Product Description
Olivier de Sorra / Pierrefonds (Count Hallez d’Arros) French Art Nouveau six branch vase c. 1900
OLIVIER DE SORRA
SOCIETE FAIENCIERE HERALDIQUE DE PIERREFONDS
Six-branch vase c. 1900
Copper color glaze with blue oxide flower crystallization
H: 11″ x Dia: 9″
Price: $7,250
The Societe Faienciere Heraldique de Pierrefonds pottery studio was founded in the village of Pierrefonds in 1903 by Count Hallez d’Arros and is renowned for it’s crystalline and flambe glazes
Olivier de Sorra / Pierrefonds (Count Hallez d’Arros) French Art Nouveau six branch vase c. 1900
STEINGUTFABRIKEN VELTEN-VORDAMM Werk Velten, Germany
Vase c. 1920
Handpainted and glazed earthenware
Marks: VELTEN-VORDAMM company logo
Similar work illustrated: Keramik und Bauhaus, Klaus Weber et al., exhib. cat. (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, 1989), p. 229, illus. 289.
H: 5” x Dia: 5 1/2″
ANDRÉ ARBUS (attr.) (1903-1969) France
Straw marquetry box c. 1940
Natural gold and ebony stained straw inlaid in a design of a window pane diamond pattern on the hinged lid, original suede cloth/paper interior, wood frame
For more information see: André Arbus: architecture-décorateur des années 40, Yvonne Brunhammer (Paris: l’Editions NORMA, 1996).
W: 8″ x D: 5 1/2″ x H: 1 1/2″