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  Walter Nichols Chinese Art Deco / Modernist rug c. 1935

  WALTER NICHOLS China

  Art Deco / Modernist rug c. 1935

  106” x 137”

  Walter Abner Burns Nichols was one of the most colorful of the American adventurer/entrepreneurs in 1920s China. The Nichols name has come to be used almost synonymously with the ‘Chinese deco’ rugs manufactured in Tientsin, China in the 1920s and 1930s. Nichols did not originate the Chinese deco style, but he did a great deal to popularize it and to maintain its high standards of manufacture.

  Nichols began in his youth as a first-class wool grader who went to Tientsin around 1920 to work for the Elbrook family of wool merchants. Nichols started his own business a couple of years later. In a brochure he produced in the late ’20s, with the assistance of Pande-Cameron, he announced: “In 1924 W.A.B. Nichols of Tientsin, North China, introduced the Super Chinese Rug which has become world famous. It is known in every market as the most durable and beautiful product of the modern Chinese weavers art and adorns the homes of people all over the earth.”

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  Julius Dressler / Art Pottery Black and White Footed bowl c. 1910

  JULIUS DRESSLER Biela, Czech Republic

  JULIUS DRESSLER BIELA (1888-1945) Czech Republic

  Bowl 1910

  Black and white glazed earthenware with three ball feet

  Marks: JDB, 7764 (underglaze)

  H: 4 7/8” x D base: 10 7/8”

  Price: $3,750

  Julius Dressler was a noted Bohemian ceramics manufacturing company that operated from the late 19th century until the end of World War II. Founded by Julius Dressler in the 1880s in Biela, Bohemia, the company produced high-quality decorative faience, Maiolica and porcelain ware. Dressler gained international renown for the ceramics it produced in the early 1900s in the Art Nouveau style, also known as “Jugendstil” or “Secessionist” ware.

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  Raymond Templier, Paris (1891-1968) Extraordinary and important “Modernist” brooch in in a strong overlapping geometric design in platinum and set with dramatic European-cut diamonds (approx. 13 carats TW), signed: Raymond Templier, French Dog’s head assay mark for platinum, illustrated in the monograph on Raymond Templier (see image below), original signed with gold embossing on the interior of the brown suede presentation box, c. 1935

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  French Art Deco “Heptagon” clip / brooch set with a large fancy cut madeira citrine and 8 baguette madeira citrines all set in 18K gold, signed, c. 1935

  French Art Deco “Heptagon” clip / brooch set with a large fancy cut madeira citrine and 8 baguette madeira citrines all set in 18K gold, signed GA in a diamond French touch mark, French Eagle’s head mark for 18k gold, c. 1935