DOCSLIB.ORG

European Furniture & Decorative Arts

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
European Furniture & Decorative Arts SKINNER European Furniture & Decorative Arts featuring Fine Silver Sale 2498 April 10, 2010 Boston European Furniture & Decorative Arts featuring Fine Silver SPECIALISTS IN CHARGE Stuart Slavid Stuart Whitehurst Sara Wishart Department Director,, Furniture Decorative Arts, Ceramics 508.970.3293 Silver 508.970.3278 508.970.3282 European Furniture & Decorative Arts Department - 508.970.3203 General Inquiries: [email protected] AUCTION 2498 Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 10 a.m. 63 Park Plaza Boston, Massachusetts PREVIEW Thursday, April 8, 2010 12 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 9, 2010 12 to 8 p.m. ABSENTEE BIDDING Tel: 617.874.4318 Fax: 617.350.5429 Online: www.skinnerinc.com GENERAL INQUIRIES 617.350.5400 View all lots online at www.skinnerinc.com COVER : 786; FRONTISPIECE: 442 Register… Preview… and Bid Live Online at www.skinnerinc.com Preview Online Absentee Bidding/Tracking Lots Skinner makes previewing online anytime from your Skinner’s website accepts absentee bids up to one home or office easy and convenient. View all lots in the hour before an auction begins. Once you’ve placed auction in order, many with multiple views. YYou can your bids, use “Track Lots” to track those items and also flip through the pages of our interactive virtual see their selling prices. YYou can also use “Track Lots” catalog or download the catalog PDF to your desktop. to track the selling price of items you’re simply curious about, whether you’ve bid on them or not. Lot Alert Bid Live Online with Skinner-Live! Let Skinner’r’s Lot Alert do your searching for you! Lot Alert continuously searches Skinner’s upcoming There’s nothing like bidding live at an auction—and now auctions for items that interest you, and automatically Skinner brings that live auction experience to our emails you when an item matches your interest profile. website with Skinner-Live! Visit www.skinnerinc.com Visit www.skinnerinc.com and click on the Buy/Sell tab and click on the Buy/Sell tab to learn more about to find out more about Lot Alert. bidding live online with Skinner-Live! TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 1 Auctctioion & Spececiaialilist InInfoformatatioionn 2 2 WWeb SiSite & Onliline BiBiddiningg 4 4 PPrroovveennaannccee 5 5 LLootts 11--997788 138 Condititioions of Salele 139 Absesentntee BiBid Form 140 Company Dirirectors & Specialtalty Departmentsts 141 Administistrative Staff & CliClient Serviceses 142 Map & DrDrivivining DiDirerectctioionsns 143 Catalogue Subscriptiption Formm Please Note: All lots sold subject to our Conditions of Sale. Please refer to page 138 of this catalogue for the full terms and conditions governing your purchase. Copyright © Skinner, Inc. 2010 All rights reserved Provenance Estate of N. David Scotti, Providence, Rhode Island Lots: 10A, 103, 104, 133, 241A, 442, 460A, 464, 479, 505, 507, 509, 511, 512, 514-517, 519, 522-527, 529, 530, 533-537, 540, 546, 548, 549, 552, 556-559, 562, 567, 570, 571, 575, 577, 579, 585, 588, 589, 592, 593, 595, 596, 600, 602, 605, 606, 608, 614, 618, 622-628, 633, 640-643, 684-687, 689, 690, 692, 693, 696-699, 707, 708, 710-713, 715, 718, 721, 723-734, 736, 737, 743, 745, 747-749, 752, 754, 755, 758-767, 770-773, 775-777, 779-783, 786A, 788, 790, 793, 794, 798, 800, 803, 806, 808-812, 815, 818-820, 824, 827-8330, 834, 844, 845, 850, 859, 867, 868, 870, 877, 880, 881, 896-903, 907, 910, 915, 916, 929, 930, 936, 949, 969, 970 N. David (Nino) Scotti was a lifelong antiques collector and enthusiast, as well as a Southern New England history aficionado. Scotti,, born and raised in Providence, first began attending auctions with his mother in his teens. In his twenties, he co-founded a company in downtown Providence that became Associated Appraisers Inc., an estate auctioneer. 11 In the company’s last thirty years, Scotti was thethe primary owner and manager as well as principal auctioneer. He was active in Providence’s cultural scene, and was an avid supporter of societies such as the Hope Club, the Turk’s Head Club, the Providence Art Club, and the Providence Athenaeum. 1.1. Providence Journal , “N. David Scotti” [obituary], August 26, 2008. 11 1.1. 4.4. Four Grainger Worcester Porcelain Items, England, 1870-1900, Jeweled Venetian Glass Center Bowl, Italy, 20th century, red glass including a tripod vase and cover with mottled mauve, brown, and footed bowl with gold-painted classical scene with oceanic figures, green glazes, gilt trim and jeweled finial, ht. 6; together with three white enamel jeweled borders, ht. 7 3/4, dia. 9 in. ivory ground items: a potpourri and cover, gilt trim to a pierced top $500-700 and bowl with molded foliate designs, dia. 5 1/2; and a pair of two- handled vases with long necks above globular bodies, gilt trim, polychrome enameled with figures of harvesters, ht. 4 3/4 in.; printed 5.5. and impressed marks. Three Royal Worcester Porcelain Perfume Bottles, England, 19th $400-600 century, each gilded and polychrome enameled, two with birds, another with foliage, printed marks, lg. 3 1/4 to 3 5/8 in. $300-500 2.2. Majolica Jardinière and Pedestal Base, Continental, late 19th 6.6. century, polychrome enameled and gilt decorated with shells and Dutch Marquetry Inlaid and Carved Walnut Game Table, 19th scrolled foliates, the jardinière with pierced rim and side medallions, century, with serpentine top and inset leather interior, the candle rests lg. 17, pedestal ht. 28 1/2 in. inlaid with cards, with frieze drawer and acanthus carved cabriole $600-800 legs ending in claw-and-ball feet, ht. 29, wd. 28, dp. 13 1/4 in. $800-1,200 3.3. Gilt-bronze and Porcelain Compote, France, 19th century, the 7.7. cherub base sustaining a branch-form arm with leaves and berries, Mid-Georgian Mahogany Candlestand, 18th century, circular top supporting a hexagonal shaped porcelain dish hand-painted with above a plain stem with ring-turned lower section and tripod base, ht. flowers, overall ht. 24 1/4; dish dia. 9 3/4 in.in. 35, dia. 14 1/2 in. $800-1,200 $200-250 6 440022 7 221155 8.8. 9.9. Longwy Earthenware Mantel Clock, France, late 19th century, Russian Icon with Silver Riza, first quarter 19th century, riza with retailed by Tilden Thurber and Co. of Providence, Rhode Island, buff- city mark for Moscow and hallmark for 1819, depicting Our Lady of colored ground with gilt-framed polychrome enameled cartouches, the Sign, the center with the Virgin overseeing a circular medallion cherubs below the clock dial and flowers with musical instruments depicting the Infant Christ, the upper border portraying God the surrounding the top and to either side, artist signed Quentin, Father, and the side and lower borders painted with David, Moses, impressed factory mark, ht. 13 in. Isaiah, Sofoni, Avvakum, Elijah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Solomon, all $500-800 holding scrolls with Biblical inscriptions and surrounded by floral scrolling foliage; repoussé silver gilt riza, the borders chased with anthemion, the corners applied with cherub masks, the name plates executed in white enamel and the Virgin and Child covered with a seed pearl riza set with faceted stones, ht. 16, wd. 13 3/4 in. $4,000-6,000 99 1010 22661 113 26611 10.10. Spanish School, 19th Century The Crucifixion Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 80 1/2 x 64 3/4 in. (204.5 x 164.5 cm), unframed. Condition: Lined, retouch, trimmed tacking margins, craquelure. $3,000-5,000 10A. Set of Three Framed British Hand-tinted Prints of Napoleonic War Naval Battles, c. 1812, published by G. Andrews, London, after original art by R. and D. Havell, the three plates depicting a naval battle between the squadron under the command of Captain Barrie and the French, each bearing header title To the Captains, Officers & Crews of His Majesty’s Ships Pomone, Captain Barrie, Unite, Captain Chamberlayne, & Scout Brig. Captain Sharpe , French matted and uniformly framed in ebonized and parcel-giltwood frames, sight size 25 1/8 x 19, frame 34 x 28 1/4 in., (not examined out of frame, fading, scattered soiling and spotting, Plate 1 with two repaired tears to lower edge). 1414 $800-1,200 13.13. Art Nouveau Giltwood and Fabric-inset Three-Panel Floor 11.11. Screen, c. 1900, with undulating cresting and shaped panels, all Silk Prayer Rug, India, late 20th century, 3 ft. 9 in. x 2 ft. 6 in. inset with Viennese velvet panels depicting polychrome Art Nouveau $200-300 motifs, ht. 70, wd. 62 in. $3,000-5,000 12.12. 14.14. Tin Glazed Faience Ink Stand, France, 19th century, polychrome William & Mary Walnut Chest of Drawers, early 18th century, with enamel decorated with rococo foliate borders and floral sprays above rectangular top and case fitted with two short drawers over two long figures in a landscape, inkpot and sander inserts, lg. 11 in. drawers, on later bracket feet, ht. 36, wd. 38, dp. 21 in. $100-150 $600-800 14A. George III Mahogany Chest of Drawers, late 18th century, rectangular case fitted with a brushing slide and four graduated drawers, ogee bracket feet, ht. 31, wd. 33, dp. 19 in. $400-600 15.15. Jules Moigniez (French, 1835-1894) Bronze Figure of Merino Ram and Sheep, mounted atop a rocky oval base, dark brown patination, incised signature, ht. 10 in. $1,200-1,800 15A. Italian School, 19th Century Portrait of a Man in Profile 1515 Inscribed “Le D...” in pen on the reverse. Oil on panel, 2 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (5.4 x 4.4 cm), within a hinged metal frame.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Grand Tour of European Porcelain
    Grand Tour of European Porcelain Anna Calluori Holcombe explores the major European porcelain centres Left: Gilder. Bernardaud Factory. embarked on a modern version of the 17th and 18th century Grand Limoges, France. Tour of Europe in summer of 2010 and spent two months researching Right: Designer table setting display. porcelain (primarily tableware) from historical and technical per- Bernardaud Factory. Limoges, France. Photos by Anna Calluori Holcombe. Ispectives. The tradition of Grand Tour promoted the idea of travelling for the sake of curiosity and learning by travelling through foreign lands. On a research leave with a generous Faculty Enhancement Grant A factory was started in 1863 by some investors and, at about from the University of Florida (UF), I visited factories and museums in that time, an apprentice was hired 10 major European ceramics centres. named Léonard Bernardaud. He Prior to this interest in investigating European porcelain, I spent time worked his way up to become a studying Chinese porcelains with fascination and awe. On one of my partner, then acquiring the company in 1900 and giving it his name. many trips to China and my first visit to the famous city of Jingdezhen, I In 1949, the factory introduced climbed Gaoling Mountain, where the precious kaolin that is essential to the first gas-fuelled tunnel kiln in the Chinese porcelain formula was first mined more than 1000 years ago. France operated 24 hours a day, a Soft paste porcelain, which does not have the durability and translu- standard in most modern factories today. Although they had to cut 15 cency found in hard paste porcelain was in popular use in Europe prior percent of their employees in recent to their discovery of hard paste porcelain.
    [Show full text]
  • Catalogue 401 To
    Lots 401 - 410 Lot #401: NAPOLEAN III OPALINE GLASS AND BRASS SIX-ARM CHANDELIER The opaline bowl with six brass candle arms hanging from three chains with glass rod spacers. Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Lot #402: EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU STAND FITTED WITH CUT-GLASS OIL HOLDER The stand with anthemion and petal tip ring on tiered leaf columns and winged lion bases, on leaf-tip square plinth; 34 1/4 in. tall. Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Lot #403: EMPIRE ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT BOUILLOTTE LAMP The diamond fret ovoid stem rising from dished base and supporting the c- scroll arms with berried ends, adjustable silk shade, eagle finial; 23 in. tall. Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Lot #404: BRASS ROCOCO LAMP Electrified; 28 in. tall. Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 400.00 Lot #405: NEOCLASSICAL-STYLE BRASS COLUMN-FORM TABLE LAMP The flared fluted stem on bell-form lower section and square stepped base, column 26 3/4 in. tall; no finial. Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Lot #406: BRASS AND GLASS COLUMN-FORM LAMP 31 in. tall. Estimate: $ 50.00 - $ 100.00 Lot #407: PAIR OF GILT-METAL-MOUNTED BLUE OPALINE GLASS COLUMN-FORM LAMPS Each with square capital ring base and bell-form lower section; 22 1/2 in. to rim. Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00 Lot #408: OPALINE GLASS VASE, MOUNTED AS A LAMP The baluster bowl with gilt-banded wave everted rim, gilt-metal molded base, 28 1/2 in. tall. Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Lot #409: PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BALUSTER-FORM JARS AND COVERS, MOUNTED AS LAMPS Enamel decorated with scaled dragons and cloud bands, wood bases.
    [Show full text]
  • La Lorraine Artiste: Nature, Industry, and the Nation in the Work of Émile Gallé and the École De Nancy
    La Lorraine Artiste: Nature, Industry, and the Nation in the Work of Émile Gallé and the École de Nancy By Jessica Marie Dandona A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Chair Professor Anne Wagner Professor Andrew Shanken Spring 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Jessica Marie Dandona All rights reserved Abstract La Lorraine Artiste: Nature, Industry, and the Nation in the Work of Émile Gallé and the École de Nancy by Jessica Marie Dandona Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art University of California, Berkeley Professor Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Chair My dissertation explores the intersection of art and politics in the career of 19th-century French designer Émile Gallé. It is commonly recognized that in fin-de-siècle France, works such as commemorative statues and large-scale history paintings played a central role in the creation of a national mythology. What has been overlooked, however, is the vital role that 19th-century arts reformers attributed to material culture in the process of forming national subjects. By educating the public’s taste and promoting Republican values, many believed that the decorative arts could serve as a powerful tool with which to forge the bonds of nationhood. Gallé’s works in glass and wood are the product of the artist’s lifelong struggle to conceptualize just such a public role for his art. By studying decorative art objects and contemporary art criticism, then, I examine the ways in which Gallé’s works actively participated in contemporary efforts to define a unified national identity and a modern artistic style for France.
    [Show full text]
  • Limoges Porcelain Ceramic Techniques
    Museum map Chronological itinerary .1. Ceramic techniques CERAMIC TECHNIQUES ANTIQUITY MIDDLE AGES RENAISSANCE ................................................................................................................................................................CHINA ADRIEN DUBOUCHÉ XVII XVIII CENTURIES COLOURS .2. Ceramics from Antiquity to the XVIIIth century .3. Ceramics from the XIXth century to the present XIX ART CENTURY NOUVEAU ART DÉCO GLASSWARE CONTEM- PORARY CERAMICS LIMOGES LIMOGES ................................................................................................................................................................PORCELAIN PORCELAIN XVIII - XIX SIÈCLES XX - XXI SIÈCLES .4. Limoges porcelain Ceramic techniques Garden Mezzanine .............................................................. .............................................................. In front of the museum, Une suite, by Jean-Pierre Presenting the four stages of ceramic manufacturing, Viot and Haguiko, highlights contemporary the mezzanine is part of the museum’s new, ceramic art. Commissioned by the museum in open and light-filled extension. Period machines, 2010, the monumental white concrete stele is illustrating the industrial heritage of Limoges, covered with 600 enamelled porcelain bowls. are displayed alongside contemporary designs. The fountain with enigmatic porcelain heads in the garden is an artwork by Javier Perez entitled Source. Ceramics from Antiquity to the XVIIIth century Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance
    [Show full text]
  • D.G.W. Auctioneers Inc. 760 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA
    D.G.W. Auctioneers Inc. 760 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA. 94086. Phone: (408) 245-1863 Fax: (408) 245-1283 www.dgwauctioneers.com FREE CATALOG AVAILABLE ONLINE California Fine & General Estates Auction Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 10:00 AM (Lots 1-134 are available for online bidding) Preview: Friday: June 10, 2016: 1:00PM – 8:00PM Saturday: June 11, 2016: 8:30AM – 10:00AM A 22% Buyer’s Premium is charged on All Purchases (discounted to 18% if the Payment Method is cash or check) (Refer to online platforms for online Buyer’s premium). READ AUCTION RULES, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDS TO OBTAINING A BIDDER NUMBER, PAYMENT & REMOVAL OF PURCHASED LOTS AUCTION CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 2328 OF THE COMMERCIAL CODE AND SECTION 535 OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE PENAL AND CIVIL CODES No Warranty – All Items Are Sold “AS IS”: D.G.W. Auctioneers & the consignor do not warrant any lot to be merchantable or to be suited to any purpose, and they do not assume any risk, liability or responsibility to any person as to authenticity, genuiness, culture, source, origin, attribution, period, purpose or measurement of any lot. Sales tax of 8.75% is applicable on all sales unless exempt Payment: to be made on Auction Day BUYERS MUST PROVIDE THEIR OWN PACKING MATERIALS. FOR THE REMOVAL OF HEAVY ITEMS, BUYERS MUST PROVIDE THEIR OWN ASSISTANTS. UPCOMING AUCTIONS: Saturday, June 25, 2016; Saturday, July 9, 2016 D.G.W. Auctioneers Inc. 1 Fine & General Estates Auction – June 11, 2016 1 Decca portable gramophone, Junior model. Side crank, Telesmatic sound box.
    [Show full text]
  • Lot Description LOW Estimate HIGH Estimate 2000 Josiah Wedgwood
    LOW HIGH Lot Description Estimate Estimate Josiah Wedgwood and Sons covered vase and pedestal, 18th century, executed in jasperware, having a figural finial depicting a rider on horseback, above the amphora form 2000 body with Classical style scenes on a cobalt ground and rising on a pedestal base accented with lion heads and floral swags, 27"h. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund. $ 3,000 - 5,000 Josiah Wedgwood and Sons "Portland" vase, British, Staffordshire 1864, executed in 2001 jasperware, having a handled form decorated with Classical scenes on a cobalt ground, 10"h. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund. $ 300 - 500 Josiah Wedgwood and Sons jasperware cameo plaque, 19th century, modeled by Pacetti, titled "Priam begging the body of Hector from Achilles", depicting a Classical scene on a dark 2002 green ground, 9.5"h x 21.5"w. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund. $ 1,000 - 2,000 Josiah Wedgwood and Sons jasperware vase designed by John Flaxman (British 1755-1826), 18th century, having a cylindrical form decorated with Classical style scenes accented with 2003 Corinthian columns, 6"h. Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund. $ 500 - 700 Josiah Wedgwood and Sons lidded jasperware urn on pedestal, the vase, 1782, having a figural finial depicting a rider on horseback, above the amphora form body decorated with 2004 Classical style reserves on a light blue ground, above the pedestal, circa 1780-1800, the decoration after a design by John Flaxman (British, 1755-1826), the pillar form having rams head mounts, above winged lions, overall: 27"h.
    [Show full text]
  • Jackson's Auction
    Jackson's Auction Collector's Choice: Antiques & Collectibles Tuesday - September 18, 2012 Collector's Choice: Antiques & Collectibles 1: GALLE CAMEO GLASS AND LOETZ STYLE ART GLASS VASES USD 200 - 400 GALLE CAMEO GLASS AND LOETZ STYLE ART GLASS VASES, CIRCA 1900. The Galle with cut fern decoration (damaged), the Loetz style with amber oil spot finish over an opalescent body with crimped rim. Height 9.5 inches (24 cm) and 5 inches (12.5 cm). 2: A CONSOLIDATED LOVEBIRDS VASE USD 100 - 200 A CONSOLIDATED MOLDED AND FROSTED GLASS LOVEBIRDS VASE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY. With blue patina. Height 10.5 inches (26.5 cm). 3: IN THE MANNER OF LALIQUE, A LARGE CHARGER USD 100 - 200 IN THE MANNER OF LALIQUE, A LARGE MOLDED AND FROSTED GLASS CHARGER, 20TH CENTURY. Depicting dancing nudes on a blue stained ground, apparently unsigned. Diameter 17.75 inches (45 cm). 4: A FRENCH OPALESCENT MOLDED ART GLASS TRAY USD 150 - 250 A FRENCH OPALESCENT MOLDED ART GLASS TRAY, FIRST HALF OF 20TH CENTURY. In the manner of Sabino with large floral blossoms and a butterfly molded in deep relief with powder blue opalescent highlights under a satin finish, apparently unsigned. Diameter 13.25 inches (33.5 cm). 5: A VERLYS MOLDED AND FROSTED GLASS CHARGER USD 150 - 250 A VERLYS MOLDED AND FROSTED GLASS CHARGER, 20TH CENTURY. Depicting three birds in flight and goldfish. Inscribed Verlys. Diameter 13.75 inches (35 cm). 6: AN R. LALIQUE FOR D'ORSAY GLASS CREAM JAR USD 350 - 550 AN R. LALIQUE FOR D'ORSAY MOLDED AND FROSTED GLASS CREAM JAR.
    [Show full text]
  • Fine Art, Silver, Art Pottery & Art Glass Go up for Bid on Saturday, April 24
    News Release / Contact Stephen Turner Turner Auctions + Appraisals 415-964-5250 [email protected] www.turnerauctionsonline.com FINE ART, SILVER, ART POTTERY & ART GLASS GO UP FOR BID ON SATURDAY, APRIL 24 Turner Auctions + Appraisals Offers 260 Lots of Fine and Decorative Art SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 12, 2021 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present the sale of Fine Art, Silver, Art Pottery & Art Glass at its online auction at 10:30 am PST on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Offering 260 lots from various consignors and estates, the sale features a diverse selection of art and decorative arts from the 16th to 21st centuries from the U.S., Europe and Asia. This auction also presents the personal collection of art pottery of Steven Yvaska, a noted writer, speaker, appraiser and advisor on antiques from the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the art in the sale are a variety of paintings, with works by Ira Yeager, Norton Bush, Charles Wilson Knapp, Mary DeNeale Morgan, and Louis Bassi Siegriest. There are also etchings, mounted pressed plants, and botanical prints and plates, some hand-colored, including one by Giovanni Baptista Ferrari. A selection of photographs from San Francisco’s famed Cliff House restaurant, sadly now closed, showcases movie stars, sports figures and other celebrities from the 1930s to the present day; most include autographs and inscriptions. The sale features an extensive array of decorative arts: Herend and Limoges porcelain boxes; mirrors; items of Wedgwood and Jasperware; Roycroft copper pieces; Stangl pottery birds; Dresden porcelain and military figures; an Aubusson tapestry; a French music box and mantel clock; a George III tea caddy; china designed by Paloma Picasso; and neoclassical obelisks, sconces and relief panels.
    [Show full text]
  • Themes from Nature
    Trends Column Themes Tableware Donna Ferrari has worked in magazine publishing for over Trend thirty years. As a consumer Analyst magazine editor she specialised from Donna Ferrari in the tableware, homeware and bridal markets, and styled and produced stories related to bridal gift registry, wedding nature reception design and at-home entertaining. Personally, A potpourri of new dinnerware she has eleven different sets featuring freshly arranged botanicals, of dinnerware and closets dedicated just to tabletop deconstructed flowers, roses by the accessories; she says she loves dozens, bits of woodland wisps and a not ever having to set her table plenitude of birds and bugs are flourishing the same way twice. Floral hybrids Olivier Gagnère, intends to tell More than a bunch of the flowery Gien’s storied history in a new way: patterns arriving at market are crossing the message, a brand with continuity traditional flower imagery with atypical and relevant designs; the method of floral design elements; the result — telling it, Gagnère couples Gien’s past Robert Haviland design hybrids that give new direction designs featuring hallmarks, heraldry & C. Parlon to one of tabletop’s perennially loved and its classic Tulipes Noires pattern genres. Woodland Floral, a porcelain with bold graphic elements delivering pattern from Kim Parker for Gourmet a contemporary vibe. Remastering old Basics by Mikasa delivers flowers and designs into new ones has arrived as a leaves with a charming retro sensibility, major direction in designing tableware. but their ad hoc deconstruction Royal Limoges’s Paradis pattern has updates them into an unfussy floral been in production since the Belle Arzberg arrangement.
    [Show full text]
  • CERAMIC REVIEW 268 July/August 2014 CERAMIC REVIEW 268 July/August 2014 31
    1 Limoges porcelain, amber crackle glaze, 2011, Ø9.5cm The Beauty of the Bowl Dr Walter H Lokau discusses Ipek Kotan’s journey to ceramics and resulting minimalist vessels. Translation by Sabine Goodman. A well-known saying states that there is no need to reinvent the wheel. This expression also holds true for the ceramic vessel: it does not need to be reborn, as a history of human civilisation is unimaginable without the presence of this usually inconspicuous, but nevertheless universal, object of practical use. Yet while the wheel has been traditionally wed to the masculine aspect of human development, the connotations associated with the vessel are the exact opposite. Collecting, preserving, protecting, and dispensing constitute the essence of the vessel. The hand-crafted vessel embodies the principle of femininity. The vessel need not be reinvented. Accepting this immutability represents a commitment, for if a ceramist embraces the absolute formal qualities inherent in the vessel, his or her work becomes an exercise in patience. Indeed, it develops into a very personal, even humble, meditation on the essence of the vessel, a practice that is limited and infinite at the same moment. The works created by Ipek Kotan eloquently exemplify what it means to passionately ask oneself, again and again, the question: ‘What is a vessel, here and now, for me?’ DESIRE TO CREATE Kotan was not predestined to become a ceramist. To an outsider at least, there was no indication that she would embark on a career as an artisan, let alone that of an artist. Growing up in Istanbul, Turkey, and constant exposure to ceramic artefacts in its numerous museums and daily life was perhaps the planting of the seed that would bear fruit so many years later.
    [Show full text]
  • Loan Exhibition Josephine Bowes and the Craze For
    LOAN EXHIBITION JOSEPHINE BOWES AND THE CRAZE FOR COLLECTING CERAMICS IN THE 19TH CENTURY by Howard Coutts Ceramics Officer, Hours Museum, Bttniard Castle. County Durham Although few subjects can have attracted as relationship and that of Louis XV and his mistresses much research as the history of post-Medieval (Josephine had already played a peasant girl imper­ European ceramics, we still know relatively little sonating Madame de Pompadour in Pompadour and about the origin and processes of their appreciation Pompancttc), or Napoleon I and Josephine (of whom in modem times. The process whereby people began The Bowes Museum preserves some momentoes), to think of old pottery and porcelain as ‘antique’, and this may have influenced their interest in works rather than simply unfashionable or second-hand, is of art from the immediate past'. little known. However, by studying the references to By the 1860s it was clear that they were not going the collecting of ceramics in old accounts and books, to have any children, and Josephine appears to have it is possible to piece together something of a history hit on the idea of forming a museum of international of the changes of taste which led to the (re)-appre- scope in order to preserve their name. They no ciation of objects of the past, and the origins doubt took their inspiration from the many of the modem study of ceramics, in the ‘industrial’ or applied art museums 19th century. The study of historic which were being formed in France documented collections such as A and England at this time, with the specific intention of improving those at The Bowes Museum, -S? Barnard Casde, can provide the quality of national manufac- insights into the process of A .
    [Show full text]
  • Quarterly Is Published in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter
    Fall & Winter 2013 HHaavviillaanndd Volume 22, Nos. 3 & 4 QuA Pubalication of thre Havilandt Collecetors International Floundatiy on Crème Faïence Haviland Collectors International Foundation HCIF is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to study and preserve the products made by the early Haviland china companies in France and America. HCIF is incorporated in the State of Missouri. In this issue Membership Membership in HCIF is open to all interested persons. A single household membership is $50. Membership applications should be A Worthy Experiment: accompanied by one-year dues (July1 –June 30). Checks should be made payable to HCIF and mailed to HCIF, P. O. Box 5163, Buffalo Grove, IL Haviland & Co. Crème Faïence . 4 60089. Applications received prior to April 1 will be considered to be for the current year and those applications will be mailed all back newsletters for that year. Applications received April 1 and after will be accepted for Fish Platters, Plates and Sets . 12 the next membership year, which begins July 1. Membership does not imply endorsement by HCIF. Officers for 2013-14 The Beginning of Porcelain President, Fred Daniels First Vice President, Alice Pricer in Limoges, France . 14 Second Vice President, Paul Robertson Treasurer, Perry Haviland Corresponding/Membership Secretary, Arthur Levin The Haviland Figural Recording Secretary, Jackie Doctor Board of Directors Humidors . 18 The Board of Directors is elected by the membership. Directors serve without compensation. Board members and terms of office are as follows: HCIF Grand Tour 2013: 2011-2014 2012-2015 2013-2016 Donna Hafer Fred Daniels Jackie Doctor Mary Ann Harrigan Celeste Graham Perry Haviland Paris, Limoges, & Loire Valley .
    [Show full text]