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  Velten Vordamm Keramik / Bauhaus Ceramics Black and White stripe Vase c. 1920

  STEINGUTFABRIKEN VELTEN-VORDAMM Werk Velten, Germany

  Vase c. 1920

  Handpainted and glazed earthenware

  Marks: VELTEN-VORDAMM company logo, 42

  Similar work illustrated: Keramik und Bauhaus, Klaus Weber et al., exhib. cat. (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, 1989), p. 229, illus. 289.

  H: 7″

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  Edward Spencer/Artificers’ Guild (attr.) British Arts & Crafts wrought iron candlesticks c. 1910

  Edward Spencer attr. (1872-1938) UK
  Artificer’s Guild  (1901-42)   UK

  Pair of candlesticks circa 1910.

  Handwrought iron with a squared central support terminating in a attenuated vine like wrap.

  H: 10 1/2″ x Dia: 5 1/2″

  The Artificers’ Guild Ltd was founded in 1901 by the metalwork and enameler Nelson Dawson (1859-1942). It was one of the few guilds inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement to enjoy real commercial success, and remained in operation until 1938. It was bought out in 1903 by the Birmingham entrepreneur Montague Fordham and established on a more commercial footing, producing domestic metalwork, church plate and furnishings, presentation plate and jewelry.

  Fordham promoted Edward Spencer (1873-1938), previously Dawson’s principal designer, to be Director of the Guild’s workshop in Hammersmith. The Guild also had a showroom originally located just off Regent Street. Spencer died in 1938, shortly after the firm was wound up. During its existence, the Guild operated as a substantial business, employing over 40 staff at its peak, including a large number of skilled craftsmen, many of whom would have been trained in the Guild’s workshop. Although unacknowledged for much of the 20th century, the Guild is now recognized as an important producer of high quality metalwork and jewelry during this period.

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  Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstätte Vienna Secession Centerpiece Bowl c. 1906

  Michael Powolny (1871-1954) Austria.
  Bertold Löffler (1874-1960) Austria.
  Vereinigte Wiener Und Gmundner Keramik.

  Pedestal centerpiece bowl, circa 1906.

  Hand-painted faience with a black and white diamond pattern on three pedestal legs on a black base with an edge of repeat white triangles and all supporting a black bowl with a white interior.

  Marked: Conjoined WK (in a square), KG (with flower cipher in square), 43 (incised under glaze) / 3,1P (painted).

  Another example of this same model can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

  Illustrated: Wiener Werkstätte Period Photo Archiv, MAK Museum, Vienna, p. 42.Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design, Inc., exhib. cat. (New York: 1996) p. 45; Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte, J. Kallir (New York: Galerie St. Etienne, 1986), p. 80; Wiener Keramik, Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, Waltraud Neuwirth (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974), p. 349.

  H: 8 1/2″ x Dia: 9 7/8″

  Price: $10,500

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  Gisela Falke von Lilienstein / Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik Vienna Secession covered box c. 1902

  GISELA VON FALKE  (b. 1874) Austria
  SCHOOL OF KOLO MOSER Austria
  BERNDORFER METALLWARENFABRIK Berndorf, Austria
  E. BAKALOWITS & SÖHNE Vienna, Austria  [retailer]

  Covered box   c. 1902

  Silver plate mounts and cover, blown “meteor” glass.

  Marks:  BEPWF 1481, maker’s touch marks

  For more information on Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik see: Blühender Jugendstil – Österreich (Art Nouveau in Blossom – Austria), Firmen und Marken (Companies and Marks), Waltraud Neuwirth, II (Vienna: Selbstverlag Neuwirth, 1991), p. 221; Metallkunst, Kunst vom Jugendstil zur Moderne (1889-1939), Karl H. Bröhan (Berlin: Bröhan Museum, 1990) pp. 20-44.

  H: 7″ x W: 8″

  Price: $9,000