TRUMAN CAPOTE'S RUSSIAN ORTHODOX BRASS PASCHAL EGG ON STAND, INSCRIBED CHRIST IS RISEN
Paschal egg in gilt brass, the two halves separating at a horizontal join, engraved to one side with the Cyrillic letters X and B in ornate Slavonic script infilled in red enamel, suspended by a loop from a ring at the crown and resting on a three-legged stand with arrow-form feet, the interiors gilt.
Very probably the egg described in Capote's 1957 Paris Review interview, where the objects on his parlor tables are listed and the first named is "a golden Easter egg brought back from Russia."
Approx. Dimensions: egg 3 "H x 2 "round; 4.5 "H on the stand
Artist or Maker: Russian
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Literature: Pati Hill, "Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17," The Paris Review, Issue 16, Spring-Summer 1957.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person during our viewing hours prior to auction or through requested condition reports. All bids are final and are subject to our terms and conditions.
Appeal: russian orthodox, paschal egg, easter egg, christ is risen, khristos voskrese, cyrillic, gilt brass, russia, the muses are heard, paris review, truman capote, celebrity estate, provenance
Paschal egg in gilt brass, the two halves separating at a horizontal join, engraved to one side with the Cyrillic letters X and B in ornate Slavonic script infilled in red enamel, suspended by a loop from a ring at the crown and resting on a three-legged stand with arrow-form feet, the interiors gilt.
Very probably the egg described in Capote's 1957 Paris Review interview, where the objects on his parlor tables are listed and the first named is "a golden Easter egg brought back from Russia."
Approx. Dimensions: egg 3 "H x 2 "round; 4.5 "H on the stand
Artist or Maker: Russian
Provenance: Truman Capote; Gerald Clarke, his biographer
This lot is part of The Magpie and the Swans: The Possessions of Truman Capote, collected over a lifetime between New York and Sagaponack, and preserved since 1984 by his biographer, Gerald Clarke.
Literature: Pati Hill, "Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17," The Paris Review, Issue 16, Spring-Summer 1957.
Notes: Although care is taken to photograph and describe the item, absence of a condition report does not imply perfect condition. It is the responsibility of the buyer to verify the condition of the item, either in person during our viewing hours prior to auction or through requested condition reports. All bids are final and are subject to our terms and conditions.
Appeal: russian orthodox, paschal egg, easter egg, christ is risen, khristos voskrese, cyrillic, gilt brass, russia, the muses are heard, paris review, truman capote, celebrity estate, provenance
