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  Münchner Werkstätten / Art Deco Large Glazed Pottery Vase c. 1928

  MÜNCHNER WERKSTÄTTEN  Germany

  Vase c. 1928

  Blue and white modeled glazed earthenware with orange red outlines

  Marks:   “M” over “W” mark, Germany

  Provenance: Mr. Ernest L. King (Watkins) “Rockledge” Commission, Winona, MN c.1930’s Phillip Brooks Maher (interior architect), descended in the King Family to Bud (E. L. King Jr.) and Betty King, Winona, MN, Hollander Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Private Collection, New York, NY

  H: 9 ¾” x W: 8 ¼” x D: 8 ¼”

  Price: $5,450

  ROCKLEDGE, the summer home of Ernest and Grace King (the Watkins Family Company fortune was made from door-to-door sales of health potions and hygiene related products) was built and designed in its entirety from the expansive main home building with all of the furnishings to the custom silver service all the way down to the hand woven carpets and lace curtain designs, is arguably the most famous American Arts and Crafts commissioned home in America and was built and meticulously designed by George Washington Maher. It was finished in 1912, and was used by the Kings for the month of August only for a couple of decades before the interior was completely redone in the fashionable Art Deco design of the 1930’s. George Washington Maher’s son Phillip Brooks Maher, was hired for the project and went shopping for the best of the design of the period in both New York and Paris. He assembled a legendary collection of Art Deco design that comprised many important examples of both American and European Art Deco including the famous Donald Deskey square form telescope table, a Gilbert Rohde “Z” clock, a pair of Mies van der Rohe red lacquer and wicker armchairs, DIM furniture and rugs from Paris and rare Paolo Venini floor lamps and sculptural glass pieces among many other major 20th Century design works. This rare vase was indicative of the avant-garde furnishings throughout the King Home as well as the exquisite quality and attention to the detail of every single object that the Kings surrounded themselves with and became accustomed to enjoying and living with whether they were at their Daytona Beach resort, their lakeside property at Lake Tahoe or their plantation in Hawaii!

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  Chinese Art Deco Cloisonne Box c.1930

  CHINESE ART DECO

  Covered box c. 1930

  Cloisonne enamel in a fantasy of archaic Chinese motifs in red, royal blue, black  white and sand colored abstract designs on a bronze body with a turquoise enameled underside and interior.

  H: 2 1/2″ x D: 6 1/4″ x W: 9″

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  WMF Ikora Germany Art Deco Dinanderie Vase c. 1930

  WMF  (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik)  Geislingen, Germany

  Dinanderie vase  c. 1930

  Silver-plated copper with with red patinated squares and rectangles on a black-patinated textured background

  Marks: WMF castle mark, IKORA

  Illustrated: WMF Ikora Metall / Metalwork, Carlo Burschel and Heinz Scheiffele (Stuttgart, Germany: ARNOLDSCHE, 2006), p. 142, 90/585.

  For more information see: WMF Glas Keramik Metall 1925-1950,  Jörg Schwandt, (Berlin: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museum  Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1981). Metallkunst, Band IV (Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 1981) pp. 546-579.

  H: 3″ x Dia: 4″

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  American Art Deco Reed & Barton Sterling candlesticks 1928

  REED & BARTON  (active 1824 – present) Taunton, MA

  Candlesticks  1928

  Sterling silver with Hoffmann-like fluted base and bobêches with undulating stem and palm leaf like terminating detail.

  Marks: eagle R (in a shield) lion, Sterling, 1000, cement reinforced, eagle (date mark for 1928).

  Model illustrated: Vanity Fair (Dec. 1928, Vol. 31), p. 120., Reed & Barton Vintage Catalog, p. 10, plate number 1000.

  For more information on Reed & Barton see: Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, Dorothy T. Rainwater (West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1986), p. 156-160.

  These candlesticks retailed for $19 in 1928.

  H: 10″ x Dia: 4 1/2″