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Amedeo Gennarelli, Torso, Art Deco Carved Granite Sculpture, ca. 1940
Located in New York, NY
Amedeo Gennarelli
Torso
Carved Granite
Art Deco
Circa 1940
DIMENSIONS
Height: 15.5 inches (39.37 cm)
Width: 8 inches (20.32 cm)
Depth: 6 inches (15.24 cm)
ABOUT
This expressive han...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite, Stone
Roseville for Tiffany, Arts & Crafts Chinese-Form Ceramic Vase, ca. 1900
By Roseville Pottery
Located in New York, NY
American Arts & Crafts
Roseville for Tiffany
Chinese form Pauleo pattern
Vase
Glazed ceramic
Circa 1900
DIMENSIONS
Height: 15.75 inches (40.01 cm)
Diameter: 10.5 inches (26.67 cm...
Category
Antique Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Joseph Franz Pallenberg, Bear, German Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1920s
By Joseph Franz Pallenberg
Located in New York, NY
German Art Deco
Joseph Franz Pallenberg
Bear
Patinated Bronze
ca. 1920’s
Signed “Jos. Pallenberg”.
Black patina, original black marble base.
Dimensions:
Height: 8 inches (...
Category
Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Carlo Zen, Mother-of-Pearl & Brass Thread Inlaid Side Table, Italy, circa 1900
By Carlo Zen
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Zen
Stile Floreale - Italian Art Nouveau
Octagonal Side Table
Walnut, Mother-of-Pearl & Brass Thread Inlay
Italy, circa 1900
DIMENSIONS
Height: 28.75 inches ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Side Tables
Materials
Brass
Paul Meltsner, Portrait of a Youth, American Modernist Realism O/C, c. 1940
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Modernist Social Realism
Paul Raphael Meltsner
Portrait of a Youth
Oil on canvas
Circa 1940
DIMENSIONS
CANVAS: 26 x 20 inches
FRAMED: 30 .5 x 24.5 inches
DETAIL...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Brutalist Abstract Cast Aluminum& Marble Sculpture by D. Calvi, ca. 1970’s
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Brutalism
D. Calvi
Cast & Partially Polished Aluminum, Marble
ca. 1970’s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 22 inches (w/ base)
Width: 9.5 inches
Depth: 4 inches
Base: 11 x 6 x 3 inches
A...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Aluminum
Alexander Cañedo, Dancing Man, Surrealistic O/C Painting, ca. 1950’s
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Surrealism
Alexander Cañedo
Dancing Man
Oil on Canvas
ca. 1950’s
PAINTING DIMENSIONS:
Canvas: 44 x 44 cm (17-3/8 x 17-3/8 in.)
Framed: 68 x 68 cm (26-3/4 x 26-3/4 in.)
Alexander Cañedo (Mexican-American, 1902 – 1978) was born in Mexico City as Alejandro de Cañedo; his father was a Mexican government official and his mother was from the United States. In 1918, when Cañedo was 15, his parents sent him to École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under the sculptor Jean Magrou. In 1923, Cañedo traveled to Rome where he continued his art studies. In 1927, Cañedo briefly returned to Mexico. During that trip, the Mexican Government appointed him attaché to the Mexican Embassy in Rome.
In 1928, Cañedo held his first art exhibition with the Circolo Artistico in Rome, a collection of pencil drawings. More exhibitions followed in other cities in Europe. That same year, he traveled to the New York City where he exhibited widely. At this point, he began signing his work with just his last name; eventually, he also Anglicized his first name as "Alexander" and dropped the "de".
Cañedo was commissioned in 1929 to illustrate the amatory novel Orientale: The Adventure of Therese Beauchamps by the French author Francis de Miomandre. The highly stylized Art Deco results were so successful that he retained Cañedo the following year to illustrate his next novel, The Love Life of Venus.
In 1932, Cañedo was invited to have a solo show of his pencil drawings at Walter P. Chrysler, Junior's newly opened Cheshire Gallery, located in the Chrysler Building. He also had a solo exhibition at the Argent Galleries, and participated in shows of the Art Students League of New York, of which he was an active member.
By the mid-1930s, Cañedo began exhibiting watercolors. These were shown at solo exhibitions at the Arthur U...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
American Art Deco Wrought Iron Sculpture of Nude Female, ca. 1920’s
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Nude Female
Wrought Iron Sculpture
ca. 1920’s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 13 inches
Width: 4 inches
Depth: 4 inches
ABOUT
Designed in...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
Surrealist Abstract Bronze Sculpture in Manner of Wifredo Lam, ca. 1950's-60's
By Wifredo Lam
Located in New York, NY
Surrealist Abstract Sculpture
In the manner of
Wifredo Lam
ca. 1950’s-60’s
DIMENSIONS
Height (w/ base): 11.25 inches
Height of base: 5 inches
Width: 5 inches...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Andrée Hochar Fattal, Forbidden Fruit, Modernist Bronze Sculpture, 20th C.
Located in New York, NY
Andrée Hochar Fattal
Forbidden Fruit
Modernist Patinated-Bronze Sculpture
XX Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 4.75 inches
Width: 8.25 inches
Depth: 5...
Category
Vintage 1980s Asian Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Heinrich Karl Scholz, Declaration of Love, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, 1919
By Heinrich Karl Scholz
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco
Heinrich Karl Scholz
Declaration of Love
Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Austria, 1919
DIMENSIONS
Height: 13.75 inches
Width: 6.75 inches
Depth: 4.75 inches
ABOUT
This Art Deco brown-patinated bronze sculpture, stunning with its grace and fine lines, was created by the famous Austrian sculpture...
Category
Vintage 1910s Austrian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique German Silver Fruit Serving Basket, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Antique
Silver Fruit Serving Basket w/ Glass Insert
Germany, Late XIX Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 15.5 inches Width: 15 inches Depth: 10 inches
WEIGHT
44oz (1,...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Rococo Revival Serving Pieces
Materials
Silver
Jules Werson, Art Deco Bronze Nude Female Dancer, ca. 1920
Located in New York, NY
Belgian Art Deco
Jules Werson
Nude Female Dancer
Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Circa 1920
DIMENSIONS
Height: 18 inches Width: 7 inches Depth: 3.75 inches
ABOU...
Category
Vintage 1920s Belgian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Italian Rococo 800°-Silver Sculptural Centerpiece, ca. 1880s
Located in New York, NY
Rococo Revival
Antique Sculptural Centerpiece
800° Silver
Italy, ca. 1880s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 7.75 inches Width: 18.25 inches Depth: 16.75 inches
WEIGHT
88oz ...
Category
Antique 1880s Italian Rococo Revival Centerpieces
Materials
Silver
É. M. Sandoz, Art Deco Cubist Sculpture of Parrot in Carved Malachite, ca. 1920s
By Edouard-Marcel Sandoz
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco
Édouard-Marcel Sandoz
PARROT
Cubist Sculpture in Carved Malachite
Circa 1920
DIMENSIONS
Height: 5.75 inches Width: 3-15/16 inches Depth: 1-15/...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Malachite
Abstract Cubist Bronze Sculpture Signed DN, XX Century
Located in New York, NY
Vintage
Abstract Cubist Sculpture
Bronze Granite
XX Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 7 inches Width: 3-3/8 inches Depth: 3-3/8 inches
ABOUT
This is a brillia...
Category
20th Century American Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Soccer Player, German Art Deco Patinated Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1930’s
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco
Soccer Player
Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Germany, ca. 1930’s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 9.5 inches Width: 6.75 inches Depth: 2.75 inches
ABOUT
A rare, laconi...
Category
Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Carved Wood Sculpture in manner of Takao Kimura, ca. 1960
By Takao Kimura
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modern
In the manner of Takao Kimura
Carved Elmwood
Abstract Sculpture
Japan, ca. 1960s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 17.75 inches Width: 6.25 inches Depth: 6...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
French Belle Epoque Tromp L'éoel Bronze Paperweight Ashtray, ca. 1880s
Located in New York, NY
Belle Epoque ~ Tromp L'éoel
Paperweight Ashtray w/ Cigarette & Match-Striker Holder
in form of a Glove
Patinated Bronze
France, ca. 1880s
ABOUT
Made in France in the last quart...
Category
Antique 1880s French Belle Époque Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
Otello Rosa Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Sconce & Wall Art, ca. 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modernism
Otello Rosa for San Polo
A Pair of Personages from La Comedia dell’ Arte
Ceramic Wall Sconce & Wall Art
Italy, ca. 1950s
ABOUT
These wonderful ceramic Wal...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ceramic
Swedish Mid-Century Abstract Marquetry 3-Legged Coffee Table, ca. 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modernism
CoffeeSideOccasional Table
Abstract Marquetry
Sweden, ca. 1950s
ABOUT
A unique Swedish mid-century occasional side coffee table with abstract marquetry in v...
Category
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Modernist Floor Lamp in Alberto Giacometti Manner, Late XX Century
Located in New York, NY
Modernism
Floor Lamp
In Manner of Alberto Giacometti
Composition & Metal
Late XX Century
ABOUT
Today, in the era of eclecticism, this outstanding modernist floor lamp in the styl...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Composition, Metal
Antique English Turner’s Chair in Old Saxon Manner, Late 19 Century
Located in New York, NY
Antique Turner’s Chair
In Old Saxon Manner
England
Late 19 Century
ABOUT
This Old Saxon style chair is made at the end of 19th Century of eboni...
Category
Antique 1890s English Jacobean Chairs
Materials
Wood
Wenzel Friedrich Att., Adirondack Rustic Style Side Table, ca. 1880-90’s
By Wenzel Friedrich
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to Wenzel Friedrich
Adirondack Rustic Style
Side Table
USA, circa 1880-90
DIMENSIONS
Height: 31.5 inches
Top diameter: 17.25 inches
WENZEL FRIEDRICH (Bohemian/American,...
Category
Antique 1880s American Adirondack Side Tables
Materials
Brass
Edgar Brandt Attr., French Art Deco Wrought Table Mirror, ca. 1920's
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco
Table Mirror w/ Snake Base
Wrought Iron
Circa 1920
ABOUT
This elegant wrought iron American Art Deco table mirror of an outstand...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Table Mirrors
Materials
Wrought Iron
Hagenauer, Tennis Players, A Pair of Art Deco Miniature Sculptures, ca. 1920's
By Karl Hagenauer
Located in New York, NY
Austrian Art Deco
Karl Hagenauer
Tennis Players
A Pair of Miniature Sculptures
Vienna, ca. 1920s
DIMENSIONS
MALE TENNIS PLAYER FEMALE TENNIS PLAY...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Antique Italian Wrought Iron Dragon Candle Holder, XIX Century
Located in New York, NY
Antique
Candle Holder in form of a Dragon
Wrought Iron
Italy, XIX Century
ABOUT
This unique and really whimsical wrought iron candle holder in the form of a stylized dragon immediat...
Category
Antique 1890s Italian Medieval Candelabras
Materials
Wrought Iron
Atique Japanese Rootwood & Bamboo Ikebana Vase, XIX Century
Located in New York, NY
Atique
Rootwood & Bamboo
Ikebana Vase
Japan, XIX Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 19.25vinches
Width: 10.13 inches
Depth: 9.5 inches
ABOUT
This absolutely unique ikebana vase consists of...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jar...
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Rena Rosenthal, Madonna & Child, Art Deco Wood & Metal Sculpture, ca. 1920’s
By Rena Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
Austrian Art Deco
(for Rena Rosenthal possibly, by Hagenauer)
Madonna and Child
Carved Ebonized Wood & Silvered Metal
ca. 1920’s
MATERIALS
Ebonized wood and silvered metal.
MARKINGS
Stamped with “Made in Austria” and "RENA" marks.
DIMENSIONS
Height: 6.25 inches
Width: 4.25 inches
Depth: 2.5 inches
ABOUT SCULPTURE
Quite extraordinary in its design, craftsmanship and selection of materials, this outstanding Art Deco tabletop sculpture of the Madonna and Child was most likely made in the Vienna studio...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
American Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of a Nude Woman w/ Sea Shell, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
A light, graceful female figure, as if floating in the air, with hair fluttering in the wind, trying not to spill, carefully carries in front of her a large sea shell filled wi...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Otello Rosa for San Polo, Italian Modernist Ceramic Wall Sconce, ca. 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Italian Mid-Century Modernism
Otello Rosa for San Polo
Pinocchio Wall Sconce
ca. 1950s
ABOUT
Otello Rosa (Italian, 1920 – 2007) is the author of this stylish Mid-Century Modernist w...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ceramic
Aesthetic Movement Pair of Bronze Candlesticks in Manner of Tiffany, ca. 1880s
Located in New York, NY
American Aesthetic Movement
Pair of Bronze Candlesticks
in Manner of Tiffany
ca. 1880s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 18.25 inches
Width: 3.25 inches
Depth: 3.25 inches
ABOUT
This elegant pa...
Category
Antique 1880s American Aesthetic Movement Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze
A Pair of Bronze Neoclassical Grand Tour Candelabras, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour
Pair of Bronze Candelabras
Late 19th Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 10.33 inches
Width: 4.75 inches
Depth: 4.75 inches
ABOUT
We present to your attention a pair of stunning...
Category
Antique 1890s English Grand Tour Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Art Deco Bronze and Green Agate Vide-Poche, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Austrian Art Deco
Vide-Poche
Bronze and Green Agate
ca. 1920s
ABOUT
Vide Poche (meaning 'empty pocket' in French) is intended to be a trinket tray used for holding the contents of ...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Agate, Bronze
American Art Deco Chromed Metal Table Lamp w/ Leather Insert Stem, ca. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Table Lamp
Chromed Metal & Leather
ca. 1930s
ABOUT
Art Deco table lamps are a classic and elegant addition to any home, thanks to their sleek, geometric shapes a...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Auguste Rodin, Age of Bronze, Male Nude Patinated Bronze Statue Re-Cast, XX C.
By Auguste Rodin
Located in New York, NY
Auguste Rodin
Age of Bronze
Patinated Bronze Sculpture Re-Cast
XX Century
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Rodin's breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'airain) caused a critical scandal ...
Category
20th Century French Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Wrought Iron Pedestal w/ Marble Top, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco
Pedestal
Wrought Iron & Marble
France, circa 1920s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 30.5 inches
Top diameter: 12.25 inches
Base width: 11.75 inches
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Wrought Iron
Japanese Art Nouveau Awaji Ware Art Studio Pottery Flower Vase, ca. 1900s
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Art Nouveau
Flower Vase
Awaji Ware Art Studio Pottery
ca. 1900s
ABOUT AWAJI WARE ART STUDIO POTTERY
Awaji pottery was made on the Japanese island of the same name between...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Pottery
Modernist Female Head Bust in Marble by P. Costagli, XX Century
Located in New York, NY
Modernism
P. Costagli
Female Head Bust
Marble
Italy, XX Century
ABOUT
This enigmatic marble head bust of African female in an unusual headdress is...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Modern Busts
Materials
Marble
American Art Deco Anodized & Painted Metal Planter, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
American Art Deco
Planter with Geometrical Design
Anodized & Painted Metal
ca. 1920s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 13.5 inches
Width: 14.5 inches
Depth: 8.25 inches
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal
Japanese Art Deco Ikebana Chromed Metal Basket, ca. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco
Ikebana Basket
Chromed Metal
Japan, ca. 1930s
ABOUT
Ikebana is the Japanese art of of beautifully arranging cut stems, leaves, and flowers in vases and other containers t...
Category
Vintage 1930s Japanese Art Deco Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal
After Francisco Ruiz Gijon, St. Francis, Spanish Baroque Wood Sculpture, 17th C.
Located in New York, NY
Baroque
After Francisco Ruiz Gijon
Saint Francis of Assisi
Polychrome and Parcel Gilt Carved Wood, Insert Glass Eyes
Spain, Late 17th Century
Francisc...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
French Art Nouveau Etched Crystal and Silver Repose Perfume Bottle, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions:
Height 5 1/2 inches
Maximum width 3 1/2 inches
Bottom diameter 2 7/8 inches.
Both, the neck and the top cover of the lid are stamped with a full set of French hallmarks, half-erased due to long-term use and therefore illegible. The repose bouquet of Irises on the cover is stamped with an essayist' hallmark, containing artist initials "RD".
Fine and unusual French antique perfume bottle of a superb quality and workmanship; can also function as a body lotion or bath salt...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Bottles
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
French Art Nouveau Iridescent Stoneware & Bronze Vase or Cachepot, ca. 1900s
Located in New York, NY
French Art Nouveau
Ocean Life Theme
Vase Cachepot
Iridescent Stoneware & Patinated Bronze Crab Appliqué
ca. 1900s
ABOUT
We present here a most unusual and utterly decorative Fren...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Alfredo Castellani Att., Bronze & Marble Paperknife, ca. 1880s
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to
Alfredo Castellani
Paperknife
Patinated Bronze & Marble
Italy, ca. 1880s
ABOUT
These Castellani paper cutters, paperknives or lette...
Category
Antique 1880s Italian Renaissance Letter Openers
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Japanese Patinated Bronze Candelabras, Meiji Period, ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
This most unusual pair of original 18th century Japanese patinated bronze candelabras, uniquely designed as branches of mountain flowers entangled by a dragon, are mounted on the con...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
American Art Deco Carved Ebonized Wood Head Bust of a Young Boy, ca. 1940s
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT SCULPTURE
This wonderful sculptural and portrait work was certainly created by a master sculptor, although not signed by the author. The face of this typical all-American boy, ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
American Streamline Art Deco Grand Lucite Floor Table Lamp, ca. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This magnificent floor lamp or table lamp of the American Streamline Art Deco period floor lamp or table lamp is made with bound Luc...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Floor Lamps
Materials
Lucite
Austrian Jugendstil Bronze Table Lamp w/ Art Glass Medallions, c. 1900
Located in New York, NY
DIMENSIONS
Height: 23 inches
Width: 18.5 inches
Depth: 15 inches
ABOUT AUSTRIAN JUGENDSTIL (ART NOUVEAU)
Towards the end of the 19th century, the world of fine arts had a nicely co...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Water Bearer Under Palm Tree, Jugenstil Bronze Table Lamp by F.O. Klar, ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
Austrian Jugenstil
F.O. Klar
Water Bearer Under Palm Tree
Table Lamp
Patinated Bronze
Table Lamp
Vienna, ca. 1900
DIMENSIONS
Height: 16 inches
Width: 7 inches
Depth: 7.5 inches
Category
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Period Carved Root Wood Serving Tray, ca. 1868-1912
Located in New York, NY
DIMENSIONS
Height: 9.25 inches
Width: 11.5 inches
Depth: 10.5 inches
ABOUT MEIJI PERIOD
The Meiji Era was the 44-year period of Japan's history from 1868 to 1912 when the country was under the rule of the great Emperor Mutsuhito. Also called the Meiji Emperor, he was the first ruler of Japan to wield actual political power in centuries.
It was during the Meiji period that Japanese art students first went to Europe to study Western painting, and developed a new style of painting based on these techniques, known as yoga (or ‘Western style’).
Yoga painting...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Other Lacquer
Materials
Wood
American Art Deco Female Nude Bronze Sculpture by Joseph C. Motto, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This wonderful sculpture in patinated bronze on an original black granite base depicting a nude young woman emerging from the water was created by Joseph C. Motto (American, 18...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Grand Bronze Iris Candelabra, ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT IRIS MOTIFS
Iris motifs were popular during the Arts & Crafts movement. The genus of this easy-to-stylize flower has nearly 300 varieties that bloom in many colors—thus its nam...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Vienna Bronze and Green Onyx Vide-Poche, ca. 1920s
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
A vide poche—French for empty pockets—is a valet tray or empty bowl used to collect change, keys, and daily miscellany. This unique object is created during the Art Deco era (c...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Modernist Bronze Sculpture of a Standing Man by L. Shore, 1953
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This wonderful Mid-Century Mordern sculpture of a standing man is clearly influenced by one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, Alberto Giacometti - Swiss scul...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Vally Wiethelthier, Drunken Sailor, Art Deco Art Ceramic Figurine, ca. 1925
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This funny, humorous tabletop ceramic figurine depicts a drunken sailor lying on his back. Around his neck is a metal ring with an anchor on it.
MARKINGS
Signed on the left buttock: "Italy".
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 2.5 inches
Width: 2 inches
Depth: 3.5 inches
VALERIE “VALLY” WIESELTHIER (Austrian-American, 1895 – 1945) was an outstanding ceramic artist. She was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Wilhelm Wieselthier was a lawyer. Valluy attended theWiener Frauenacademie in Vienna from 1912 to 1914 and studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Rosalinda Rothhansl, Kolo Moser, Jodef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny from 1914 to 1920. In addition, she worked as an auxiliary nurse during the First World War.
From 1917 to 1922, she worked for the Wiener Werkstatte. From 1922 to 1927, she ran her own ceramic workshop in cooperation with the Augarten porcelain factory, which was newly founded in 1923, but also with other companies such as Friedrich Goldschider, Gmundner Keramik and Lobmeyr.
Her expressive and humorous porcelain figures attracted attention at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris in 1925 and are considered typical examples of the Art Deco style style. From 1928, the artist increasingly moved her center of life to the United States. She went to the International Exhibition of Ceramic Art in New York City in October 1928. In 1933, she moved to Chicago with Paul Lester Wiener...
Category
Vintage 1920s Italian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Hendrik Scholter, Capitalist & Proletarian, Dutch Art Deco Bronze, ca. 1930s
By Hendrik Scholter
Located in New York, NY
DIMENSIONS
Height: 9.5 inches
Width: 6.5 inches
Depth: 3.75 inches
MARKINGS
Brown-patinated bronze, inscribed on base: H. Scholter
Category
Vintage 1930s Dutch Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Austrian Jugendstil Vienna Bronze Sculptural Paperweight by Carl Fiala, ca. 1910
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT
This elegant Austrian Jugenstil sculptural desk paperweight depicts some fantastic half-human creature from the underwater world, riding a snail. Signed C. Fiala, dark-green co...
Category
Vintage 1910s Austrian Jugendstil Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
French Art Nouveau Crystal and Silver Perfume Bottle, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
DIMENSIONS
Height: 5 1/2 inches
Max. width: 3 1/2 inches
Bottom diameter: 2 7/8 inches
MARKINGS
Both, the neck and the top cover of the lid are stamped with a full set of French hallmarks, half-erased due to long-term use and therefore illegible.
ABOUT
This fine and unusual French antique perfume bottle of a superb quality and workmanship and can also function as a body lotion or bath salt...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Bottles
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Carl Kauba, Frightened by the Frog, Viennese Bronze Sculpture, circa 1915
By Carl Kauba
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions
Total Height: 7.5 inches
Base Height: 2 inches
Width: 2.75 inches
Depth: 2.75 inches
ABOUT
This charming desk figurine in dark brown patinated Viennese bronze by the famous Austrian sculptor Karl Kaub stands out for the originality and humor of its subject matter. The author depicted with amazing subtlety a boy who jumped on one leg in fright, suddenly seeing a frog sitting on his arm.
CARL KAUBA (Austrian, 1865-1922) was born August 13, 1865 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a shoemaker, Kauba chose to follow his calling into the world of art. Collectors now rank him in a class with Remington and Russell as one of the great portrayers of American Western. His subjects were typically American Indians, calvarymen, cowboys, and roughriders. In addition to his American bronzes, Kauba produced a lifetime’s worth of Austrian statuary. His work became fully appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic.
Carl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under professor Laufenberg. Later he would study at the academies under Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz. Next, he went to Paris in 1886 to further study before he set off for the U.S. In fact, some debate still remains as to whether Kauba ever visited the U.S.
Kauba’s fascination with the West was fired by the stories of the German writer, Carl May, whose tales of Western adventure were well known throughout Europe. Most authorities feel that he was about twenty-five years old when he traveled widely throughout the American West. He then returned to Austria with voluminous notes, sketches, and several models of Western sculpture...
Category
Vintage 1910s Austrian Jugendstil Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
