Catalog (678)

A very small stem cup with a goldfish in the center surrounded by Shou and bats and auspicious fruit: peach, pomegranate and finger citron. Guangxu period, c 1900, the interior of the foot with four characters in iron-red. Height "2 / 5 cm. Condition: a a few minor glaze chips to the rims (cf. pics)

A pair of Japanese porcelain footed sake cups, the interiors with minuscule calligraphy of Waka poems, the exteriors with the “hundred poets” motif in Satsuma style against a background of gilt and red. Probably early 20th century, Kutani marks to base. Height "2/ 5.5 cm. Condition: fine.

A pair of Bohemian / Czech Harrach 1880s blue gray opaline mugs with enameled floral decoration, the handles reeded and gilt. Height "3 ½ / 9 cm. Condition: fine.

Blue satin overlay ever vase, thorn handled and decorated with hop bines in enamels and gilt. Bohemian / Czech, late 19th century, probably Harrach. Height "8 / 20 cm. Condition: fine.

A Victorian diamond cut crystal scent or perfume bottle, barrel shaped, c 1900. Length "2 /5.5 cm. Condition: stopper not belonging.

Early 1950's silver plate and enamel bowl, designed by Henning Koppel. This model was produced in more than one color and size and by more than one Danish silverware producer, the foremost being Georg Jensen. This bowl is marked (illegible)…dröste and Denmark. Diameter "4 ½ / 11.2 cm and height "2 ¼ / 6 cm. Condition: some wear to the silvered surface as expected (cf. pics).

Mosaic pottery tazza and vase from the 1940s or 50s, by Gerbino, France. The handling and modelling of clays in various colors necessary for the creation of this kind of art objects was a complicated procedure, mastered only by Jean Gerbino and his family in Vallauris, the French studio pottery center of the period. Impressed marks Gerbino and Vallauris. Height of tazza "3 ½ / 9 cm and of the vase "5 ½ / 14 cm, diameter of tazza "6/ 15 cm. Condition: fine.

Cup and saucer, both with a flower border in underglaze blue and a peony in the center. The exterior with a light Café-au-lait variation of the brown “Batavia” glaze (Batavia being the Dutch name for the VOC shipping harbour, today's Jakarta). Yongzheng, early 18th century, the base with a shop mark. Diameter of saucer "4 ½ / 11.5 cm, height of cup "1 2/3/ 4.3 cm. Condition: the cup with three chips to the rim and foot rim, two of them with old repairs (cf. pics).

A pair of Imari cups, scalloped rims and decoration of reserves with landscapes and calligraphy in underglaze blue and little berries or dots in overglaze red. Japanese, Edo around 1860, shop mark in underglaze blue. Height "2 ½/ 6.2 cm, diameter "3 ¼ / 8.3 cm. Condition: fine.

Circular cobalt blue bowl, a relief design of silver flecks forming a shimmering nebula inside the massive rim. Murano c 1960 and probably by Seguso. Diameter "4 ½ / 11.5 cm, height "1 2/3 / 4 cm. Condition: fine.

Small and beautiful cased opaline and clear glass bulb vase, with speckles in reddish brown to puce over the light blue opaline. By Arthur Percy for Gullaskruf glassworks. A few pieces in this series entered the collections of the National Swedish Glass Museum in 1960, hence the dating of this item. Height "1 ¾ / 4.7 cm. Condition: fine.

Vase of square shape, enamel on copper by Paolo de Poli, Italy, 1950’s. The exterior in partly transparent ultramarine blue, the interior black. The base with impressed P. de Poli Made in Italy. Height and width "2 ¾ / 7 cm. Condition: fine.

Two lovely pottery vases by Czech Dux, c 1930 or late 1920’s, the larger vase drop shaped, the smaller one bulbous. Slip glaze decoration of grapes in blue, green and brown over white. Height “11 ½ / 29 cm and “4 / 10.5 cm respectively. Green acorn within triangle mark and DUX to the larger vase, impressed model numbers to both. Condition: minor crackling to glaze of the smaller vase, the larger with a nick to the foot rim.

Softly folded modernist silver ring from Hans Hansen, Denmark, c 1960s. Makers mark HaH and 925 S. Inner diameter "3/4 / 19 mm. Condition: fine.

Early 20th century silver and rhinestone or paste earrings, from Knoll & Pregizer in Pforzheim, Germany. K&P started up in 1887 and specialized in hand made sterling silver and imitation stones jewelry. The diameter of the little paste flowers is "1/4 / 8 mm, each with impressed KP shield mark and 925. Condition: fine.

Brutalist bracelet made up by five large cast, sawed and oxidized sterling silver links. From Finnfeelings, the firm of Sten & Laine, Turku, Finland. Marks: the dented small mark of Finnfeelings, 925, A (city mark for Abo /Turku), year mark U7 = 1973, Finland and Swedish importation mark. Length when clasped "7 ¾ / 20 cm, width "1 1/3 / 3.4 cm, weight 52 grams. Falls smoothly around the wrist. Condition: fine.

Pair of sterling silver modernist cufflinks by Hans Hansen, Copenhagen: two concave and cylindrical roundels of tapering form. Double H mark, 925 S and Denmark. Upper surface diameter "2/3 / 1.6 cm. Condition: fine.

Suprematist or Constructivist style stick pin: geometric design of a bar and a circle in black and teal plastic, unsigned, 1920s. Length "1 ¼ / 3.3 cm. Condition: fine.