Marie Zimmerman Box Brings $117,500 At Rago

LAMBERTVILLE, N.J.

:Thirty pieces of work from the personal collection of Arts and Crafts designer, metalsmith and artist Marie Zimmerman were offered at Rago's Craftsman Auction this past weekend, September 17 and 18. Hosted by David Rago, Jerry Cohen and Suzanne Perrault, the auction offered a huge assortment of materials.

Highlighting the sale was a 10-inch-high carved wooden box by Zimmerman on round ivory ball feet with cast bronze handles and hinges with hasp fashioned in Egyptian motifs. The hand carved wood surface was painted in green, blue, red and yellow with black outlining and natural brown wood edges and also decorated with studded cabochon jewels of amethyst and semiprecious quartz. The interior of the box was lined in purple silk with small medallion designs in Eastern taste.

Pictured in the February 1922 issue of House and Garden, a copy of which was included with the sale of the item, the lot soared past the $30/50,000 presale estimates as it realized $117,500.

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