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  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

   

   

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  Rococo Revival 19th Century Wine Ewer c.1895

  Rococo Revival, 19th Century

  Wine Ewer c.1895

  Silver-plate highly stylized classical ewer with various etched and applied floral details and an elegantly modeled double arch handle form

  Marks: Heraldic Coat-of-Arms

  H: 11″ x W: 8″ x D: 5″

  This is a Rococo Revival inspired wine ewer that shows the design transition of the last quarter of the 19th Century and leading up to the curvaceous designs of the Art Nouveau Era. The classical form of this ewer has an ancient precedent as well.