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A Good Early 20th Century Archibald Knox Design Tudric Pewter Square Section Biscuit Box With Drop In Double Flange Cover And Embossed Decoration Of Stylised Sunflowers.
140mm square.
Stamped English Pewter Mark And Numbered 194.
 

Price: SOLD

A Vintage 20th Century Fruit Machine Glass Back Panel - Electrocoins Casino Big. Ideal As Conversion For Lamp - Lightbox. Measures H40 x W51 (cm)
 

A Lalique Style Opalescent Glass Vase Moulded In Relief With Fruiting Vine; Moulded Signature To Base.
136mm High.
Excellent Condition, Make A Great Gift For Someone In The Wine Industry.

A Gorgeous Set Of 12 + Jack 20th Scottish Pottery Carpet Bowls Painted With Cross Hatching And Cell Pattern, Contained In A Mid Century Fijian Kava Bowl, By Repute Formerly The Property Of Sir Walter Nash.
The Kava Bowl 380mm Diameter.
Extremely Decorative!

An Extremely Stylish Pair Of 20thC Polished Black Stone Obelisks, Purchased By A Retiring Diplomat In New York.
455mm High.
Excellent Condition

A Very Stylish Late 20th Century Asprey Leather Stationery File With Mounted Spring Action Brass Lock, In Original Box.
290mm x 250mm

"Tanagra," A 1930's French, Sabino, Lalique Style Opalescent Glass Figure,  Of A Scantily Draped Lady On A Circular Base.
197mm High.
Etched "Sabino Paris" Marks To Base.
Very Nice Opalescence, Excellent Condition.

Price: SOLD

A Stylish English, Tudric, 2 Handle Hammered Pewter Rectangular Tray with shaped low edge and raised loop handles.
480mm x 294mm
Stamped Tudric Marks and numbered 043 - an early number.
Circa 1900.

An Attractive Early Ruskin Green Monochrome Circular Bowl On Raised Circular Foot.
Painted Scissor Mark, Circa 1910.
147mm Diameter.
Very Crisply Potted, Light As A Feather, Resonant To The Touch, Excellent Condition.

Price: SOLD

A Gorgeous English, Ruskin, Studio Pottery Baluster Or Mei Ping Vase With Mottled Pink Glaze.
194mm High.
Impressed Ruskin And Dated 1919.
A Small Piece Rim Broken And Restuck, Hence The Modest Price, Perfect More Like $750.
When the studio closed in 1935 the formulae for the glazes and all the pottery documentation were deliberately destroyed, so that the unique Ruskin products could never be replicated.

Price: SOLD

An Extremely Stylish Austrian Secessionist Clear Glass Claret Jug With Green Cased Vertical Ribs And Gilded Brass Mount, Handle And Hinged Cover Featuring Stylised Foliage.
Unidentified Mark "V S" With Sailing Ship Not Identified.
220mm High.
Circa 1910.

Price: SOLD

A Good Early 20th Century Archibald Knox Design Tudric Pewter Square Section Biscuit Box With Drop In Double Flange Cover And Embossed Decoration Of Stylised Sunflowers.
104mm square.
Stamped English Pewter Mark And Numbered 194.

Price: SOLD

An Early 20th Century Tudric Pewter Oval Tea Caddy With Circular Lift Off Cover Inset With A Small Turquoise Cabochon.
Stamped English Pewer And Numbered 0614.
90mm High x 92mm Wide.
Excellent Condition With Original Patina.

Price: SOLD

A Good Early 20th Century Archibald Knox Design Tudric Pewter Square Section Biscuit Box With Drop In Double Flange Cover And Embossed Decoration Of Stylised Sunflowers.111mm square.Made for Liberty And Co.Stamped Tudric Mark And Numbered 194.

Price: SOLD

A Tall Ruskin Tapering Cylindrical Vase With Narrow Neck And Mauve Glaze.
Impressed Marks, Dated 1913.
247mm High.

A Ruskin Tapering Cylindrical Vase With Everted Rim And Spreading Circular Foot; Lustrous Flecked Turquoise Glaze.
Impressed marks, dated 1916.
151mm High.

A Mintons Secessionist Art Nouveau Slender Oviform Vase With Narrow Neck And Typical Tube Lined Turquoise Tendrils On A Purple Ground.
Printed Marks, Circa 1900.
102mm High.

A Most Decorative Pair Of Bohemian 1930's Art Deco Cobalt Blue Faceted Octagonal Vases with heavy bases and flaring double waisted bodies.
349mm High.
One vase slightly smaller and paler, not noticeable unless placed side by side.
These vases are truly spectacular and will make a bold decorative statement. No need to worry about them toppling over, they weigh a ton and with the addition of flowers and water will be difficult to lift.

A Spectacular 1930's French, Etling, Lucille Sevin Art Deco Opalescent Glass Vase of lozenge shape on circular base, moulded in high relief each side with a full length figure of a scantily draped lady.
Moulded "France" and "Etling" marks to base, moulded signature bottom right for "Sevin."
307mm High x 240mm Wide

In 1909 Edmond Laurent Etling founded a firm under his own name. He opened a shop in Paris on the 'Rue de Paradis nr. 29. In this shop one could buy the most exclusive art objects of that time, mainly made of bronze, ceramics or glass. Etling represented world famous sculptors and artists like Dimitri Chiparus, A. Godard, Claire-Jean Roberte Colinet, Lucille Sevin and her husband Jean Theodore Delabassé, Gazan, Georges Béal, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière and Marcel Guillard. These artisans were all leading members of the French modern art of that time and by creating ideal circumstances for them, Etling played a significant role in the style, which later became known as art deco.

A Group Of Keith Murray Basalt Vases.
Impressed marks and facsimile signatures.
Circa 1935

New Zealand-born Keith Day Pearce Murray was one of the most influential and significant modernist designers. Born in Stokes Road, Mt Eden in 1892, Murray emigrated to England at the age of 14 with his parents Charles Henry Murray, originally from Peterhead, Scotland, and Lillian Day Murray (nee George), from Nelson. Although he graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1921, he turned his considerable design and drawing skills to working in the decorative arts for most of the 1930s

Coincident with his successful glass work, Murray began designing ceramic tablewares for Wedgwood. In contrast to the highly coloured decorated wares of contemporary Art Deco designers such as Clarice Cliff, his style of ceramic decoration was characterised by subtle glaze finishes and an architectonic furrowing of parallel horizontal grooves which served to accentuate the classical purity of his forms. The simplicity of his designs meant they were relatively inexpensive to produce, and could be adapted to slip casting rather than hand-potting, thus fulfilling Wedgwood's request for 'new cheap shapes, attractive to modern eyes' which would be 'the best possible for the money and reasonably attractive to that growing section of the younger public which has some taste but no money.'

Murray's first designs for Wedgwood were made in a cream-coloured earthenware (Queensware), and also in black, and later bronze, basalt stoneware, produced by mixing colours obtained from cobalt oxide, iron oxide and manganese oxide.

His work was widely exhibited and photographed, and won Murray numerous awards and accolades, including a gold medal at the 5th Triennale in Milan in 1933, and a place among the ten designers to become Royal Designers for Industry, where he later held the title of Master of the Faculty from 1945 to 1947.
(text from http://www.artdeco.org.nz/p42.htm)

A pair of Wedgwood, Keith Murray, annular vases of football shape with raised necks under matt green glazes.
23cm high.
Circa 1935
Printed marks and facsimile signatures.

A Wedgwood, Keith Murray, annular vase of shouldered form under matt green glaze.
17cm high.
Circa 1935
Impressed marks and facsimile signature.

A Superb Wedgwood Keith Murray blue monochrome banded shoulder vase.
Printed factory marks and designer's monogram.
Circa 1935.

Claimed as one of our own, Keith Murray, an iconic New Zealander, architect and great exponent of modern movement ceramics.
What a shape. Strong as!

281mm high.

A Superb Wedgwood Keith Murray green monochrome banded shoulder vase.
Printed factory marks and facsimile signature; impressed factory marks.
Circa 1930.

Claimed as one of our own, Keith Murray, an iconic New Zealander, architect and great exponent of modern movement ceramics.

281mm high.

A Good Ruskin Tall Tapering Cylindrical Vase With Narrow Neck And Iridescent Purple Glaze.
Impressed marks, dated 1917, together with original paper label.
237mm High

A Ruskin Tapering Cylindrical Vase With Pronounced Shoulder, Narrow Neck, Everted Rim And Raised Foot; Turquoise Glaze.
Impressed West Smethwick Mark, Dated 1905.
163mm High.

A 1920's Rene Lalique "Ceylan" slender oviform opalescent glass vase.
Moulded in relief with budgerigars.
Etched mark to base.
Rim chip & small foot rim chip.
242mm high.

Very Stylish. Very Rare.
An early 20thC sterling silver mounted glass claret jug, the design attributed to Dr.Christopher Dresser, a founding father of modern design. Difficult to believe this lovely sleek jug is almost 100 years old!
Birmingham 1914,
Hukin & Heath.

A jug for the connoisseur.
200mm high.