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  Scandinavian Art Nouveau “Wisteria” bronze photo frame c.1910

  SCANDINAVIAN ART NOUVEAU

  “Wisteria” bronze photo frame  c.1910

  Elaborately detailed, acid etched and multi-patinated bronze table top photo frame with gilt details of a cascade of wisteria blossoms, leaves and vines.

  Overall Frame: H: 12” x W: 7 ½”
  Oval photo window opening H: 5 ½” x W: 4”

  Price: $3,650

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  Reinhold Klaus / Carl Geyling Atelier Vienna “Cubist Man with top hat and flowers” stained glass window c. 1930

  REINHOLD KLAUS (1881-1963) Vienna, Austria

  CARL GEYLING ATELIER (founded 1841) Vienna, Austria

  Man with tophat and flowers   c. 1930

  Window of stained and hand-painted leaded glass

  Provenance: Estate of Carl Geyling (1814-1880), Vienna

  H: 17 3/4″ x W: 14 1/2″

  Reinhold Klaus studied from 1898-1902 with Alfred Roller at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. In 1914 Klaus married into the Carl Geyling family and became extensively involved with with stained glass painting. As early as 1918 Klaus worked on a stained glass window for the Siegestempel am Bisamberg in Vienna. In 1934 he became a professor of stained glass painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule, as well as creative director of the C. Geylings Erben glass painting company. Reinhold Klaus, a member of the Künstlerhaus since 1924 received many prizes and honors. He worked on commissions for the St. Veits cathedral in Prague, the St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna and many others.

   

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  Michael Powolny / Wiener Werkstaette Vienna Secession “Schneckenreiter” c. 1910

  MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria
  BERTOLD LÖFFLER (1874-1960)  Austria
  VEREINIGTE WIENER UND GMUNDNER KERAMIK  Vienna

  Schneckenreiter  c. 1910

  Glazed white earthenware hand-painted with black enamel

  Marks: conjoined WK (in a square), KG with flower (in a square), 81 (impressed)

  ***Extremely rare Powolny model in black and white.

  Model illustrated: Michael Powolny:  Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990), p. 50, illus. 20, cat. no. WV43;  Vienna 1900, Vienna, Scotland and the European Avant-Garde, Peter Vergo (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983), p. 63, plate 19; “Austrian Architecture and Decoration,” The Studio Year Book of Decorative Art 1911 (London: The Studio, 1911), p. 233.

  This model may also be found in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Inventory number 604, 1966).

  H: 7″ x W: 7 3/4″ x D: 4″

  Price: $10,500

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  Tlingit Tribe / Northwest Coast Chevron / diamond storage basket, late 19th Century, early 20th Century

  TLINGIT TRIBE / NORTHWEST COAST

  Chevron/diamond storage basket, late 19th Century, early 20th Century

  Handwoven split conifer root (buff), bear grass (white), woodwardia fern stem dyed with alder bark (rust), maidenhair fern stem (black), willow shoots

  For more information see: The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry, Brian Bibby (Sacramento/Berkeley: Crocker Art Museum, Heyday Books, 1996), p. 90.

  H: 8 1/2” x D: 11”