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Joker's (Jack Nicholson) flower box from Tim Burton's Batman. After Jack Napier, aka Joker, broke into Vicki Vale's (Kim Basinger) apartment, his henchmen left a gift box for her on the kitchen table with a spring mannequin hand, meant to represent his own hand, holding a bouquet of dead flowers.
Credited with launching the modern era of superhero cinema, Batman dominated the box office during the summer of 1989, earned an Academy Award® for Best Art Direction-Set Direction, shattered merchandising records, and reshaped public perception of the character from campy joke to iconic myth. It remains, for many fans and critics, the definitive live-action Batman film.
This lot features a cardboard box with a wooden bottom with a centered metal rod rigged with a nylon string on the side of the box, a metal spring, a painted plaster hand mounted over a metal tube and featuring painted nails, a bouquet of dried flower stems bound with nylon string, a typed notecard, and a satin ribbon. This lot exhibits wear to the box, grime on the hand, metal tarnishing, and glue residue on the notecard. Dimensions: 16.25" x 16.25" x 16.25" (41.5 cm 41.5 cm x 41.5 cm)
Estimate: $8,000 - 16,000