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Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstätte Vienna Secession Centerpiece Bowl c. 1906
Michael Powolny (1871-1954) Austria.
Bertold Löffler (1874-1960) Austria.
Vereinigte Wiener Und Gmundner Keramik.
Pedestal centerpiece bowl, circa 1906.
Hand-painted faience with a black and white diamond pattern on three pedestal legs on a black base with an edge of repeat white triangles and all supporting a black bowl with a white interior.
Marked: Conjoined WK (in a square), KG (with flower cipher in square), 43 (incised under glaze) / 3,1P (painted).
Another example of this same model can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
Illustrated: Wiener Werkstätte Period Photo Archiv, MAK Museum, Vienna, p. 42.Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design, Inc., exhib. cat. (New York: 1996) p. 45; Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte, J. Kallir (New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1986), p. 80; Wiener Keramik, Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, Waltraud Neuwirth (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974), p. 349.
H: 8 1/2″ x Dia: 9 7/8″
Price: $10,500
Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstätte Vienna Secession Centerpiece Bowl c. 1906
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FRANTISEK BIBUS Czechoslovakia
Architectural covered decanter with spherical stopper c. 1910
Silver mount with a rectangular handle cut out on a cut paneled crystal body, round crystal silver mounted stopper.
Marks: FB (maker’s mark) in a rectangle cartouche, Vienna assay mark for 800 silver
For more information see: Blühender Jugendstil – Österreich (Art Nouveau in Blossom – Austria), Firmen und Marken (Companies and Marks), Waltraud Neuwirth, II (Vienna: Selbstverlag Neuwirth, 1991).
H: 7″ x Dia: 3 1/2″
Price: $6,500
GIO PONTI (1891-1979) Italy
DEL CAMPO Italy
Graphic enameled bowl c. 1955
Silver foil enameling on copper with a striated silvery white body with a dark silver grey modernist graphic.
Marks: del campo, ITALY (etched marks)
For more information on Ponti and Del Campo see: Gio Ponti, ed. Ugo La Pietra (Rizzoli International Publications: New York, 1996); Gio Ponti: the complete work 1923-1978, Lisa Licitra Ponti (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990)
8” square
1″ Height
Price: $3,200
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