Historical Design I Tapio Wirkkala Finland sterling silver and walnut vase 1968

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Tapio Wirkkala Finland sterling silver and walnut vase 1968

TAPIO WIRKKALA (1915-1985) Finland
KULTAKESKUS OY Hämeenlinna

Vase 1968

Sterling silver in a streamlined sculptural form, canted cylindrical attached walnut plinth.

Marks: TW monogram, 916H (Finnish silver assay
mark), maker’s touch marks

Illustrated: Zilver uit Finland, exhib. cat., Leo De Ren (Antwerpen: Provinciaal Museum Sterckshof, 1995) p. 18.

H: 10 1/4″ x Dia: 3 1/4″

Price: $3,900

Tapio Wirkkala Finland sterling silver and walnut vase 1968

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Gucci “Ball bearing type mechanism” ring, 18K white gold set with diamonds along each edge with square cut out motif down the center, signed, c. 1980
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Edmond Lachenal French Art Nouveau Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900

EDMOND LACHENAL (1855-1930) Paris, France

Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900

Marks: E LACHENAL (impressed and glazed in a rectangle on base)

For information on Edmond Lachenal see:”Edmond Lachenal”, Fritz Minkus, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, IV (1901) pp.390-98; La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pelichet and Michèle Duperrex (Lausanne: Les Éditions du Grand-Pont, Switzerland, 1976) pp. 66,71,74,78,83,112,115; “l’Atelier Lachenal à la galerie Georges Petit “ in Les Echoes d’Art” (1933), p. Vll; Art Nouveau: Belgium & France, exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976), p. 48; Le Japonisme (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1988) cat no. 377, p. 321; Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Siegfried Wichmann (Parklane: New York, 1980) pp. 339, 349; cat. no. 920.

H: 9″ x W: 6 3/4″