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  Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Aventurine blown glass Clutha vase c. 1895

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow

  Clutha vase   c. 1895

  Aventurine blown glass with iridescent gold streaks and internal bubbles

  Illustration: Christopher Dresser, Widar Halen (Oxford: Phaidon, Christies Limited, 1990) p. 196, illust. 228.

  For more information: Liberty Style: the classic years, 1898-1910, Mervyn Levy (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1986); Christopher Dresser: the power of design, Christopher Wilk (New York: Zurland – Zabar, 1993).

  H: 19 3/8 ”

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  Francois-Emile Decorchement French Art Deco “Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase 1926

  FRANÇOIS-EMILE DECORCHEMENT  (1880-1971)  France

  “Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase   c. 1926

  Cobalt blue pâte-de-crystal (lost wax cast crystal) with mauve inclusions, two low-relief friezes of varying abstract vine motifs
  Impressed:  DECORCHEMENT  in a lunette seal, numbered A 865

  For more information on Decorchement see: Art Deco, Victor Arwas (New York: Harry N. Abrams,1980) pp. 268-69, 298.

  H: 4 1/2″ x Dia: 4 3/4″

  Decorchement, Francois Emile. (1880-1970) He set up a glass house in Conches in 1902 producing exquisite pate-de-verre, statuettes, bowls and vases. He extended this range to encompass a rougher hewn surface with motifs of flowers and sometimes insects. His designs became increasingly abstract during the 1930s toward the outbreak of the Second World War; these were often executed in pate-de-cristal. Later the production continued although in a more restrained manner with softer semi-opaque and translucent colors.

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  Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Blown glass cabinet vase c. 1890

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow, Scotland

  “Clutha” vase c. 1890

  Blown glass with a strawberry red and green swirl design and internal bubbles

  Marks: CLUTHA DESIGNED BY CD REGISTERED (acid etched)

  Illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 72/73

  H: 3 1/4″

   

   

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  Gustavo Perez, Mexican Contemporary Pottery, Ceramic vase 2000

  GUSTAVO PEREZ Mexico

  Stoneware vase 2000

  Black, randomly positioned rectangles on a cream / sandy base with a pinned overlap detail

  Signed: GP 2000-68

  H: 9 1/4″ x D: 6 1/2″

  Price: $5,500

  Gustavo Pérez makes vessels that are simple, smooth and symmetrical. Their elegance is due to the precision of the incised lines and other markings on the pots. While using the same clay body—sand colored stoneware—throughout his work, the artist achieves a wide range of form and pattern and includes slowly undulating walls beneath the subtly incised surfaces.

  Gustavo Pérez works are incessantly experimental. There have been parallel lines, calligraphic traces, geometric cuts into the surface, minimalist vessels, recollections of pre-Hispanic vases and references to other ancient cultures.

  The ceramics of Gustavo Pérez are distinguished by eliminating superfluous details, by synthesis of his elements. During the past two decades he has created a visual language that seems closely aligned with music. Pure in form, with a significant structure, completely abstract and without specific associations, his language of line, the bending of forms, and the definition of the vessel mark his work as a distinctive voice. The form is not just a container or a receptacle; it is architecture.