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  Sèvres / Genevieve Rault Rare French Art Nouveau grand vase 1907

  MLLE GENEVIÈVE RAULT (décor  1907)  France
  MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SÈVRES  France

  Andromeda branches grand vase   1907

  Glazed porcelain with pâte-sur-pâte applications. The multicolored “Andromeda” foliage and branches in shades of pink, salmon, green and taupe on a cream background.

  Marks: underglaze green S and 1907 (in triangular cipher), MANUFACTURE RF NATIONALE surrounding DÉCORÉ A SÈVRES 1907, underglaze blue GR (conjoined monogram).

  H: 16″ x Dia: 7 1/2″

  This example from the Sèvres Manufacture is a tour-de-force of early 20th century porcelain. The graphic Art Nouveau design of the pastel foliage and white blossoms of the Andromeda vase is brought to life thanks to the fine detailing of every individual blossom made with hand-applied pâte-sur-pâte or paste porcelain.

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  Christian Dell / Bauhaus “Tee-Ei” Tea infusers (Rare set of eight) 1924

  CHRISTIAN DELL (1893-1974)  Germany
  BAUHAUS  (1919-1933) Germany

  “Tee-Ei”  (tea ball) 1924 (rare set of 8)

  Silvered brass.

  ***These are all in fine original, untouched condition.

  Illustrated: Christian Dell: Silberschmied und Leuchtengestalter im 20. Jahrhundert, Beate Alice Hofmann, Museum Hanau (Hanau: Heller Druck,1996) illus. 15, p.56; Modernist Design 1880-1940, Alastair Duncan, The Norwest Collection (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors’ Club, 1998), p. 173; Decorative Arts 1850-1950, Judy Rudoe, (London: British Museum Press, 1991) cover,  p. 276; Die Metall Werkstatt am Bauhaus, (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, 1992) pp. 140-141 Silver of a New Era,  (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1992)  p. 157;  cat. no. 140.

  Length: 5 1/4″

  Price: $9,600

  Christian Dell, metal artist and industrial designer, played a formative role in shaping the Bauhaus style. Dell was the master of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus, 1922-25, in Weimar, working closely with László Moholy-Nagy.

  Born the son of a locksmith in Offenbach in 1893, he had a great impact as a teacher on the curriculum of the Weimar metal workshop. He had done an apprenticeship as a silversmith in Hanau before and had also attended the drawing academy, followed by a stay at the Weimar School of Applied Art. Henry van de Velde, director of this institution, coined Christian Dell’s early works with his organic-flowing use of forms, a feature that can also be observed on Dell’s later works.

  Metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar:
  From 1922, the former goldsmith, silversmith and coppersmith workshops of the Weimar phase became a laboratory for design where metal vessels and lamps were made. This is also where the designs for industry, as well as metal furniture, were ultimately created. In 1922, the silversmith Christian Dell took over as master of works. Following Itten’s departure in 1923, the workshop developed in a new direction with the Hungarian Constructivist László Moholy-Nagy. Instead of individual pieces, prototypes were now made for mass production. In order to manufacture the individual models, a production line was established.

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  Louis C. Tiffany / Tiffany Studios Rare Kettle-on-Stand c. 1902

  LOUIS C. TIFFANY (1848-1933) USA
  TIFFANY STUDIOS   New York

  Kettle-on-Stand   c.1902

  Silver on copper with carved teak wood handles and finial in an organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand with burner

  Marks: Tiffany Studios, New York (on all three pieces)

  Illustrated:  The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Donald L. Stover (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1981), p. 88, illus. 189 (description on p. 96); Tiffany at Auction, Alastair Duncan (New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, 1981) p. 50, pl. 137.

  A rare example of a subtle organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand emulating pooling water in a Japanese influenced design by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by Tiffany Studios

  H: 10 1/2″ x D: 8″ x W: 9″

   

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  Karl Berghof / Kayserzinn Extremely Rare German Jugendstil Art Nouveau Pewter Vase 1904

  KARL BERGHOF  Germany
  J. P. KAYSER SOHN  Krefeld, Germany

  Vase  1904

  Pewter squared vase with round flange top, open work details

  Marks: Kayserzinn 4541  7 (in a raised oval)

  Illustrated: Zinn des Jugendstils, Eckard Wagner (Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1978), p. 63, cat. no. 148; J. P. Kayser Sohn Krefeld: Fabrik kunstgewerblicher Metallgegenstände, Musterbuch 1907 (Munich: Verlag Dry, 1982) p. 46.

  ***This is an extremely rare, other worldly Kayserzinn form.

  H: 7” x Top W: 4 ¾” x  Base: 4 x 4 square