Hugo Elmquist Sweden Art Nouveau Butterfly vase c. 1904

HUGO ELMQUIST  (1862-1930) Sweden

Butterfly vase  c. 1904

Patinated bronze with rich green brown patina, low relief butterfly and vines with two articulated handles.

Marks:  Hugo Elmquist Firenze  (incised initials)

Other examples illustrated:  Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England:  The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998), p. 85; Die Jugendstil-Sammlung, Heinz Spielmann, et. al., vol. 1, Künstler A-F (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1979), p. 451,
illus. 635.

H: 9 1/2″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

Price: $2,800