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  Bulgari, Rome, Revivalist “Lion Recumbent” wide bracelet, 18k gold with an elaborate woven edge detail and further decorated with 22 full figure resting lions, signed: BVLGARI, Made in Italy, 18k, original brown leather envelope, c.1940’s

  Length: 7 ½ inches x Width: 1½ inches

  Weight: 5.55 Troy ounces / 172.7 grams / 111 pennyweights

  *** The lion motif is modeled after the famous recumbent lions by Antonio Canova (Italy, 1757-1822), made for the monumental tomb of Clement XIII at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome

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  Jan Van Der Vaart / Dutch Avant-Garde Pottery “I-beam” Vase, 1991

  JAN VAN DER VAART (1931-2000) The Netherlands

  I-beam vase 1991

  Matte bronze glazed stoneware

  Signed: 91 VD VAART (incised)

  For more information on Van der Vaart and his work see: Jan van der Vaart, Ceramics, Marjan Unger, et al. (The Netherlands: Stichting Harten Fonds, 1991); Jan van der Vaart Multipels 1967-1997, Allaard Hidding (Leeuwarden: Keramiekmuseum Het Princessehof, 1997), illus. 88, p. 88.

  H: 9 1/2” x W: 10 1/8” x D: 5 1/2”

  Price: $8,000

  Jan van der Vaart, born in 1931, is one of the Netherlands’ best known potters. He was not only a trend-setting artist and industrial designer, he also taught an entire generation of Dutch ceramicists while teaching at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1968-1990). His work is in the collection of many Dutch museums, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.