Sales Archives 2015

Large sized Otto Brauer for Kastrup Holmegaard Carnaby (Denmark) series "Gulvase". Green over white casing - white label

Alessi Oil and Vinegar cruets designed by Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) in 1980 for Rossi & Arcandi group for Cleto Munari, licensed to Alessi in 1984. The lids are cleverly counterbalanced to open on their own as the cruet is tilted for pouring. The glass is lead crystal with all inox/stainless steel metal work. The vinegar cruet retains an Alessi label. Both bases are impressed with "Officina ALESSI Inox Italy". This is the only set we have seen with an original all-black surface finish.

Large biomorphic shaped California pottery center piece or fruit bowl with a high gloss bright colorful striped interior and black exterior.

Sleek Sgrafo (Germany) porcelain fish dish/bowl. Predominantly white interior with powder blue exterior.

Wooden Hedgehog by Danish sculptor Gunnar Millet Westman (1911-1985) manufactured by Peter Trock (Denmark). Very cute, base is fully marked wood may be natural teak.

Streamlined abstract crystal fish with controlled bubble eyes and bellies designed by Vicke Lindtrand for Kosta (Sweden) in the 1960s (Etch signed Kosta LH 1624)

Ruscha (Germany) 315 Pitcher in black circa 1954. This vase came in only one size (larger than Kurt Tschorner's 315 vase). Super architectural shaped piece accentuated by its pure black glaze.

Pair of beautiful white ceramic covered (1 quart) Casserole dishes by Rosenthal (Germany).

Brushed stainless steel bowl with welded on feet featuring a great graphic fish motif applied using some fusion technique for which they were named. Estimated to be from mid 1960s based on similar product lines in this material.

Nicely crafted in a mod style, 3 piece deer family (buck, doe and fawn) in dark nicely grained wood.

One of sculptor ceramicist Paul Bellardo's (1924-) "signature" pieces and featured in his 1970 "Heads of the Universe" exhibition. Montezuma Sunburst head sculpture in cast durastone produced and copyrighted by Austin Productions 1968.

Mod shaped Japanese porcelain shoulder vase. Enough of an old label to determine that it is Japanese.

Three signed white porcelain Bjorn Wiinblad (1918-2006) decorated cylindrical vases in the studio linie line manufactured by Rosenthal (Germany) in 1981. The largest and smallest feature birds and flora while the medium sized vase features his whimisical girls and flora in relief. All have high gloss white glazed interiors with matt unglazed exteriors.

Super pitcher and bowl set by Sascha Brastoff - both featuring one of his trademark horse designs in gold and silver tones. Both piece full signed by figures and on bases.

Modernist Italian ceramic elephant figure with raised trunk. Marked made in Italy (probably Lineasette)

Small two-tone squirrel from the collectible 1970s Abraham Palatnik Aremis (Brazil) acrylic Op Art animal series.

Small older well patinated probably brass lying horse figure sculpture.

Nickerson designed Blenko 7223 tall vase with free-form top - in classic Blenko teal blue.

Joel Myers for Blenko decanter design model number 6715. Honey colored spout and air-twist stopper. As far as we can tell this piece was only produced and in catalogues for one year 1967 (presumably due to the applied spout's complexity as a simplified version without the spout was produced in 1968 as model number 6842)

Architectural sized large volume Blenko mushroom stoppered decanter designed in 1973 by John Nickerson in Wheat color (1969-1983)