Including Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Art Pottery and Studio Ceramics
Sotheby's London
December 4, 1985
Softcover
English text
Featuring 406 lots illustrated in colour and black and white
21 x 27 cm approx.
A brilliant sale catalogue, featuring many landmark twentieth-century art design pieces alongside some fascinating lesser-known ones. For me, the many highlights include a fine selection of Art Nouveau and later glass by Loetz, Marquis, Galle, Daum , Lalique, Argy Rousseau, Orrefors, Steuben, Leerdam, Venini et al, a section devoted to Wiener Werkstatte with a enamelled metal box by Maria Likarz and a stupendous gilt bronze chandalier with matching wall sconces by Dagobert Peche, an unusual pair of copper and brass candlesticks by Christoper Dresser among a fine array of silverware also including pieces by Artificer's Guild, Guild of Handicraft, Omar Ramsden, Georg Jensen et al., a section of fine Liberty lots several by or attributed to Archibald Knox and a particularly important gold, enamlel, plique a jour enamel and moonstone necklace by Fred Partridge, ceramics by Zsolnay, Arthur Percy, Wahliss, Rozenberg, Goldscheider and several by Clarice Cliff. Furthermore there's a lithographic poster Kunst Schau by Oskar Kokoschka, a Merton Abbey tapestry titled FLora by the Pre-Raphaleite artist Burne-Jones, a small selection of William Morris furniture and furnishings, a William Watt ebonised part cabinet, also an important oak dresser by C.F.A. Voysey, a Wylie and Lockhead mahogany wardrobe possibly by Baillie-Scott and an oak stool from the smoking room of the Argyle Street tea rooms by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Other fine pieces of furniture include a Majorelle oak and walnut study, a Thonet reclining rocking armchair, a pair of Bugatti side chairs, a large Carlo Zen mirror, a mahogany vitrine attributed to Vallin, an Isokon chaise longue by Marcel Breuer and an unsual Isokon chair by the same and a carpet designed by Frank Brangwyn for James Templeton ca. 1930. The afternoon session was devoted to Art Pottery and Studio Glass and featured 179 lots. These included Doulton stoneware and various other wares, Moorcroft, Mintons, including the Seven Ages of Man - a set of seven plaques by Henry Stacy Marks ca. 1873, Martin Brothers, Burmantofts and various other factories, Bernard Leach and St Ives Pottery, Michael Cardew, William Staite Murray, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. The catalogue presents an array of dazzling pieces of furniture, applied art, fine art, glass, ceramics and industrial design and is not to be missed.
Condition: Very good used condition with only light signs of use to the covers. Inside it's very clean and bright with no inscriptions. A separate sheet of prices realised in the saleroom on the day is loosely inserted.
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