Willem Brouwer Dutch Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts Pottery Vase c. 1905
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Willem Brouwer Dutch Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts Pottery Vase c. 1905
WILLEM COENRAAD BROUWER (1877-1933) The Netherlands
POTTERIJ VREDELUST Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Vase with handles c. 1905
Brown glazed red clay with tan light brown cut out overlaid and sgraffito decoration in a stylized organic motif, two applied looping handles
Marks: Brouwer 139 (incised)
For similar work see: Dutch Decorative Arts 1880-1940, eds. Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot, Frans Leidelmeijer (New York: Battledore Ltd.,1997),p. 56; Leven in een verzameling: Toegepaste kunst 1890-1940 uit de collectie Meentwijck (Laren: Singer Museum, 2000), illus. 76, 77, p. 74.
For more information on Brouwer see: Art Nouveau en Art Deco in Nederland: verzamelobjecten uit de vernieuwingen in de kunstnijverheid van 1890 tot 1940, Frans Leidelmeijer and Daan van der Cingel (city unknown: Meulenhoff/ Landshoff, 1983), pp. 80-82.
Silver-plated copper with with red patinated squares and rectangles on a black-patinated textured background
Marks: WMF castle mark, IKORA
Illustrated: WMF Ikora Metall / Metalwork, Carlo Burschel and Heinz Scheiffele (Stuttgart, Germany: ARNOLDSCHE, 2006), p. 142, 90/585.
For more information see: WMF Glas Keramik Metall 1925-1950, Jörg Schwandt, (Berlin: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museum Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1981). Metallkunst, Band IV (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1981) pp. 546-579.
Flavio Poli / Seguso Vetri d’Arte Brown Murano Art glass vase c. 1950’s
FLAVIO POLI (1900-1984) Italy
SEGUSO VETRI D’ARTE Italy
Vase c. 1950’s
Asymmetric vase in a dark brown Murano glass cased inside with a layer of pale green and clear glass
H: 10 1/2″ x W: 5 1/2″ x D: 2 3/4″
Price: $4,000
Designer, businessman, ceramic artist. Born in Chioggia, he attended the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia and began work as a designer in ceramics. in 1929 he switched to glass and for Libero Vitali’s I.V.A.M. he designed animals, splendid Novecento-style nude figures in massiccio glass, as well as bowls and urns with figures resting on the inside, on lids or as handles. He subsequently collaborated with the Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, with the furnace of Mario and Lino Nason and with the engraver Gino Francesconi. in 1934 he accepted the artistic direction of Barovier, Seguso & Ferro, later to become Seguso Vetri d’Arte, and became partner three years later. Together with the master of the principal team Archimede Seguso, Poli was the author of grandiose lighting installations, of corroded vessels, of sculptures in bulicante glass, of animals in massiccio glass shaped while hot, productions which represented a milestone in the development of Murano glass. At the height of his artistic maturity, in the years between 1950 and 1960 he designed a series of sommerso glass pieces in a Nordic style, essential forms and sharp cold colors, which were awarded prestigious prizes (Compasso d’Oro). After leaving Seguso in 1963, between 1964 and 1966 he organized the artistic glass division at the Societˆ Veneziana di Conterie e Cristallerie.
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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