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  Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstaette Vienna Secession “Schneckenreiter” c. 1910

  MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria
  BERTOLD LÖFFLER (1874-1960)  Austria
  VEREINIGTE WIENER UND GMUNDNER KERAMIK  Vienna

  Schneckenreiter  c. 1910

  Glazed white earthenware hand-painted with black enamel

  Marks: conjoined WK (in a square), KG with flower (in a square), 81 (impressed)

  ***Extremely rare Powolny model in black and white.

  Model illustrated: Michael Powolny:  Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990), p. 50, illus. 20, cat. no. WV43;  Vienna 1900, Vienna, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde, Peter Vergo (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983), p. 63, plate 19; “Austrian Architecture and Decoration,” The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art 1911 (London: The Studio, 1911), p. 233.

  This model may also be found in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Inventory number 604, 1966).

  H: 7″ x W: 7 3/4″ x D: 4″

  Price: $10,500

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  Henri Lapparra Art Deco “Mikado” covered sugar bowl c. 1930

  Silver lidded bowl with ebony finial and rectangular ebony handles, decorated with enamel in fan shapped tiers of three shades of blue and black

  Marks: French Touchmarks (Head of Minerva) 2x, Lapparra diamond shape silver touch mark, Red Lacquer Cranbrook Museum Accession No. 1930.77

  Exhibited: Third International Exposition of Contemporary Industrial Arts, 1930-1931 The American Federation of Arts 1930-1931, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, October 15 – November 10, 1930, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, December 1 – December 28, 1930, The Art Institute of Chicago, January 19 – February 15, 1931, The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, March 11 – April 5, 1931; Art Deco, 1971 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

  Model illustrated: Art Deco, A Guide for Collectors, Katherine Morrison McClinton (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1972) p. 162; Art Deco, Judith Applegate (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) illustr. 392; The Cranbrook Collections, Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1972, illustr. 31, pp. 7 & 9, Third International Exposition of Contemporary Industrial Arts, 1930 (New York: Finch College Museum of Art) No. 392; Art Deco, 1971 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts) No. 164; International Exhibition of Metalwork and Cotton Textiles exhibition catalogue (The American Federation of Arts, 1930) No. 169

  H: 4” x W: 4 ½” x D: 4”

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  Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstätte / Loetz globe Vienna Secession sonce c.1915

  JOSEF HOFFMANN  (1870 – 1956)  Austria
  JOH. LÖTZ WITWE   Klostermühle, Bohemia
  WIENER WERKSTÄTTE  (1903-1931) Vienna

  Wall sconce with Loetz globe  c. 1915

  Polished brass, wall arm in the form of volute with pearl ribbon, handblown Lötz glass, cobalt Phänomen Gre

  Marks: JH, WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

  For more information see: Wiener Werkstätte: 1903-1932  Gabriele  Fahr-Becker (Cologne: Taschen, 1994); Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Werner J. Schweiger  (New York,1984);  Josef Hoffmann Designs, ed. Peter Noever, MAK and Prestel-Verlag: Munich, 1992); Wiener Werkstätte by Gabriele Fahr-Becker.

  Extension from the wall forward: 11 ½”
  H top of arch to bottom of globe: 11 ¼”
  Diameter of globe: 6 1/2”

  Price: $19,000

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  Gio Ponti / Del Campo enamel bowl c. 1955

  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