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  Max Läuger Germany Unique Jugendstil footed bowl inlaid with gold mosaic 1906

  PROF. MAX LÄUGER  (1864-1952)  Karlsruhe, Germany

  Unique Jugendstil ceramic footed bowl inlaid with gold mosaic 1906

  Light and dark green glazed earthenware inlaid with mosaic gold glass squares on four cylindrical feet.

  Marks: ML, K (monogram)338 (incised), 4., MUSTER B.., GESCHTZ

  For other mosaic inlaid works by Max Läuger see: Max Laeuger (1864-1952): sein graphisches, kunsthandwerkliches und keramisches Oeuvre, Elisabeth Kessler-Slotta (Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1985) pp. 178/179; Europäisches Kunstgewerbe 1927, Stadtisches Kunstgewerbe-Museum zu Leipzig, (Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1928) p. 86; Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration vol. XII “Professor Max Laeuger  Karlsruhe”, pp. 221-237; Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940 (The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis), Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998), p. 86.

  H: 5 3/4″ x Dia: 7 1/4″

  Max Laeuger (or Läuger) was born in Lörrach on September 30, 1864. Laeuger was a self taught ceramicist, studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic a hundred miles to the north-west of Lörrach (now Karlsruhe University) and eventually became a professor at the university.  In 1895 after travelling throughout Europe visiting the major cultural centers to study art he was appointed director of the art pottery department of Tonwerke Kanderne close to his home town. He stayed there until 1913 and later took up a similar position at Majolika-Manufaktur in Karlsruhe.

  From 1921 he had his own workshop on the premises formerly owned by the company and produced designs there. The work produced fell into three categories, slip decorated wares designed by Laeuger but produced entirely by the factory, pieces made at the factory but decorated and glazed by Laeuger and one-off pieces by the professor made from beginning to end in his own workshop. All were marketed by Majolika-Manufaktur. Laeuger’s one-off pieces had the brushed initials ‘ML’ and the other works were marked ‘LAEUGER’ or ‘PROF. MAX LAEUGER’

  Through the thirties and into the Second World War he worked on his own, but after his workshop was destroyed in 1944 he returned to Lörrach where he died on December 12, 1952. Laeuger was a major figure in German ceramics. His designs and his glazes had ‘organic’ characteristics that are his signature design and his work is much sought-after by collectors. Examples of Laeuger pieces are on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.

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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. / James Powell & Sons Serving dish c.1902-1905

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
  LIBERTY & CO. London
  JAMES POWELL & SONS . WHITEFRIARS, UK

  Serving dish c. 1902-1905

  Pewter with floral entrelac in bas-relief and Powell green glass insert

  Marks: 0163 (Tudric number), English Pewter, CONNELL 83 Cheapside London (retailer)

  Illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) p 97.

  Related models illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. Stephen A. Martin (London: Artmedia Press, 2001) p 208.

  H: 2” x Handle to handle W: 7 ¼”
  Spoon length: 6 3/8”

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  Christian Dell / Bauhaus “Tee-Ei” Tea infusers (Rare set of eight) 1924

  CHRISTIAN DELL (1893-1974)  Germany
  BAUHAUS  (1919-1933) Germany

  “Tee-Ei”  (tea ball) 1924 (rare set of 8)

  Silvered brass.

  ***These are all in fine original, untouched condition.

  Illustrated: Christian Dell: Silberschmied und Leuchtengestalter im 20. Jahrhundert, Beate Alice Hofmann, Museum Hanau (Hanau: Heller Druck,1996) illus. 15, p.56; Modernist Design 1880-1940, Alastair Duncan, The Norwest Collection (Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors’ Club, 1998), p. 173; Decorative Arts 1850-1950, Judy Rudoe, (London: British Museum Press, 1991) cover,  p. 276; Die Metall Werkstatt am Bauhaus, (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, 1992) pp. 140-141 Silver of a New Era,  (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1992)  p. 157;  cat. no. 140.

  Length: 5 1/4″

  Price: $9,600

  Christian Dell, metal artist and industrial designer, played a formative role in shaping the Bauhaus style. Dell was the master of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus, 1922-25, in Weimar, working closely with László Moholy-Nagy.

  Born the son of a locksmith in Offenbach in 1893, he had a great impact as a teacher on the curriculum of the Weimar metal workshop. He had done an apprenticeship as a silversmith in Hanau before and had also attended the drawing academy, followed by a stay at the Weimar School of Applied Art. Henry van de Velde, director of this institution, coined Christian Dell’s early works with his organic-flowing use of forms, a feature that can also be observed on Dell’s later works.

  Metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar:
  From 1922, the former goldsmith, silversmith and coppersmith workshops of the Weimar phase became a laboratory for design where metal vessels and lamps were made. This is also where the designs for industry, as well as metal furniture, were ultimately created. In 1922, the silversmith Christian Dell took over as master of works. Following Itten’s departure in 1923, the workshop developed in a new direction with the Hungarian Constructivist László Moholy-Nagy. Instead of individual pieces, prototypes were now made for mass production. In order to manufacture the individual models, a production line was established.

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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Bollellin dish c. 1903

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933)   UK

  LIBERTY & CO. London

  Bollellin dish   c. 1903

  Pewter with a Celtic entrelac

  Marks on bottom: ENGLISH PEWTER, 044, Made in England

  Illustrated: Liberty’s 1875-1975, An Exhibition to mark the Firm’s Centenary, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975, p. 75, illus. D185.

  Drawing illustrated: Archibald Knox, ed. Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) p. 137.

  H: 1 1/2” x D: 10 1/4”