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Robert Bloch / French Art Deco “Ribbon” bowl c. 1939 (Exhibited: Exposition de New York 1939)
ROBERT BLOCH France
BOURDOIS & BLOCH Paris, France
“Ribbon” bowl c. 1939
Porcelain with gilt and matte black polychrome decoration
Marks: crossed swords (company logo) MADE IN FRANCE
Paper label: Exposition de New York 1939 Robert Bloch Porcelaine de Paris
H: 2 3/4” x D: 9 3/4”
Robert Bloch / French Art Deco “Ribbon” bowl c. 1939 (Exhibited: Exposition de New York 1939)
EDMOND LACHENAL (1855-1930) Paris, France
Green glazed pitcher / vase form c. 1900
Marks: E LACHENAL (impressed and glazed in a rectangle on base)
For information on Edmond Lachenal see:”Edmond Lachenal”, Fritz Minkus, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk, IV (1901) pp.390-98; La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pelichet and Michèle Duperrex (Lausanne: Les Éditions du Grand-Pont, Switzerland, 1976) pp. 66,71,74,78,83,112,115; “l’Atelier Lachenal à la galerie Georges Petit “ in Les Echoes d’Art” (1933), p. Vll; Art Nouveau: Belgium & France, exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976), p. 48; Le Japonisme (Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1988) cat no. 377, p. 321; Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Siegfried Wichmann (Parklane: New York, 1980) pp. 339, 349; cat. no. 920.
H: 9″ x W: 6 3/4″
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