariser Weltausstellung in Wort und Bild, Berlin, 1900, illustrated page 486.

COLLECTION : Virginia Museum of Fine Arts