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  Sevard / French Art Deco Dinanderie vase with fish fins c. 1925

  SEVARD  France (active 1920’s/1930’s)

  Dinanderie vase  with fish fins c. 1925

  Hand wrought and hand hammered copper with a rich chocolate-brown
  patination and bronze fin-like handles, gilt detailing

  Marks:  Sevard (inscribed signature), “France”

  H:  7 7/8”  x  W:  8 3/4”

   

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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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  Flavio Poli / Seguso Vetri d’Arte Brown Murano Art glass vase c. 1950’s

  FLAVIO POLI (1900-1984) Italy
  SEGUSO VETRI D’ARTE Italy

  Vase c. 1950’s

  Asymmetric vase in a dark brown Murano glass cased inside with a layer of pale green and clear glass

  H: 10 1/2″ x W: 5 1/2″ x D: 2 3/4″

  Price: $4,000

  Designer, businessman, ceramic artist. Born in Chioggia, he attended the Istituto d’Arte di Venezia and began work as a designer in ceramics. in 1929 he switched to glass and for Libero Vitali’s I.V.A.M. he designed animals, splendid Novecento-style nude figures in massiccio glass, as well as bowls and urns with figures resting on the inside, on lids or as handles. He subsequently collaborated with the Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, with the furnace of Mario and Lino Nason and with the engraver Gino Francesconi. in 1934 he accepted the artistic direction of Barovier, Seguso & Ferro, later to become Seguso Vetri d’Arte, and became partner three years later. Together with the master of the principal team Archimede Seguso, Poli was the author of grandiose lighting installations, of corroded vessels, of sculptures in bulicante glass, of animals in massiccio glass shaped while hot, productions which represented a milestone in the development of Murano glass. At the height of his artistic maturity, in the years between 1950 and 1960 he designed a series of sommerso glass pieces in a Nordic style, essential forms and sharp cold colors, which were awarded prestigious prizes (Compasso d’Oro). After leaving Seguso in 1963, between 1964 and 1966 he organized the artistic glass division at the Societˆ Veneziana di Conterie e Cristallerie.

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  Fontana Arte Italian, Mid-Century Glass “Fruit” Bookends, circa 1950

  FONTANA ARTE   Milan, Italy

  “Glass fruit” bookends   c. 1950

  Glass, chromium-plated brass

  For more information see: Fontana Arte, Una storia Trasparente, Laura Falconi (Milan: Skira, 1998).

  H:  5” x W:  3 3/8” x D:  5”

  Price: $3,500