Continental Baroque metalware Pyx, 17th/18th c., Continental, copper box with hinged lid raised on silvered brass central stem on copper base, repousse decorated with draped swags, bead borders and twisted strung bellflowers, unmarked, 7.5"h x 6.6"w x 3.25"d

Provenance: From the Collection of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw

Notes/Literature: Art dealer, connoisseur, and philanthropist Eugene Victor Thaw (1927-2018) was widely considered to be among the world's greatest collectors of European master drawings, French Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and an early advocate of the American Abstract Expressionists. One of the most respected art dealers of his day, he is credited with placing hundreds of major works into museums around the world, and was the founding member and past president of the Art Dealers Association of America.

Good/Fair, shows age and use, old repairs to underside of bowl, decoration on bowl edge possibly intentionally bent to lock lid, spots of corrosion on copper surface, mostly in crevices