Antiques auctions

[Czartoryski] – A small box from the workshop in Żurawno. 1930s. Alabaster; diameter 6.5 cm A label on the bottom reads: “Żurawno X. Czartoryskich” (with a ducal crown in the center). Żurawo, today a village in Ukraine, was once a small town on the Dniester River in the Lviv Oblast. It was the birthplace of Mikołaj Rej and the site of Jan III Sobieski’s victorious battle against th...
Travel Altar. Paris, G. Simon. Interwar period (?). Embossed and gilded leather, fabric, wood, brass sheet, brass, steel; 19.5 x 10.5 x 2 cm (when folded) A fold-out altar (with a pull-out support that allows it to stand with its wings open) that can be used while traveling as well as for private, at-home prayer. A fully sculpted figure of Christ Crucified, with figures of the Virgin Mary and ...