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  Mitzi Otten-Friedmann / Wiener Werkstaette reverse painted glass and silver brooch, signed c. 1915

  MITZI OTTEN-FRIEDMANN (1884-1955) Austria

  WIENER WERKSTÄTTE (1903-1932)

  Brooch   c. 1915

  Reverse-painted glass depicting a couple set in a silver frame / back

  Marks: M. OTTEN-FRIEDMANN on the front (right), the reverse stamped: WW, Vienna assay mark for 900 silver

  D: 2 3/8”

  Rosalia Marie Friedmann-Otten (“Mitzi”) * November 28, 1884 Vienna, † May 5, 1955 New York, NY

  Student at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna (with Oskar Strnad), Friedmann-Otten participated in numerous exhibitions (including art shows in 1908, 1920; Neukunstgruppe 1909; German Women’s Art in 1925; Werkbundausstellung 1930). Member of the Austrian Werkbund, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Neukunstgruppe. One of the most versatile artists (commercial art, metalwork, jewelry, fashion, starting from 1920 mainly enamel works, including large-scale email pictures), Friedmann-Otten had to flee in 1938 to the United States.

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  Sweetser Co. American Arts & Crafts Sterling, Copper and Jade Cigar Box c. 1910

  The Sweetser Co. New York, New York
  (active 1900-1915)

  Covered cigar box c. 1910

  Elaborately etched sterling silver cover with a spherical jade finial and a copper box bottom, wood lined

  Marks: S & E in three separate boxes (2x), STERLING, 2158

  H: 4 3/4″ x D: 6 1/8″ x W: 7 5/8″

  The Sweetser Co. New York, NY was active 1900-1915 and were manufacturers of fancy gold and sterling wares

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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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  Marcel Kammerer / Thonet / Vienna Secession Pedestal c. 1905

  Marcel Kammerer (1878-1959) Austria
  Gebrüder Thonet Vienna

  Pedestal with four-ball shelf, circa 1905.

  Ebonized beech.

  Marks: Thonet (original paper label).

  For more information on Thonet see: Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture, Christopher Wilk introd. (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980) (reprint of the original 1904 catalogue); Casa Thonet, Storia dei mobili in legno curvato, Giovanna Massobrio, Paolo Portoghesi(Roma: Editori Laterza, 1980); Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture from the Collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, Ghenete Zelleke, Eva B. Ottilinger and Nina Stritzler (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993).

  H: 46 3/4”
  D top: 12”
  D base: 13 1/2”
  Shelf: 9 3/4″ x 10”

  Price: $14,000