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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
Michael Powolny Rare Loetz Witwe Vienna Secession Tall Bud Vase c.1914
Cristalleries du val Saint-Lambert (1826-) Belgium
Jemepper-Sur-Meuse
Gevaert Romain/Ledru Leon
“Oignon de Jemeppe” art glass vase c. 1900
Hand blown coffee colored art glass vase with pulled feathering decoration in a burgundy-brown coloration with an elongated neck pulled from a bulbous body.
Marks: VSL (the mark is a variant colored feather pulled detail in the glass on the bottom of the vase)
H: 15 3/8″ x D: 5 3/4″
Price: $12,500
Val Saint Lambert is a Belgian crystal glassware manufacturer, founded in 1826. Val St Lambert is the official glassware supplier to H.M. King Albert II of Belgium.
Val Saint Lambert was founded in the Val-Saint-Lambert Abbey by a chemist, M. Kemlin, who had previously worked for the Vonêche crystal works in the Ardennes. Val Saint Lambert is renowned for its Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces.
African Bronze “Tree of Life” Sculpture 20th Century
Sand cast bronze with a brown black patina with golden highlights in an open work design depicting 18 figures perched on a tree form with various intricate pattern details.
***As a Primitive / Tribal sculpture this piece visually relates to some of the sculpture and painting of the renowned French artist Jean Dubuffet.
H: 18 1/2″ x D: 4″ x W: 8″