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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bercrystal, post: 4491007, member: 88&quot;]When I first saw it I thought it was missing a lid which would have been the head of the monkey. If you look at all of the photos you can see that the tail wraps around &amp; forms the &quot;handle&quot; in the front. </p><p><br /></p><p>The auctioneer found a couple of others online, including one sold by Sotheby&#039;s last year for $3,780.00, that was exactly like this one. There was also one sold by artnet. So either it never had a lid, all 3 had lost their original lid or it is the same ice bucket. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is the first option because when I looked at it closely there was no evidence of a lid around the top edge. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the Sotheby&#039;s sale. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/dining-in-new-york/a-mexican-silver-monkey-form-ice-bucket-tane" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/dining-in-new-york/a-mexican-silver-monkey-form-ice-bucket-tane" rel="nofollow">https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/dining-in-new-york/a-mexican-silver-monkey-form-ice-bucket-tane</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The buyer who got this is one of those types of buyers that like to make others think he knows more than they do &amp; really doesn&#039;t back down very often. The problem is there are several of them that go out there regularly &amp; sometimes they keep bidding cause they don&#039;t want to lose to the others. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> It can be a lot of fun to watch when there is lots of silver to be had &amp; he had a butt load that night in the form of goblets, sherbets, flatware &amp; a drop-dead gorgeous basket.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In one of the descriptions, the auctioneer found the bucket described as a copy of a pre-Columbian statue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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