Copper Decorative Bowls

Created while a lead designer for J. Winhart & Co., Ludwig Vierthaler’s cicada themed copper vase showcases the design principles which he developed at J. Winhart in the pre-war years, where emphasis was placed on craftsmanship and the characteristics of the material itself. The vase’s ambiguous quality and use of allegory also shows his uncanny understanding of the dual nature of German life at the time. On the one hand, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany was asserting herself strongly in the Weltpolitik through alliances with other central-European powers and in making grand plans to grow in military strength. With hindsight, Vierthaler’s vase is all the more remarkable for his prescience in the twilight of an empire. By presenting a cicada, he evokes a conundrum. Is this cicada a strong adult, newly emerged from a long dormancy? Or is this the cicada...

Jan Eisenloeffel Copper Milk Jug, a rare object from the early period of his work. He became known for his austere designs for utensils executed in bot...

Elegant antique hand made and hand hammered Art Nouveau piece, this lidded copper pot has both style and function. Created in the early 1900's when the Arts & Crafts movement was at ...

Yellow copper bowl in a shape of a lotus. The bowl is signed by Frans Zwollo sr.(1872-1945), by the design of Lion Cachet (1864-1945) Both were members ...

A rare and unusual German Jugendstil copper and brass smokers companion or candleholder formed as a goat pulling a sleigh the design attributed to re...