Kaiserhaus and Ballspenden
Imperial Decorative Arts of the Habsburg Monarchy
From The Drawing Room Antiques
# 5233. A Ballspenden from Vienna. Titled "Rudolfsheimer VI Armen Ball 29 Janner 1901" Size: 10.5 from the hook to the bottom tassel. Card size is 3.5" x 3.5". The Armen Ball was the "poor peoples" ball. Johann Strauss wrote a polka, opus 176 titled The Armen Ball Polka. The design is a high style Art Nouveau form; flowers frame and metal poor box with a coin (dated 1901) about to be donated. Condition: scuffing to the paint surface and some enamel loss to the flower color; there is no interior to the attached booklet on the back side; there is a pencil, but probably not the original pencil. A rare and beautiful Art Nouveau memento of an evening of dance. Price: $350.00.
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