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  Franz Boeres / Theodor Fahrner, Jugendstil / Modernist waist clasp, silver and enamel, signed, Exhibited 1904 St. Louis Exhibition

  Clasp illustrated: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Band XIV, April 1904-September 1904, p. 506 (see image attached)

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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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  Mazzega Murano / Italian Art Glass White opalescent tube top vase c. 1975

  AV MAZZEGA MURANO (Italy)

  Vase  c. 1975

  White opalescent blue blown glass with a bottom tube support and a flared
  test tube style top

  For related information see:  Italian Glass Murano Milan 1930-1970, Helmut  Ricke and Eva Schmitt (Munich: Prestel, 1997) illus. 66, 67;  I Vetri di Fulvio Bianconi, Rossana Bossaglia (Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1993) illus. 17, 21; Murano Glas 1945-1970, Marc Heiremans (Antwerpen: Galerij Novecento, 1989) illus. 181;  I Vetri Venini, Franco Deboni (Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1989) illus. 105.

  H: 14”

  Price: $3,200