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&item=A Fine and Rare Sterling Silver Centerpiece Bowl<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=United States&made_year=1946&dimensions=12 inches across&marked=Marked: <i>ALLAN ADLER/HANDMADE/STERLING</i>&addendum=According to its maker only a few examples of this design were made when production resumed just after the end of World War II.<br /><br />On Allan Adler: <i>Silverware Reflects Modern Styling</i>. <u>New York Times</u>, 23 March 1946, 10.
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&item=A Fine and Rare Sterling Silver After Dinner Coffee Service<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made by International Sterling Craft Associates, Meriden, Connecticut, US&made_year=1952&dimensions=Height of pot: 9 inches&marked=Marked: <i>International Sterling/La Paglia Designed</i>&addendum=On Alphonse La Paglia: Alan Rosenberg. <i>Modern American Silver.</i> <u>Modernism Magazine</u>. Fall 2001, 24.
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&item=A Sterling Silver Centerpiece Bowl and Matching Compote<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made by International Sterling Craft Associates, Meriden, Connecticut, US&made_year=circa 1950&dimensions=&marked=Marked: <i>International Sterling/La Paglia Designed</i>&addendum=On Alphonse La Paglia: Alan Rosenberg. <i>Modern American Silver.</i> <u>Modernism Magazine</u>. Fall 2001, 24.
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&item=<i>Contour,</i> A Sterling Silver Coffee Service<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Manufactured by The Towle Silversmiths, United States&made_year=1951&dimensions=Height of pot: 10 inches&marked=Marked: <i>TOWLE/STERLING</i> &addendum=<i>Contour</i> was the first modern design introduced by a large silver manufacturer after the Second World War.<br /><br />On Contour and John Van Koert: <i>The Fluid Line.</i> New York Herald Tribune - This Week Magazine, 25 September 1955.
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&item=A Glass <i>Majakka</i> (Lighthouse) Vase<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made at the Nuutajarvi Glassworks, Finland&made_year=1964&dimensions=19 inches high&marked=Signed: <i>Nuutajarvi Notsjo</i>&addendum=On Oiva Toikka: Alan Rosenberg. <i>Oiva Toikka.</i> in <u>Contemporary Designers</u>, Sara Pendergast, ed. London: Saint James Press, 1995.
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&item=A Glass <i>Pompom</i> Vase<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made at the Nuutajarvi Glassworks, Finland&made_year=1968&dimensions=5 inches high&marked=Signed: <i>Oiva Toikka Nuutajarvi Notsjo</i>&addendum=On Oiva Toikka: Alan Rosenberg. <i>Oiva Toikka.</i> in <u>Contemporary Designers</u>, Sara Pendergast, ed. London: Saint James Press, 1995.
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&item=Two Cased Glass Vases&materials=&made_place=Made at the Nuutajarvi glassworks, Finland&made_year=1960&dimensions=The taller vase, 10.5 inches tall&marked=Both Signed: <i>K.F. Nuutajarvi Notsjo - 60</i>&addendum=On Kaj Franck: Christopher Mount. <u>Kaj Franck: Designer</u>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992.
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&item=Two Cased Glass Vases, Model 3586&materials=&made_place=Made at the Iittala glassworks, Finland&made_year=circa 1955&dimensions=The taller vase, 11.5 inches high, 3.25 inches diameter<br />The shorter vase, 7.5 inches high, 2 inches diameter&marked=Both signed: <i>TAPIO WIRKKALA 3586</i>&addendum=On Tapio Wirkkala: <u>Tapio Wirkkala</u>. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Crafts and Design, 1985.
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&item=Two Cased Glass Vases&materials=&made_place=Made at the Riihimaki glassworks, Finland&made_year=circa 1966&dimensions=12 and 8 inches high&marked=&addendum=
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&item=A Massive, Glazed Terracotta Bowl<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Denmark&made_year=circa 1960&dimensions=22 inches diameter&marked=Signed: <i>GRETHE LINDBLAD/DANMARK</i>&addendum=On Grethe Lindblad: Erik Zahle, ed. <u>A Treasury of Scandinavian Design</u>. New York: Golden Press, 1961, 209, 282.
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&item=<i>Espana</i> Porcelain Demitasse Service&materials=&made_place=Manufactured by Bidasoa (Spain) for Block (USA)&made_year=1965&dimensions=&marked=&addendum=A limited number of <i>Espana</i> demitasse services were manufactured in the copper lustre glaze seen in this example.<br><br>Illustrated and described in: Charles Venable, ed. <u>China and Glass in America, 1880-1980</u>. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2000.
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&item=Two Glazed Earthenware Vases<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made at the A.R. Cole Pottery, Sanford, NC&made_year=circa 1950&dimensions=10.75 inches tall and 8 inches tall, respectively&marked=Each marked with the pottery's impressed mark: <i>A.R. COLE POTTERY/SANFORD, N.C.</i>&addendum=A related vase in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC. is described in that institution's catalogue as “typical of the forms popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, indicating that North Carolina potteries were very much aware of current trends in the marketplace.”<br /><br />On A. R. Cole:<br />Barbara Stone Perry, ed. <i>North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of the Mint Museums</i>. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, a related model illustrated and described, page 60.
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&item=Two Glazed Earthenware Vases<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made at the A.R. Cole Pottery, Sanford, NC&made_year=circa 1950&dimensions=19.5 inches tall and 9 inches tall, respectively&marked=Each marked with the pottery's impressed mark: <i>A.R. COLE POTTERY/SANFORD, N.C.</i>&addendum=A related vase in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC. is described in that institution's catalogue as “typical of the forms popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, indicating that North Carolina potteries were very much aware of current trends in the marketplace.”<br /><br />On A. R. Cole:<br />Barbara Stone Perry, ed. <i>North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of the Mint Museums</i>. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, a related model illustrated and described, page 60.
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&item=A Glazed Earthenware Vase&materials=&made_place=Made at the A.R. Cole Pottery, Sanford, NC&made_year=circa 1950&dimensions=11 inches tall&marked=Marked with the pottery's impressed mark: <i>A.R. COLE POTTERY/SANFORD, N.C.</i>&addendum=A related vase in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC. is described in that institution's catalogue as “typical of the forms popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, indicating that North Carolina potteries were very much aware of current trends in the marketplace.”<br /><br />On A. R. Cole:<br />Barbara Stone Perry, ed. <i>North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of the Mint Museums</i>. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, a related model illustrated and described, page 60.
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&item=An Enamel on Copper Plate<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=United States&made_year=circa 1960&dimensions=8 inches diameter&marked=Signed: <i>Gerte Hacker</i>&addendum=Gerte Hacker of Shaker Heights, Ohio was praised in a 1957 article in <u>Ceramic Industry</u> for her “smooth progress from a small individual studio to personalized commercial production involving the assistance of others.” The article noted that “although the Hacker studio operates with a number of carefully trained assistants, no pieces are identical and every one has the Gerte Hacker touch and is signed by her.”
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&item=A Pair of Mercury Glass Lamps With Original Shades&materials=&made_place=Manufactured by Luxus (Sweden)&made_year=circa 1967&dimensions=23 inches to top of shade&marked=&addendum=Selected references on Helena Tynell: <br />Erik Zahle. <u>A Treasury of Scandinavian Design</u>. New York: Golden Press, 1961. <br /><br />Ray and Lee Grover. <u>Contemporary Art Glass</u>. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975. <br /><br /><u>The Modern Spirit - Glass From Finland</u>. Helsinki: The Finnish Glass Museum, 1985.
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&item=A Pair of Glazed Earthenware Lamps<br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=&made_place=Made at the A.R. Cole Pottery, Sanford, NC&made_year=1950&dimensions=17.5 inches high to top of base&marked=Marked with the pottery's impressed mark: <i>A.R. COLE POTTERY/SANFORD, N.C.</i>&addendum=A closely related vase in the collection of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC. is described in that institution's catalogue as “typical of the forms popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, indicating that North Carolina potteries were very much aware of current trends in the marketplace.”<br /><br />On A. R. Cole:<br />Barbara Stone Perry, ed. <i>North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of the Mint Museums</i>. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, a related model illustrated and described, page 60.
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&item=A Pair of Glazed Earthenware Lamps&materials=&made_place=Made at the A.R. Cole Pottery, Sanford, NC&made_year=circa 1950&dimensions=16 inches tall to top of ceramic base&marked=Each marked with the pottery's impressed mark: <i>A.R. COLE POTTERY/SANFORD, N.C.</i>&addendum=On A. R. Cole:<br />Barbara Stone Perry, ed. <i>North Carolina Pottery: the Collection of the Mint Museums</i>. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
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&materials=Walnut with caned seats and loose cushions&made_place=United States&made_year=circa 1955&dimensions=Height: 31.5 inches; width: 25 inches; depth: 23 inches&marked=Marked with the firm's characteristic metal plate inscribed: <i>Baker/Furniture</i>&addendum=Illustrated in: <u>Contemporary Furniture by Baker Furniture, Inc.</u> Holland, MI: Baker Furniture, Inc., n.d.
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&item=<i>Caravan</i> Vintage Cotton Velvet &materials=&made_place=Manufactured by Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc.&made_year=designed in 1962 &dimensions=Multiple yards available&marked=&addendum=
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&item=<i>Caravan</i> Vintage Cotton Velvet &materials=&made_place=Manufactured by Jack Lenor Larsen, Inc.&made_year=designed in 1962 &dimensions=Multiple yards available&marked=&addendum=
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&item=<i>Bouquet</i><br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=Oil on canvas&made_place=Painted in Rome&made_year=1959&dimensions=28 x 20 inches (sight)&marked=Signed: <i>Carlyle Brown, 59</i>; on verso: <i>Bouquet/Carlyle Brown/Roma/Italia/1959</i>&addendum=Provenance: Henry P. McIlhenny; Catherine Viviano Gallery.<br /><br />Carlyle Brown began his career as a protégé of Pavel Tchelitchew. His paintings were collected by influential style-setters such as Millicent Rogers, Van Day Truex, Baron Alexis de Rede, Antonio del Castillo and Edward James.<br />
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&item=<i>Forest Dream</i><br /><span class=sold>SOLD</span>&materials=Acrylic on board in original gilt wood frame&made_place=&made_year=1981&dimensions=37 x 37 inches&marked=Signed: <i>Fleur 81</i>; on verso: <i>Forest Dream</i>&addendum=)
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