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An exceptional bronze display vitrine, this display vitrine was…
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Auckland
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14-Mar-2017
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An exceptional bronze display vitrine, this display vitrine was one of twelve ordered by Tiffany & Co. of New York; due to the 1929 Stock Market crash they took delivery of only eight vitrines, the remaining four were purchased by Partridge Jewellers for their Wellington store. Around 1971 two were sold to the Dominion Museum through auction and two were purchased by a well-known Wellington antique dealer, subsequently one of the latter being purchased by Portobello Antiques in the mid-1970s. Rectangular, oak lined and mirror backed, bronze sheathed, with ogee cornice, the front with two sliding doors on ball-bearing tracks, raised on a plinth with cavetto moulding supported on cast ball and claw feet. 160 cm x 50 cm x 167.5 cm
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Furniture: Cabinets - Display