20th Century Design Sale 2737B June 28, 2014 Boston 20th Century Design Specialist Jane Prentiss Department Director 508.970.3253 Department Inquiries: 508.970.3111 Auction Information Auction 2737B Preview Absentee Bidding Saturday, June 28 Thursday, June 26 T: 617.874.4318 10AM 12 to 5PM F: 617.350.5429 63 Park Plaza Friday, June 27 General Inquiries Boston, MA 12 to 8PM 617.350.5400 SkinnerLive!: skinnerinc.com View all lots online at www.skinnerinc.com COVER: 323–325; FRONTISPIECE: 386; BACK COVER: 391 (DETAIL) Bid online with SkinnerLive! Simply click the BID LIVE button on the auction schedule: www.skinnerinc.com/auctions Log in to bid or just watch the Hear the bidding action with crystal-clear audio Follow the auction in real time See full catalog descriptions and condition reports See upcoming and past lots while bidding www.skinnerinc.com SkinnerLive! Table of Contents 1 Auction & Specialist Information 2 Web Site & Online Bidding 4 Event Information 7 Provenance 8 Lots 1–547 138 Conditions of Sale 139 Absentee Bid Form 140 Company Directors & Specialty Departments 141 Administrative Staff & Client Services 142 Map & Driving Directions 143 Subscription Form Please Note: All lots sold subject to our Conditions of Sale. Please refer to page 138 of this catalog for the full terms and conditions governing your purchase. Copyright © Skinner, Inc. 2014 Proudly printed by DS Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved 120 Stedman Street, Lowell, MA 01851 800-536-8283 • dsgraphics.com MA/Lic. #2304 Proudly printed by DS Graphics, Inc. 120 Stedman Street, Lowell, MA 01851 800-536-8283 • dsgraphics.com 20th Century Design Gallery Walk Friday, June 27th, 2014 6PM Reception 6:30PM Gallery Walk Jane Prentiss and Jonathan Fairbanks from Fuller Craft Museum discuss highlights from the auction Skinner Gallery 63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA RSVP 508.970.3240 or [email protected] reservations are limited Held in conjunction with Skinner’s June 28th auction of 20th Century Design 4 20th Century Design Auction fullerCRAFT at Skinner Inc., Boston museumTM Let the art touch you to benefit Fuller Craft Museum Saturday, June 28, 2014, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Support Fuller Craft Museum. Join us at Skinner Inc., Boston for a fundraiser auction at 63 Park Plaza, Boston. Items donated for the benefit of Fuller Craft Museum will be featured in the section devoted to the Studio Movement. See the works to be auctioned in person during the Skinner preview days: Thursday, June 26, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm & Friday, June 27, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The online auction will be viewable two weeks before June 28th at http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2737B. Advance bidding is also available. Artists featured in the auction: Toots Zynsky, Warren MacKenzie, Kay Sekimachi, Boris Bally, Garry Knox Bennett, and other renowned contemporary craftsmen. For more info call 508.588.6000 or visit www.fullercraft.org Upcoming Exhibitions at Fuller Craft Museum Upcoming Events and Workshops Dorothy Simpson Krause Book + Art June 1, 2:00 pm Wood artist Michelle Holzapfel Lecture June 14, 2014 – November 2, 2014 June 5, 7:00 pm Indaba Theater and the MIT Glass Band Annette Bellamy: Floating June 7, 1:00 pm The Stories We Tell Ekphrastic Poetry Reading June 29, 2014 – November 2, 2014 June 8, 11:00 am Summer Chess Tournament Reception for Krause, Gateway Arts, and Bellamy June 14, 10:00 am Linda Scharf Yarn Spinning Workshop Sunday, June 29, 2:00 pm July 12 – 13, 10:00 am Ken Lindgren Wood Turning Workshop July 31, 2014, 6:30 pm Craft in America: Industry Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators Screening with guest speaker, author James Sullivan July 5, 2014 – November 23, 2014 August 8, 10:00 am, Free Fun Friday Small Expressions, July 12, 2014 – October 4, 2014 August 9, 12:00 pm Anastasia Azure Woven Paper Workshop Reception for Game Changers & Small Expressions Sunday, August 3, 2:00 pm August 16, 10:00 am A. Azure Woven Metal Jewelry Workshop 455 Oak Street, Brockton, MA 02301 Toots Zynsky, More Jazz Chaos, 1994. 7 1/4 x 16 1/8 x 9”; “Filet-de-Verre,” Hours: Tues – Sun, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Thurs 5:00 – 9:00 pm fused and thermoformed color glass threads. Photo credit: Toots Zynsky. CALDER KINETIC MONUMENTAL DRAMATIC Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic Opens September 6 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Calder Foundation, New York. Supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation provided generous support. The East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum provided additional support. In-Kind Media Partner: WBUR 161 Essex Street | Salem, MA | pem.org Alexander Calder, La Demoiselle, 1939, Glenstone. © 2014 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS). MK2960_CALDER_Skinner_AD_FNL.indd 1 5/19/14 2:03 PM Provenance Property from: A Massachusetts Estate A New York Estate A Private California Collection A Private Maine Collection A Private Florida Collection A Private New York Collection A Pennsylvania Collection Fuller Craft Material: Donated by the artists and private collectors 1 1 Art Nouveau Figural Lamp with Alabaster Shades Patinated metal, alabaster Early 20th century Female figure with nude upper body holding two vines terminating in tulip-form alabaster shades each fitted with a single socket, her lower body draped with a cloth, resting on a standard terminating in a wide leaf base, ht. 20 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500 2 Ten Art Nouveau Silver Accessories Predominantly sterling silver United States/Continental, early 20th century Two floral decorated matchsafes, two pairs of opera glasses, floral decorated seal, iris form clip, small flask with woman smoking on one side, berry spoon with pierced iris-decorated bowl, small iris-decorated purse, and an iris-decorated covered prayer book, approx. 15.75 troy oz. total weighable silver. $300-500 3 French Art Nouveau Dish Glazed ceramic France, early 20th century Double lobed form with central handle decorated with a woman’s face, in a blue 5 metallic iridescent glaze, base stamped Cythere and Unis France, lg. 15 1/2 in. $300-500 4 Gouda Het Hert Matte Glaze Vase Art pottery Holland, c. 1900 Bottle form with hand-decorated design in blue on white ground, marked with stylized stag’s head, Hert, Old Holland, and 7 in blue on base, hairlines on handle and minor loss, ht. 11 3/4 in. $300-400 5 Gouda High Glaze Two-handled Vase Art pottery Holland, c. 1906 PZH polychrome decoration of flowers and foliage, painted mark, ht. 10 3/4 in. $400-600 8 Additional information and photos at www.skinnerinc.com 6 6 7 9 Art Nouveau Roll-top Desk Gouda High Glaze Vase Gouda Matte Glaze Vase and Candlestick Fruit and nut woods and veneers Art pottery Art pottery France, late 19th/early 20th century Plateel Bakkerij factory, Zuid, Holland, early Holland, early 20th century Shelf with center platform over burlwood 20th century Damascus pattern vase with polychrome veneer roll-top interior fitted with four drawers Elongated neck over tapering form with overall floral-decorated band on green/black ground, with open shelf above three open center floral and foliate design on beige ground, marked 327, Damascus, III, Gouda in blue compartments, ormolu pulls and lock with key, Made in Zuid Holland, H.H. in blue at base, at base, 327S impressed at base, later drill raised on four shaped legs, approx. ht. 50 3/4, 190 impressed at base, ht. 12 3/4 in. hole at base obscuring marks; polychrome wd. 44, dp. 26 1/2 in. $600-800 floral decoration on olive ground, with bulbous $1,500-2,000 bobeche over drip plate on flared body, marked Massa, Gouda, Holland, KS in blue at 8 base, chip at base rim; ht. 13 1/4 and 15 1/8 Gouda Matte Glaze Vase in., respectively. Art pottery $400-600 Holland, c. 1912 PZH Damascus pattern with polychrome floral and foliate medallions, marked Made in Holland, 0.106, F in blue at base, ht. 11 1/4 in. $500-700 Online bidding at www.skinnerinc.com 9 11 10 12 14 Gouda Handled Vase Art Nouveau Armchair and Ottoman Art Nouveau Cigarette Cutter and a Belt Art pottery Fruitwood, ormolu Buckle Holland, early 20th century Paris, France, c. 1900 Sterling silver, copper Polychrome floral decoration on olive ground, Curvilinear form with leaf detail ormolu United States, late 19th/early 20th century marked Floralia, Holland, Gouda, HH in blue at finials and foot mounts, later upholstery, Gorham mixed-metal lady’s hammered sterling base, ht. 13 3/4 in. accompanied by conforming square ottoman, silver cutter with copper accent, hallmarked $250-350 chair ht. 41 1/4, wd. 27 1/4, dp. 21; ottoman and sterling; and a belt buckle in the form of ht. 16 3/4, wd. 16, dp. 16 in. an open leaf accented by applied insects, loss $1,000-1,500 to one insect, marked W with three rays on each side, sterling 47, respective lg. 3 3/8 and 11 1 5/8 in. Art Nouveau Decorative Platter $400-600 Ceramic, bronze 13 France, c. 1900 Art Nouveau Mont Joye Vase Shell-form, decorated with a hand-painted Art glass 15 waterscape with sailboats, surrounded by France, c. 1900 Reed & Barton Baby’s Mug and a Pair of cold-painted metal twigs with snail-form pot Cylindrical form with enameled decoration of Japanese Silver Casters fitted with bronze lid and with conforming twig stylized thistle flowers in gilt and purple enamel Sterling silver finial, ht.