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Pamela Weir-Quiton

Butterfly Bride; Tribal Chief (Important Mummy cabinets, set of two)

USA, c. 1971
glass tiles, glazed stoneware, pine, polychrome lacquered wood, mirrored glass 84¾ h × 22¼ w × 16½ d in (215 × 57 × 42 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $7,560
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Cabinets each feature one door concealing seven shelves, four drawers, two vertical dividers and a hanging rod.
provenance: Collection of Pamela Weir-Quiton
exhibited: California Design Eleven, 14 March - 25 April 1971, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
literature: California Design Eleven, Moore, pg. 172 references the present examples "The Weir-Quitons: The Pajama Fairy's Report, Los Angeles Times Home magazine, 10 February 1974, pg. 13 illustrates these examples

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"[These were] designed and made for California Design 11, where they were exhibited (but not finished in time for the catalog). Legend has it that a Victorian maiden was on a voyage down the Amazon. The boat stopped at a native village and she and the tribal chief fell in love. The mummies were made in their honor as functional cabinets to display their personal wardrobe collections. There are secret compartments under the bottom slanted shelves, which lift up. They were inspired by the bespoke Gustav Klimt book, after I had done an architectural commission of mermaids and a sea serpent for Strawberry & Clothier in Philadelphia."

—Pamela Weir-Quiton

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