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  Salvatore Meli Important large scale Italian Sculpture / Ewer 1952

  SALVATORE MELI (b. 1929)  Italy

  Important Sculpture / Ewer   1952

  Glazed terra cotta, brown and dark green with white scraffito decoration, original stepped and angular wood base.

  Signed: Meli 1952 Roma

  For more info on Meli see: Design 1935-1965, What Modern was, ed. Martin Eidelberg (New York: Harry Abrams, 1991) p. 237.

  Salvatore Meli belongs to that initial group of artists, including Guido Gambone and Lucio Fontana among others, who elevated Italian ceramics to a fine art during the post-war period.  Meli conceived this vessel, first on paper, then by laboriously constructing the body in clay, coil by coil, to achieve the richly textured and dynamic form; the incised and painted decoration is in concert with the organic shape.  The massive scale of this work defies function as a ewer but was created as a sculptural object.  The original wooden base recalls Italian futurist sculpture forms of the early twentieth century.

  H (with base):  23 1/2” x W:  13” x D:  9.5”
  H (without base):  19 1/8”

  Price: $27,500

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  Christopher Dresser / Minton Aesthetic Movement Cloisonné Vase 1867

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
  MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, England

  “Cloisonné” vase 1867

  Glazed porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding

  Marks: MINTON, date cipher for 1867

  Illustration: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhibition catalogue, Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 78.

  H: 9 7/8”

   

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  Mitsukoshi Japan / Early Showa Period Silver Vase c. 1925-30

  MITSUKOSHI   Japan
  EARLY SHOWA PERIOD (1926-1989)  Japan

  Vase  c. 1925-30

  Silver with repoussé blossoms and leaves on a bulbous form with collar

  Marks: Mitsukoshi (Japanese characters)

  H: 6” x D: 9 1/2”

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  Georges Serré / Art Deco Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware vase c. 1925

  GEORGES SERRÉ (1889-1956) France

  Vase c. 1925

  Warm ivory /sand colored glazed stoneware with hand incised stylized leaf and floral motif with a top collar and lower half in a softened geometric repeat pattern all in a light brown tonality.

  Marks: G Serre (hand incised signature)

  For more information see: La Céramique Art Déco, Edgar Pelichet (Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1988), p. 47.

  For more information on Serré see: Georges Serré, exhib. cat. (Paris: Galerie Landrot, 1992).

  H: 11″ x Dia: 10″