Sale 213 Lot 240A 

SILVERED COPPER SHAPED VESSEL MOUNTED AS TABLE LAMP Overall finely chased decoration and low relief scene of warriors in battle H: 39 1/2 in, overall with shade.
$250-350

PROVENANCE: Present lot was acquired by Bennett Schiff (1920-2014), a member of the U.S. Foreign Service who served as press attaché in Nicosia, Cyprus, and Tehran from 1962 until 1967.He moved to Washington, DC,in 1967 to work as a consultant to the Peace Corps, the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Ford Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Sold for $200

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