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Moretti Carlo Murano Small Vase In Colored Opaline Glass
By Carlo Moretti
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Smal...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Art Deco Saint Louis Style Pair of French Cut and Grinded Lead Crystal Vases
By Saint Louis
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Refi...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vases
Materials
Crystal
Porcelain de Paris Pair of Hand Painted Vases Napoleon III, France
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Pair ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain De Paris Napoleon III Pair of French Hand Painted Vases
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Beau...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Napoleon III Porcelain De Paris Hand-Painted French Cachepot
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This elegant an...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Planters, Cachepots and Ja...
Materials
Porcelain
Mandruzzato Murano Attributed Colored And Faceted Submerged Glass Vase
By Mandruzzato
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This substantial and strea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Gucci Style Italian Steel And Brass Photo Frame
By Gucci
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This elegant and uniq...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Picture Frames
Materials
Brass, Steel
Art Deco Saint-Clément Style French Panther In Antique Glazed Red Ceramic
By Saint-Clément
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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A stunning and large Art De...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Napoleon III Cachepot in Porcelaine de Paris Hand Painted France
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Elega...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Style Pair of English Toilet Flasks Crystal Ground and Sterling Silver
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Particular pair of toilet bottles in cut and ground by hand crystal; for their execution it was used crystal with a percentage of lead of 30%; the high lead content, instead of calcium present in the common glass, gives the crystal a remarkable hardness, exceptional transparency, and a high refractive index; with the techniques of cutting, grinding and polishing, scrupulously performed by hand, extraordinary light effects and reflections were created; the bottles with the ball body are surmounted by a silver neck and a hinged lid finely chiseled with Victorian motifs. They bear the Classic English silver punches from which we can tell that they were produced in the Victorian style in the city of Birmingham in 1907 (Edward VII) by the firm Phineas Harris Levi & Joseph Wolfe Salaman. The company was founded in 1870 in Birmingham on Northampton Street, in 1872 moved to larger premises on Hockley Street and in 1885 the business was finally moved to a prestigious building on Newhall Street. Levi & Salaman produced much Fine silverware...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Napoleon III, Pair of French Cachepots in Hand-Painted Porcelain de Paris
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This eleg...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Planters, Cachepots and Ja...
Materials
Porcelain
Art Nouveau Style Italian Ground Crystal Cup With Square Base
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Category
Late 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal
Italian Midcentury Large Crystal Vase Ground, Cut, And Polished By Hand
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This exceptional Ita...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Crystal
Florentine Renaissance Style Huge Italian Cut And Ground Crystal Medici Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Huge and monumental Florentine Renaissance-style vase...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Renaissance Vases
Materials
Crystal
Moretti Carlo Murano Vase in Colored Opaline Glass
By Carlo Moretti
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Valu...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Neoclassical Style Italian Chalice-Shaped Vase in Ground and Diamond Crystal
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Category
Late 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Vases
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Italian Head in White Glazed Ceramic
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Orig...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Busts
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Italian Desk or Coffee Table Set in Plexiglass and Brass
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Rational and linear desk...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Brass
Vintage French Rose Glazed Earthenware Centerpiece Woven Tableware
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Orig...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Mannelli F.Lli Travertine Ornaments Three Swans Minimalist Style
By Enzo Mari, Fratelli Mannelli
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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A ni...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Minimalist More Desk Accessories
Materials
Travertine
Fat Lava Style German Colored Ceramic Glazed Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Particular and original German ceramic vase colored with a beautiful shade of red and a dark and vivid black; it has a simple shape but at the same time innovative and modernist; the beautiful and bright colors are balanced and proportioned respecting a minimalist design; the glazing of the vase was obtained by first laying down one color, proceeding to fix it by firing it in the kiln, then the same procedure was carried out for the other color; on the bottom is the mark "W. Germany"; it was produced between 1968 and 1971 in a craft workshop in the city of Dresden (then in East Germany), an important center for the production of porcelain and ceramics. "Fat lava" is the name given to a certain style of East German art...
Category
Late 20th Century German Brutalist Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Green Vase, Barbotine Ceramic, Poët-Laval (France)
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Napoleon III Style Pair of Hand-Painted Opaline Glass Vases
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This exclusive pai...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Opaline Glass
Art Decò Green Enameled Terracotta Vase with Pure Gold Decorations, France
By Sainte Radegonde
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Parti...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Art Deco, French Lead Crystal Vase In The Vannes-Le-Châtel Style
By Art Vannes
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This is an exceptional and significant clear lead...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vases
Materials
Crystal
Art Deco Large Italian Bi-Color Crystal Vase Cut And Ground By Hand
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection o...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Art Deco Vases
Materials
Crystal
Biedermeier Style Bohemian Cut And Ground Crystal Liquor Bottle
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Hand...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Biedermeier Bottles
Materials
Crystal
Murano Glass Multicolored Vase Mod. "Fazzoletto" Venini Style
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Iconic and original yellow opaline Murano glass vase; the vase was blown in one piece without joints; the most difficult and special operation was to leave the yellow opaline inside and make the outside with multiple colors; various colored oxides were applied when the draft of the yellow opaline vase...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
18th Century French Huge Copper Water Container
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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The c...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Country Jars
Materials
Copper
Italian Whiskey Bottle And Two Tumblers All With Fish Grindings
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration we must make an important clarification, the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the collection museum o...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Materials
Crystal
Art Noveau Style Large Crystal Vase Engraved With Butterflies And Dragonflies
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Sons company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase with a black base; the decorations, purely Art Noveau, represent graceful butterflies and dragonflies in a peaceful lake landscape. The object is "one-of-a-kind" signed by the Master; it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1982 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving, and polishing) we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase found in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the 16th-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Crystal
Opaline Florence VB Large Italian Multicolor Vase Vetreria Barbieri Empoli
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Large and valuable...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Opaline Glass
Regnier, Bettanier, Morlon, French Color Lithographs With Period Gold Leaf Frame
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Parti...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Picture Frames
Materials
Wood, Paper
Moretti Carlo Murano Vase In Colored Opaline Glass
By Carlo Moretti
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Valu...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Napoleon III Style French Walnut Table Box
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Eleg...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut, Paper
Italian Mid Century Pair of Brass Flamingos in Hollow
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Fat Lava Brutalist Style Hungarian Colored Ceramic Glazed Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Pecul...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hungarian Brutalist Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco French Marble Clock And Bronzed Metal Bird
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Uniq...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Metal
Italian Rococo Style Pair of Silver Candlesticks
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Parti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Rococo Candlesticks
Materials
Silver
Chinese Lacquer Hand-Painted Toiletry Box with Mirror
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Valua...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Lacquer
Materials
Wood
Nason V. Murano Empty Pockets (Bowl) In Blown And "Incamiciato" Glass.
By Vincenzo Nason & Cie
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Muran...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Murano Glass
Porcelain de Paris Pair French Wedding Vases for Church
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Lovely and romantic French wedding vases...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain De Paris Napoleon III Style Pair of Shaped Vases Hand Decorated
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Part...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
French Grey Opaline Glass Vase with Hand Painted Flowers Liberty Style
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This delightf...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Opaline Glass
Paolo De Poli Style Italian Enameled Copper Bowl.
By Paolo De Poli
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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This lovely a...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Vintage French Porcelain Round Vase with Painted African Women and Pure Gold
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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French round vase...
Category
Early 2000s French Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
La Rochère French Night Bottle Blown and “Incamiciato”Glass
By La Rochere
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Valu...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Art Deco Production Daum Design Pierre d'Avesn French Molded Glass Bowl
By Daum, Pierre D'Avesn
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Origi...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Glass
Materials
Glass
Gustave Asch Sainte Radegonde Pair of Blue Glazed Terracotta Vases
By Gustave Asch
Located in Prato, Tuscany
Tan France Auction Pick
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Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Biedermeier Style Bohemia Cut And Ground Red Crystal Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Delight...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Biedermeier Vases
Materials
Crystal
Art Nouveau Patinated Plaster of Paris Sculpture by Joseph Zomers Belgium
By Joseph Zomers
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Statuette of a naked woman sitting in patinated plaster of Paris; plaster of Paris, is a very resistant material, used since ancient times, it was used by the ancient Egyptians as a binder in the construction of the pyramids and is used in sculpture for its strength, the name is linked to the ancient quarries of Montmartre in Paris; the statue is a work of the famous Belgian sculptor and bronze artist Joseph Zomers which he executed between 1915 and 1920 and whose signature is on the pedestal. The woman is represented posing with ill-concealed malice and shows without reticence her body with a thin erotic veil, the artist has not executed the face precisely to accentuate a mysterious charm; it is a figure of harmonic proportions that takes into greater consideration the erotic connotations, however, a refined and elegant eroticism that presents itself in a courteous manner, subtle and suggestive but at the same time provocative and irreverent; the woman, in her most intimate dimension, as a naked presence, defenseless but seductive, becomes the embodiment of the poetic essence of the artist, the emblematic figure of his aesthetics. It is an object in perfect Art Nouveau style (Jugendstil), in fact, many artists of this current used eroticism as their work, portraying women as ethereal and fatal beings, letting themselves be inspired by "le beau sexe" thanks to their naked forms, soft and seductive. Joseph Zomers was born in Liege in Belgium in 1895 and died in 1928; he studied art in Maredsous (Belgium), many of his works are permanently exhibited at the Musèe de Liège; Zomers is well known for his public monument "Tchantchès" in Liege. This great work in stone and bronze is located in the Otremeuse district in Rue Pont-Saint-Nicolas; designed by Joseph Zomers, the statue represents a "hiercheuse", the name was given to the women who pulled the carts in the mine, a tribute to those valiant young people vilified and victims of the exploitation of women's labor, the woman holds aloft the puppet of Tchantchès. Tchantchès is the name given to a puppet that appeared in Liège in the 19th century. The popular character, Tchantchès became over time the archetype of the goodman of Liege, witty and good-natured, wise and subtle, quick to find resolutions and fertile in resources, when he is depressed, he recovers with a joke that reveals the popular Walloon citizen, mocking and sentimental. It was therefore fitting to erect a monument to these two popular and significant symbols of the proud city...
Category
Vintage 1910s Belgian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Porcelain De Paris French Wedding Vase For The Church
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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A rare and romantic French wedding vase...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Craftsmanship Hand-Cut and Hand-Polished Beveled Crystal Vase
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Vases
Materials
Crystal
Neoclassical Parisian Style Beaux Arts Pair of French Bottles
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Refined and elegant pair of French crystal bottles; their shape is classically bulb-shaped; they have simple and delicate grinding; the pointed caps have been ground with a precise facet to enhance the refraction of light; made in Beaux-Arts style between 1900 and 1905 by a Craft company near Paris; the Parisian style...
Category
Early 20th Century French Beaux Arts Crystal Serveware
Materials
Crystal
Art Deco French Sculpture of Two Fish in Craquelé Porcelain
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Nice ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Longwy Large French Glazed Ceramic Table Centerpiece Multicolor
By Faïenceries et Emaux de Longwy
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Large...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Vintage Pair of French Vases in Colored Porcelain Stoneware 'Gres'
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Interesting and particular pair of French vases...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Ruscha Keramik Germany Vintage Ceramic Vase With Japanese Decoration
By Ruscha
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Black ceramic vase with Japanese decoration painted and enameled in relief, this vintage product was made between 1960 and 1965 by Ruscha Keramik...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Bronze Statuette Depicting A Young Gymnast
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Iconic and particular statuette in cast bronze...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rockabilly Style French Centrepiece Red and Black Ceramic
Located in Prato, Tuscany
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Red and black ceramic table centerpiece made in Rockabilly style, the colors are strong and decisive, the black has the distinction of having beautiful reflections nacreè (mother of pearl), reflections that unfortunately the photos can not capture, from life are really seductive, the form is nicely undulating, pleasant and very capacious; the centerpiece was produced between 1950 and 1953, by skilled artisans in the area of Vallauris, the "French city of ceramics" in Provence north-east of Cannes, renowned since ancient times for the production of this fascinating material; there were more than 250 production centers, but today very few remain and since the mid-20th century, they are dedicated to the manufacture of contemporary ceramics. The word "Rockabilly" is a combination of "rock and roll" and "hillbilly" (a derogatory term used to define the Appalachian mountain people and, in a generic sense, meant country boor); Rockabilly was a musical genre developed in the early 1950s, it was one of the first forms of rock & roll. It was a fusion of bluegrass, country, boogie-woogie, and jazz, originally from the southern United States, and was played and sung by artists such as Buddy Holly...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic