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  Orivit / Walter Scherf Germany Art Nouveau “Whiplash” Wall Mirror c. 1900

  WALTER SCHERF (1875-1909) Germany

  ORIVIT Germany

   

  ‘Mahogany framed mirror with gilt pewter Art Nouveau stylized flower and whiplash motif.

  H: 24 1/2″ x W: 19″ x D: 3/4″

  Price: 3/4″

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  Paul Haustein Germany Rare Jugendstil enamel and silver inkwell c.1900

  PAUL HAUSTEIN  (1880-1944)  Germany
  HERMANN BEHRND (b. 1849) SILBERWARENFABRIK (silver) Dresden, Germany
  JAKAB RAPOPORT (enamelist) Budapest, Hungary

  Inkwell  c. 1900

  Multicolored burgundy, purple, blue and green enamel with silver mounts, glass insert

  Marks: Moon, crown, 800, HB (Hermann Behrnd mark)

  Same model with variant mount illustrated: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung, n.d. (circa 1903-05), p. 23

  For related works and more information see: Art Nouveau in Munich: Masters of Jugendstil, ed. Kathryn Bloom Hiesinger (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988) pp. 67-69; Jugendstil in Dresden, Aufbruch in die Moderne, Gisela Haase et al., exh. cat. (Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Wolfratshausen: Edition Minerva, 1999).

  Dia: 7 1/4″ x H: 4 1/2″

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  Breuhaus de Groot / WMF Ikora Germany Art Deco Rare “Pokal” Covered Footed Cup 1928

  FRITZ AUGUST BREUHAUS DE GROOT  (1883-1960)  Germany
  WMF [WÜRTTEMBERGISCHE METALLWARENFABRIK]  Geislingen

  “Pokal” Covered footed cup ( model no. Br 6 )1928

  Silverplated brass, model no. Br 6

  Marks: WMF insignia (touchmark), x/o

  Illustrated: Goldschmiedekunst 49, (1928) m. Abb; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration 63, (1928/29) Abb S 353; Metallkunst: Kunst vom Jugendstil zur Moderne (1889-1939), Karl H. Bröhan, Band IV (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1990) n. 610, p. 571; WMF Ikora Metall / Metalwork, Carlo Burschel and Heinz Scheiffele (Stuttgart, Germany: ARNOLDSCHE, 2006) pp.12,19,34.

  H: 13 ¼” D base: 5 ¼” x D top: 5 ½”

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  Paul Follot for La Maison Moderne, Art Nouveau waist clasp, silver and chrysoprase, signed c. 1900

  PAUL FOLLOT Paris, France

  LA MAISON MODERNE Paris, France

  Art Nouveau waist clasp c.1900

  Gilt silver with chased whiplash design set with 19 cabochons of chrysoprase.

  Marks: P. FOLLOT, French swan mark (silver standard mark for small objects)

  Illustrated: Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe Siecle (Paris: Edition de la Moderne) p. 20, plate 5, n. 53-11

  PAUL FOLLOT (1877-1941) French

  In the Late 1890’s, Follot studied under graphic designer Eugène Grasset at the Ecole Normale d’Enseignement du Dessin in Paris and later succeeded Grasset in that post. From 1901 to 1904, he designed metalwork, jewelry and textiles for La Maison Moderne, art critic Julius Meier-Graefe’s gallery in Paris. He became director of the interior design studio Pomone of the Paris department store Le Bon Marché in 1923, introducing the Art Deco style into many middle-class home.