John Baldwin Nude Couple in Bed Unique Hand Carved Sculptural Wooden Plaque

A stunning modern hand carved figure of a heron by renowned British wood carver Michael John Crook and dating from the latter 20th or very early 21st Century. The figure stands mount...

A stunning Italian mid-century modernist art pottery wall plaque or shallow bowl decorated with a textured design and signed to the base. The heavily hand-made red clay plaque is of ...

A stylish and unusual Austrian/Czech attributed Art Deco pottery face wall mask of a lady attributed to Walter Bosse in the manner of Wiener Werkstätte dating from around 1930. The m...

A stylish vintage African hand-carved twin handled wooden bowl dating from the early to mid-20th century. The bowl is made from a single piece of native wood and is of wide shallow r...

Three Brutalist style wall plaques in manner of Paul Evans. All of them have very nice detail. Not signed. All pieces measure height 25" and width 18".

'Calibrated to Balance' is a unique red, green, yellow, teal and amber hand-blown and cut glass hanging artwork with steel frame by the American and Swiss artists, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg. Exquisitely handblown and cut to the highest quality and refinement, the elements have been composed and suspended on a steel frame ready for wall hanging. Increasingly the artists have become more sculptural in focus, while seeking to imbue their work with a deep connection to archetypal forms and shapes, and striving for the highest level of craftsmanship. They address eternal symbols of human culture and history, primarily through blown glass, but also using steel, and constructions in other materials. Baldwin (1947, New York) and Guggisberg (1955, Bern) have been a collaborative team for over forty years. They share an instinctive appreciation for the subtle blending of art and design, functionality and abstract expression, combined with a love of material – especially glass. The list of museums and collections which have acquired their works is long and impressive. Individual showings, as well as participation in group shows, have given them opportunities to present their works at leading galleries and in major museums in Europe, Japan and the United States and their works rank among the best to be found in the international glass art scene. Working freelance, they have also designed successful products for international glass manufacturers since 1985. Their clients have included renowned firms like Rosenthal, Steuben, Corning and Venini. Over time their work has developed its own distinctive signature, based in Italian cold-working (battuto) combined with the Swedish overlay process for layering colours. They have been pioneers in adapting these techniques and in creating a distinct expression of their own. Colour, light, texture, pattern, and shape together reveal an undercurrent of meaning and value, adhering to the simplest of forms and clear lines. Over the years they have become more sculptural in focus, while seeking to imbue their work with a deep connection to archetypal forms and shapes, and striving for the highest level of craftsmanship. They address eternal symbols of human culture and history, while embracing contemporary evolution in form and meaning. In recent years large installations and major exhibitions in public spaces, such as Canterbury Cathedral...

Title: Stump Speech, #4 Year: 2013 A to-scale rendering of the cross section of a tree discovered in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, comprising hundreds of c...

Antique Chinese hand-carved lacquered wooden wall plaque.