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  Louis C. Tiffany / Tiffany Studios Rare Kettle-on-Stand c. 1902

  LOUIS C. TIFFANY (1848-1933) USA
  TIFFANY STUDIOS   New York

  Kettle-on-Stand   c.1902

  Silver on copper with carved teak wood handles and finial in an organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand with burner

  Marks: Tiffany Studios, New York (on all three pieces)

  Illustrated:  The Art of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Donald L. Stover (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1981), p. 88, illus. 189 (description on p. 96); Tiffany at Auction, Alastair Duncan (New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, 1981) p. 50, pl. 137.

  A rare example of a subtle organic-form and hexagonal shaped kettle-on-stand emulating pooling water in a Japanese influenced design by Louis Comfort Tiffany and made by Tiffany Studios

  H: 10 1/2″ x D: 8″ x W: 9″

   

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  Mellerio Paris Rare French Art Deco “Gyroscope” sterling cigarette box c.1930

  MELLERIO PARIS  Italy/ France

  Gyroscope cigarette box  c.1930

  French silver (950 silver standard) in a structural form of a gyroscope with a lever for an interior lifting mechanism, gilding

  Marks: Mellerio Paris, 3776 D, head of Minerva French guarantee mark for 950/1000

  H: 5 1/4″ x Dia: 4 1/4″

  The renowned Mellerio family and their jewelry can be traced back to Lombardy, Italy as early as the 16th century.  Some family members moved to Paris and became royal jewelers for Louis XIII.  The revolutions of 1789 and 1848 interrupted their business and they moved to Madrid where they became the jewelers favored by Queen Isabel II.  Later in the 19th century they returned to Paris where once again they prospered and participated in several international expositions including  London (1862), Paris (1867, 1878 and 1900), and Vienna (1873).  In the 20th century they exhibited at the renowned Paris 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and then in New York at the 1939 World’s Fair.

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  Christian Thomsen / RC Denmark Rare “Frog and Dragonfly” Art Nouveau vase 1901

  CHRISTIAN THOMSEN (1860-1921) Denmark
  ROYAL COPENHAGEN

  “Frog and Dragonfly” vase 1901

  Glazed porcelain with a frog in 3-D sculptural relief looking at a dragonfly seated on a calla lily leaf looking up at the blossom.

  Form number 280

  Marks: ROYAL COPENHAGEN, CROWN, 465/250, 3 wavy lines (Royal Copenhagen) insignia, inscribed A. 250

  For more information see: Musterbuch KPF, um 1930, Illustration number 204; Porzellan, Kunst und Design 1889 bis 1939, vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1993) p. 467, ill. 435; Sammlung Bröhan: Kunsthandwerk 2, Metall, Porzellan (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1977), pp. 222-285.

  H: 9″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Christian Thomsen was employed at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Royal Copenhagen) in 1898, and was employed there until his death in 1921. Thomsen is said to have had a huge impact on Royal Copenhagen’s success throughout the 20th century. A large part of the recognition by the Royal Porcelain Factory has enjoyed over the years, they can thank Christian Thomsen for. He produced more than 100 different figurines, especially he had a fondness for agricultural characters, children figurines, figurines inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, fauns and trolls, and not least charming animals and bird figures.

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  Michael Powolny Rare Loetz Witwe Vienna Secession Tall Bud Vase c.1914

  PROF. MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria

  JOH. LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS  Klostermϋhle, Bohemia

  Tall bud vase   c. 1914

  “Opal mit streifen” opaline blown glass with applied blue glass canes and blue knob above opaline base

  Exhibited: 1914 Werkbundausstellung, Cologne (Lötz period photograph, vase for the 1914 Cologne Werkbund Exhibition) Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267; Wiener Werkstätte Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Christian Brandstätter (New York:Verlag Harry Abrams, 2003) p. 247.

  Form illustrated: Lötz:  Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940:  Werkmonographie, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil (Munich: Prestal-Verlag, 1989), p. 267
  Same ”opal mit streifen” technique illustrated: Glaskunst der Moderne: von Josef Hoffmann bis Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Torsten Bröhan (Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1992), cat. no. 19, pp. 74-77.

  H: 11″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Price: $10,500