Cuir d'Ocean France Bespoke Shagreen Watch and Cufflink Box w Bone Trim and Key

Taxco Mexico Brass Copper and Azurite Malachite Hinged Box, ca 1960s Superb handwrought circa 1965 mixed metals - silver, copper and brass - inlay box by a skilled silversmith (make...

George Herms, California (b. 1937), "Handle", 1997. Found object assemblage. Mixed media including metal, wood, wire, newspaper, carpet and parchment. Signed and dated on verso. Measures 22" high x 22-1/2" wide x 6"deep. Artwork is in very good as-found condition. Detailed photos show full condition. George Herms is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces, about which he has said, "I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman...

Art Deco table top cedar lined cigarette box in burled Thuya and amboyna wood trimmed with bone and with four panels of pink dyed shagreen in the top conforming to the darker burls o...

Art Deco olive green shagreen covered box with bone edged top raised on turned ball feet and having the bottom covered in snake or lizard skin.