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By Juan De Ávalos Y García-taborda
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remarkable and unique, this carved and painted wood relief sculpture depicts two nude male figures, one assistin...
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Vintage 1930s Spanish Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
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Wood
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Undoubtedly the most important example of American Surrealism we have ever offered, this 1933-vintage painting b...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This powerful depiction of a half-nude man capturing a fish in his conical basket -- much like men and women hav...
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Vintage 1950s South African Mid-Century Modern Paintings
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Paint
By M. Mascherini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the great, indisputable masterpieces of Marcello Mascherini's career, and one of his relatively early wor...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
By Wheeler Williams
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sculpted by Wheeler Williams, one of the masters of Art Deco sculpture in America, this unique covered urn featu...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Urns
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Ceramic
By Georges Engrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and handsome, this sculpture of a nude male runner, probably cast for the art competition at the 1924 Olymp...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly conceived and executed, this original maquette for a proposed Saturday Evening Post cover by Larry Segall...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Gloriously painted in a palette of blue, purple, white and yellow, this painting by Jocke Åkerblom depicts a lab...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Extremely rare, perhaps unique, this stunning pair of gilded bronze bookends depict the ancient figures of Comed...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Bookends
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Bronze
By Wilhelm Hunt Diederich
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and stunning example of Wilhelm Hunt Diederich's work at the height of the Art Deco era, this drawing de...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted with a strong, vivid palette which captures the brilliant sky, terra cotta roofs and golden walls of thi...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in a lovely, colorful palette and full of hope and symbolism, this painting by Jocke Åkerblom depicts a ...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Rometti Ceramics 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and very modern, this Art Deco teapot depicting a Cupid figure with his bow drawn, ready to strike his ...
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Vintage 1920s Italian Art Deco Ceramics
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Ceramic
By Misha Reznikoff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Compellingly drawn in a Cubist-influenced Art Deco manner, this strong and vivid portrait of a man in a driving ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
By Ernest d'Hossche
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large, substantial and visually stunning, this unique Art Deco low bowl -- designed to hang on a wall or sit on ...
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Vintage 1920s Belgian Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
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Ceramic
By Brenda Putnam
Located in Philadelphia, PA
In an era when artists were capturing the exoticism and athleticism of modern dancers, such as Richmond Barthé's depiction of Féral Benga dancing with a large, curved sword or Paul Colin's drawings of Josephine Baker with her skirt of bananas, this sensuous presentation of a nude male dancer with a long spear stands out. The bronze was sculpted in 1926 by Brenda Putnam, who is best known for a series of bronzes showing children at play, often placed in gardens and parks. However, Putnam was ambitious to do more, leaving academic sculpture behind as she collaborated with architect Paul Philippe Cret to create the Puck Fountain for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., executed a number of portraits in bronze, exhibited at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, and created "The Crest" -- consisting of a a large male nude swimming...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Teeming with allegory and symbolism, this large and elaborate study by Eugene Savage for a major mural to be exe...
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Vintage 1940s Paintings
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Paint
By Robert Riggs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Striking and important, this scene of two Colonial era figures -- probably father and son, one with reddish hair...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Porter Woodruff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely drawn and quiet in mood, this lovely drawing by Porter Woodruff depicts a seated, nude male figure from t...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted in the 1940s when Americans were traveling more widely and becoming deeply interested in "exotic" lands ...
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Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and striking, this high style Art Deco painting depicts a nude male archer with his bow stretched and his a...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Lu Duble
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the rarest and most important sculptures eminating from the ARKO ceramic school established by Alexander ...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Commissioned by Briger Design and made by Mexican artisans in San Miguel de Allende, this painted tole wastebask...
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1990s American Modern Decorative Baskets
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Metal
By Georg Jensen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Extraordinary in terms of both design and rarity, this trio of items for the table -- salt and pepper shakers an...
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Vintage 1930s Danish Art Deco Sterling Silver
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Silver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vivid and striking example of Art Deco painting, this depiction of St. Sebastian in tones of gold and pink-pap...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Salvator Riolo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although it seems that every major sculptor in the Art Deco period yearned to depict a nude archer pulling on hi...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Extremely rare, perhaps unique, this 1920s print of Orpheus charming the animals wi...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Prints
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This classic example of American Scene painting, depicting a group of four laborers loading the harvest onto a w...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fine and very early drawing by John B. Lear shows the care with which he captured the beauty, strength and ...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Drawings
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Paper
By Roger Mequinion
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully glazed and carved in tones of jade green and pale yellow, this unique bowl ringed with songbirds and...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Decorative Bowls
Materials
Ceramic
By James Owen Mahoney
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and important work by one of America's most important muralists working in the 1930s and 40s, this painti...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Thelma Frazier Winter, Cowan Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare survivor from a fleeting moment in Cowan Pottery's history, before it closed at the onset of the Great Depression, this plate designed by Thelma Frazier Winter...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Pottery
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Ceramic
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although Jais Nielsen was one of Denmark's most prominent and prolific artists in the early to mid-20th century,...
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Vintage 1950s Danish Art Deco Decorative Bowls
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Ceramic
By Dorothy Lathrop
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully and evocatively executed, this 1922 pen and ink drawing of a satyr figure watching over a child Pan playing his pipes and drawing a deer to the scene, was created by one of America's greatest illustrators in the years between World Wars I and II -- Dorothy Lathrop. This image accompanied a poem beginning "They Told me Pan Was Dead," one of a series of fantasy verses written by Walter de...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare and beautifully detailed etching by Sigmund Lipinsky depicts several of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus, dominated by Zeus and Athena, who are shown standing over a nude Hermes...
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Vintage 1920s German Art Deco Prints
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Paper
By Oscar Bruno Bach
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This domed bronze and mica lamp, a singular form, was crafted in the manner of Oscar Bach, America's foremost me...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps
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Bronze
By Gösta Adrian-Nilsson/ GAN
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Remarkable in size, subject and palette, this large tapestry presents Hanna Ripa's homage to a painting by Gösta...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Tapestries
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Fabric
By André Metthey
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Brilliantly glazed in tones of jade, deep turquoise and gold, this Persian-influenced Art Deco bowl was made by ...
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Vintage 1910s French Art Deco Decorative Bowls
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Ceramic
By Wilhelm Kage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This large and impressive vase by the Gustavsberg porcelain works in Sweden is rare for two reasons -- first, th...
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Vintage 1940s Swedish Art Deco Vases
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Silver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and full of energy, this pen and ink drawing depicts three nude male figures, their arms upraised, caught i...
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Vintage 1930s British Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
By Roger Mequinion
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and bold, this Art Deco ceramic platter featuring a mermaid trumpeting a shell and embracing a dolphin while another dolphin and starfish are cavorting in the water nearby, was made Roger Mequinion, who produced an entirely unique series of ceramic pieces with thick layers of glaze that he sandblasted to create a layered, three-dimensional design. Here, the outer glaze is a deep red color, but the sandblasting reveals layers of light red and white underneath. Mequinion was the first sculptor to work for René Lalique, and helped the master develop a sandblasting technique for his early glass...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Platters and Serveware
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Ceramic
By Eugene Francis Savage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A companion painting to another piece in our gallery, this painting -- "Truth and the Seven Deadly Sins" -- serv...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This lithe portrait of a slim boxer throwing a left jab, executed in pencil on thin paper, was executed by Franc...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Drawings
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Paper
By John Gregory
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautiful and sublime personification of contentment and bliss, this bronze was sculpted by John Gregory -- who later executed 9 large bas relief...
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Antique Early 1900s American Beaux Arts Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
By John Gregory
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extraordinary piece of American sculpture, this depiction of a young woman, dated 1930, was sculpted in white...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Marble
By Axel Locher, Bing & Grøndahl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large and extraordinary, this sculpture entitled "Victory" depicts a dignified Danish figure in honorific robes standing astride a crouching nude male figure. Clearly allegorical, the grouping may represent the victory of the Allies over the Central Powers...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Porcelain
By Angelo Simonetto
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extraordinary example of high style Art Deco design by one of Italy's masters in the 1930s -- Angelo Simonett...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Decorative Boxes
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Ceramic
By Fulper Pottery
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rare and striking, this Art Deco bowl by the renowned Fulper Pottery features its signature flambe glazes inside the bowl -- in shades of caramel, green and blue -- in addition to three Medieval-influenced shields applied to the rim, each with knight's helmet and star motifs. Founded in 1809, Fulper produced utilitarian ware in the Trenton, New Jersey area for many years, but in 1910 Martin Stangl became the ceramics engineer and artistic director, producing a line of Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Decorative Bowls
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Ceramic
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A gorgeous example of Cubist-Art Deco design, this 19th century book was given a new cover and end papers design...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Decorative Art
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Beautifully expressed in tones of blue, gray, green and gold, this fabulous Mid Century enamel panel shows an eg...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
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Enamel
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although John Lear entitled this drawing "Confrontation," the half-nude male figure and the falcon on the other ...
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Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Drawings
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Paper
By Emmanuel Andrew Cavacos
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and superb depiction of modern dance in the era of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and modern dance pione...
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Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking combination of realism and abstraction, this portrait of a nude male youth with his arms behind his n...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Gino Severini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Boldly painted in vivid hues of red, deep pink, yellow and shades of blue, this abstract painting is attributed ...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Modern Paintings
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Paint
By Vicke Lindstrand
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unusually dramatic and flamboyant, this is one of the most distinctive engraved Art Deco vases we have seen by V...
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Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Deco Vases
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Glass
By Felix Meseck
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Centered around a young man in a blue swimsuit who is lost in thought, looking into the distance, this atmospher...
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Vintage 1930s German Art Deco Paintings
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Paint
By Kai Nielsen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Although paintings by Rubens and Poussin offer the most famous depictions of the Abduction of the Sabine Women -...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
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Ceramic
By Carl Sorensen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and impressive work by Carl Sorensen -- who maintained a workshop in Philadelphia in the 1910s and later worked for Walt Disney in the late 1920s and 1930s -- this large bronze tray...
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Platters and Serveware
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Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This pair of prints was issued by Lumen Martin Winter, the mosaic artist, to illustrate two enormous murals...
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Vintage 1950s American Art Deco Prints
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Paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Dramatic -- appropriately! -- and well crafted, this pair of copper repoussé, wall-mounted masks depict the clas...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Art Deco Wall-mounted Sculptures
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Copper
