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  Scandinavian Modern / Art Deco Finnish Silver Presentation Bowl 1925

  SUOMEN KULTASEPPÄ OY  Turku, Finland
  (FINNISH GOLDSMITH COMPANY, LTD.)

  Silver bowl   1925

  Hand wrought and repoussé silver with an overall scrolling leaf, blossom and vine motif, applied stylized open work silver handles

  Marks: “TILL AIS och NILS WENER 19 [28-30/ IV] 26  ADI  och ALLAN RÖNEHOLM,” maker’s mark (hammer with wings), government control mark (crown), 813 H (silver standard)   U5  AT (date mark), city mark for Turku

  H: 7 1/4″ x W: 13 1/2”

  This Art Deco Finnish silver centerpiece was presented as a gift from Adi and Allan Röneholm to Ais and Nils Wener in 1926. By repute this piece was shown the year prior at the Paris 1925 exhibition.

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  Mellerio Paris Rare French Art Deco “Gyroscope” sterling cigarette box c.1930

  MELLERIO PARIS  Italy/ France

  Gyroscope cigarette box  c.1930

  French silver (950 silver standard) in a structural form of a gyroscope with a lever for an interior lifting mechanism, gilding

  Marks: Mellerio Paris, 3776 D, head of Minerva French guarantee mark for 950/1000

  H: 5 1/4″ x Dia: 4 1/4″

  The renowned Mellerio family and their jewelry can be traced back to Lombardy, Italy as early as the 16th century.  Some family members moved to Paris and became royal jewelers for Louis XIII.  The revolutions of 1789 and 1848 interrupted their business and they moved to Madrid where they became the jewelers favored by Queen Isabel II.  Later in the 19th century they returned to Paris where once again they prospered and participated in several international expositions including  London (1862), Paris (1867, 1878 and 1900), and Vienna (1873).  In the 20th century they exhibited at the renowned Paris 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and then in New York at the 1939 World’s Fair.

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  Münchner Werkstätten / Art Deco Large Glazed Pottery Vase c. 1928

  MÜNCHNER WERKSTÄTTEN  Germany

  Vase c. 1928

  Blue and white modeled glazed earthenware with orange red outlines

  Marks:   “M” over “W” mark, Germany

  Provenance: Mr. Ernest L. King (Watkins) “Rockledge” Commission, Winona, MN c.1930’s Phillip Brooks Maher (interior architect), descended in the King Family to Bud (E. L. King Jr.) and Betty King, Winona, MN, Hollander Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Private Collection, New York, NY

  H: 9 ¾” x W: 8 ¼” x D: 8 ¼”

  Price: $5,450

  ROCKLEDGE, the summer home of Ernest and Grace King (the Watkins Family Company fortune was made from door-to-door sales of health potions and hygiene related products) was built and designed in its entirety from the expansive main home building with all of the furnishings to the custom silver service all the way down to the hand woven carpets and lace curtain designs, is arguably the most famous American Arts and Crafts commissioned home in America and was built and meticulously designed by George Washington Maher. It was finished in 1912, and was used by the Kings for the month of August only for a couple of decades before the interior was completely redone in the fashionable Art Deco design of the 1930’s. George Washington Maher’s son Phillip Brooks Maher, was hired for the project and went shopping for the best of the design of the period in both New York and Paris. He assembled a legendary collection of Art Deco design that comprised many important examples of both American and European Art Deco including the famous Donald Deskey square form telescope table, a Gilbert Rohde “Z” clock, a pair of Mies van der Rohe red lacquer and wicker armchairs, DIM furniture and rugs from Paris and rare Paolo Venini floor lamps and sculptural glass pieces among many other major 20th Century design works. This rare vase was indicative of the avant-garde furnishings throughout the King Home as well as the exquisite quality and attention to the detail of every single object that the Kings surrounded themselves with and became accustomed to enjoying and living with whether they were at their Daytona Beach resort, their lakeside property at Lake Tahoe or their plantation in Hawaii!

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  American Art Deco Reed & Barton Sterling candlesticks 1928

  REED & BARTON  (active 1824 – present) Taunton, MA

  Candlesticks  1928

  Sterling silver with Hoffmann-like fluted base and bobêches with undulating stem and palm leaf like terminating detail.

  Marks: eagle R (in a shield) lion, Sterling, 1000, cement reinforced, eagle (date mark for 1928).

  Model illustrated: Vanity Fair (Dec. 1928, Vol. 31), p. 120., Reed & Barton Vintage Catalog, p. 10, plate number 1000.

  For more information on Reed & Barton see: Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers, Dorothy T. Rainwater (West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1986), p. 156-160.

  These candlesticks retailed for $19 in 1928.

  H: 10″ x Dia: 4 1/2″