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  Clement Massier / French Art Nouveau “Bamboo and Flying Crane” Vase circa 1900

  CLÉMENT MASSIER  (1845-1917) France
  MASSIER ART POTTERY  Golfe Juan, France

  “Bamboo and flying crane” vase   c. 1900

  Earthenware tapering form with applied handles, hand painted with bamboo and flying cranes with gilt motives and details

  Marks: Clement Massier  Golfe  Juan (block impressed letters)

  For more information and other works by the Massier family see: Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Montreal, Quebec: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995) p. 176, cat. 269; Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Floral and Functional Forms, Siegfried Wichmann (New York/Boston: Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., 1984) p. 45; Art Nouveau  Belgium France. Exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976); La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pélichet, Michèle Duperrex (Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976) p. 89

  H:  14 1/8” x D: 9 5/8”

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  Tsuchida Yasuhiko, Art Glass “Mosaic” Vase, 1999

  Tsuchida Yasuhiko  (b. 1969) Osaka, Japan/ Italy

  Art glass mosaic technique vase   1999

  Overall matte finish art glass vase with an elaborate mosaic technique inset with red rectangular patchwork sections and blue murrina jewels all on a chocolate brown body with a black glass foot

  Marks: Tsuchida Yasuhiko 99, 77

  For more information see: Tsuchida Yasuhiko, exh. cat., Franco Schiavon (Murano, Italy: Palazzo del Vetro, 2000).

  Provenance: Pauly & Co. Venice

  H: 4 3/4″ x Dia: 5 1/8″

  Price: $5,450

  Yasuhiko Tsuchida was born in Osaka, Japan in 1969. In 1988, soon after graduating TSUJI Culinary Institute, he left Japan to explore food and art in Paris. Since 1992, he has lived in Venice, Italy. Tsuchida has been making glass work in Murano Island since 1995, and next year assumed the office of art director at Schiavone Glass Co. Ltd. In 1996 he presented a glass sculpture entitled “Bamboo Collection” with Japanese motif of bamboo. The work was highly acclaimed, which gave him a chance to start to hold solo exhibitions around the world. In 2000, Tsuchida became a member of the board of directors at Venetian Glass Institute, and a chief director there in 2003. In 2004, he won Honorary Technique Prize in Düsseldorf, Germany, and in 2008, received Award of Contribution to Cultural Promotion from Grosseto city, Toscana. In the same year, he represented Japan at International Open Exhibition of Sculpture, and won the Grand-Prix. In 2010, Tsuchida was invited to the Issei Miyake “IM10” Project Competition, and held a solo exhibition at Lorusso Gallery, Andria, Italy. Tsuchida continues to exhibit in many solo shows around the world.

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  WMF Ikora Germany Art Deco Dinanderie Vase c. 1930

  WMF  (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik)  Geislingen, Germany

  Dinanderie vase  c. 1930

  Silver-plated copper with with red patinated squares and rectangles on a black-patinated textured background

  Marks: WMF castle mark, IKORA

  Illustrated: WMF Ikora Metall / Metalwork, Carlo Burschel and Heinz Scheiffele (Stuttgart, Germany: ARNOLDSCHE, 2006), p. 142, 90/585.

  For more information see: WMF Glas Keramik Metall 1925-1950,  Jörg Schwandt, (Berlin: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museum  Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1981). Metallkunst, Band IV (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1981) pp. 546-579.

  H: 3″ x Dia: 4″

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  Désiré Christian / Meisenthal Art Nouveau Art Glass Gourd Vase c. 1885-90

  DÉSIRÉ CHRISTIAN (1846-1907) France
  MEISENTHAL (LOTHRINGEN) France/Germany

  Gourd vessel in the Japanese taste   c. 1885-90

  Wheel-carved and martelé French cameo glass with metallic inclusions and applied glass (blossoms, tendrils and butterflies)

  Signed on the bottom: Desire Christian, Meisenthal Loth

  For information on Désiré Christian see: The Glass of Désiré Christian, Ghost for Gallé, Jules S. Traub (Chicago: The Art Glass Exchange, 1978).

  H: 8 1/2″ x Dia: 4″