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  Mathilde Augé / Ely Vial Limoges French Art Nouveau Eucalyptus vase c. 1900

  MATHILDE AUGÉ France

  ELY VIAL  France

  Eucalyptus vase   c. 1900

  Colored enamels on copper with foil-backing depicting eucalyptus berries and leaves, gilt details

  Signed: MA (artist’s monogram)

  For more information see:  The Paris Salons 1895-1914 Jewellery, Vol. I: Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994), p. 44; The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Objets d’Art et Metalwork, Vol. 5, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1994) p. 58; 1900, Philippe Thiébaut et al., exhib. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000), p. 256.

  H: 10 1/2″ x Dia: 4 1/2″

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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.