American Sterling Silver Match Safe - 'The Storm'

A late 19th / early 20th century American sterling silver Match Safe of shaped oval form with sprung hinged lid, the face die-stamped in high relief with an image of 'The Storm' (a contemporary painting by Pierre Auguste Cot). The reverse engraved with Street Car Advertising inscription.

Marked STERLING.
American, c1900

The Storm (La Tempête) is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, completed in 1880. Currently on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was commissioned from the artist in 1880 by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cot's principal patrons.

Sold - £220.00