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Koloman Moser (attr.) / Portois & Fix Vienna Secession Center Table c.1902
KOLOMAN MOSER attr. (1868-1918) Austria
PORTOIS & FIX Vienna, Austria
Secessionist center table c. 1902
Exotic wood with brass inlaid squares, brass stretcher and feet with nickel-plated sabots
Marks: No. 29378 (inventory paper label), oval metal plaque in Russian with No. 798
***This table was likely exhibited at the 1902 Moscow Exhibition of Architecture and Applied Art and that is perhaps the reason for the Russian metal plaque.
For more information see: Art in Vienna, Peter Vergo (London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1975), p. 139, footnote 88, p. 247.
H: 29” x W: 29” x L: 42 1/4”
Price: $42,500
Koloman Moser (attr.) / Portois & Fix Vienna Secession Center Table c.1902
CHARLES GREBER France
“Chameleons” vase c. 1905
Stoneware with crystalline-structure glaze in creamy white beige and blue tones with floral motifs and three full scale chameleons perched on the edge.
Marks: C. Greber (incised script)
H: 6 1/4″ x Dia: 7 1/2″
The potter-sculptor has awakened Darwin’s theory of evolution with this vase and has furthermore humanized these reptiles with an amusing sense of cameraderie.