Champagne bucket handbag
(1962-1968)
Medium
leather (suede), metal, plastic, wood
Measurements
27.0 × 21.0 × 10.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift’s Program, 2020
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The Anne-Marie of France boutique opened on the ground floor of Paris’s Hôtel Meurice in the late 1940s, selling a variety of women’s accessories. The shop specialised in witty and surreal novelty handbags designed to look like a variety of everyday objects such as champagne buckets, telephones, cocktail bars, hands of playing cards or boxes of Chesterfield cigarettes.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
printed in gold ink inside lid: Anne-Marie / 228 RUE DE RIVOLI / Hôtel Meurice / PARIS
Accession Number
2020.616
Department
International Fashion and Textiles