City-Antik Decorative Objects

Excellent original Viennese Art Nouveau centerpiece around 1900: A wide, round, trumpet-shaped silver pedestal, curved at the bottom, tapering upwards, on four lion's paw feet with f...

The girl in a white dress and with a blue bow in her long hair bends over the wicker doll's pram and places the doll into the deep pillow. Modeling and painting of the finest quality...

Boy in a white shirt with a newspaper cap riding on a wooden horse with wheels. Modeling and painting of the finest quality, excellent lifelike and loving details. Modeller: JULIUS ...

Rare and delicate Goldscheider Vienna ceramic figurine of the 1930s: Depiction of a standing, elegant lady in a long, red, checkered dress with tiered flounces, matching hat and red ...

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau Glass Vase: Mould blown glass on a flat stand, gently widening conically and forming a steep shoulder, slight constriction to a wide opening with a ground...

Large funnel vase with three-sided wall on a round stand offset by a nodus, colourless glass with white and thread-like yellow powder meltings and meadow-green meltings in the lower ...

Excellent fire-gilded Empire bronze mantel clock: structure in the form of a rectangular, stepped pedestal that tapers at the front corners, on four spindle feet, with relief ornamen...

Excellent Meissen porcelain figure: Young gentleman in elaborate rococo clothing of the upper classes: noble white frock coat with golden hems, gold and flower embroidered vest and sleeve cuffs, large black bow on the wig hair, sitting at a magnificent desk with curved...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

In reference to the remarkaple marble group of three larger-than-life figures, known as ‘The Rape of the Sabine Women’, which is located under the right arcade of the Loggia dei Lanz...

A dancer in Venetian costume striding forward: a black, tightly laced corset with a wide peplum, in which she has tucked a purple lace shawl that she holds to one side with an outstr...

A young woman in a long dress with short sleeves, softly enveloping her body, with a scarf covering her hair and falling well over her face to protect her from the burning sun, walking across the field at a leisurely pace, holding out her apron with the seeds spread out in front of her with her left hand and making a sweeping gesture with her right. On a narrow, elongated natural plinth with rounded corners, with the artist's signature ‘Schork 99’ incised on the side, as well as the Goldscheider manufactory's pressed stamp, pressed model number and incised monogram ‘AH’ on the back behind the figure. This motif is particularly well known in France, where it adorned all French franc coins and postage stamps for many years and was continued in a stylised form on all cent coins of the euro after 2001. Louis Oscar Roty (1846 - 1911) This sower is very familiar to the French: she was depicted on the fifty-centime coin and on the one-, two- and five-franc coins until 2001, when a stylised version of her appeared on the ten-, twenty- and fifty-centime coins of the euro. The figure dates back to 1887, when Roty designed a prize medal for the Ministry of Agriculture, a project that was not pursued. When the Minister of Finance commissioned new coins in 1896, Roty was among the selected artists. He drew on the Sower of 1887, but transformed his robust farmer into a slender Marianne, who wore the Phrygian cap of freedom. The traditional profile of the Republic was abandoned in favour of a more active, standing figure. This effigy was criticised, but generally very well received: ‘The seeds she generously throws into the earth are the countless ideas that may one day germinate and flourish when we are no longer here’ (La Liberté, 8 October 1898). The gesture is more symbolic than realistic – we do not sow against the wind, which nevertheless makes the hair behind the sower flutter – but it makes the composition more dynamic. Originally, ‘The Sower’ was used on the fifty-centime to two-franc coins introduced in 1897 and 1898, before appearing on postage stamps in 1903. It is thus the most widely circulated work of art in France. Although not included in the Musée d'Orsay's medal collection, this wax drawing on slate, typical of the technique of a medallist, is one of the most beautiful pieces and demonstrates the virtuosity of Roty. (Musée d'Orsay, The Collections) Design by HANS SCHORK...

Delicate Goldscheider Art Déco Ceramic Figurine of the late 1930s: Gracefully posing dancer in dark red costume: polka-dot bustier and short skirt at the front with long, wide, slit ...

Blond boy with woollen hat and mittens, blue ski trousers, yellow jumper and green scarf, cheerfully striding along with skis shouldered and hand casually tucked into his trousers. B...

A very rare Viennese Art Déco ceramic figure: Japanese girl with a flower-adorned page-boy hairstyle standing, wearing only an orange-red cloth draped around her hips, holding a cor...

Excellent and rare Meissen porcelain genre group: Elegantly dressed Rococo couple in the shade of a group of trees: a young lady sitting at the feet of her beau, leaning back against...

Representation of a pretty young lady in a softly falling dress, caressing her body as she stretches backwards, lying on a bearskin-covered divan. When the hinged belt is opened, the...

Depiction of a seated, laughing female Buddha figure from a series of folk types. Full-figured body with the hair tied back tightly and the robe tightly fitting the body with wide sl...

Exquisite Large Meissen Art Nouveau Porcelain Group: Representation of a mounted warrior with a painted face, wearing only a small loincloth and moccasins on his feet, and crowned wi...

Very Rare Goldscheider Vienna Figurine of the 1920s: Standing pierrette leaned forward and holding her hands together behind her back, in a white costume with a multi-layered, pine-c...

Gracefully posing dancer in a predominantly red costume: bustier and floor-length, wide, high-slit skirt with butterfly-wing-like decoration in blue and yellow, holding it up with ou...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

Finest Bohemian Art Nouveau glass vase in the form of a blown, baluster-shaped body with a flared rim. Silver mounting in the form of chased flowers, enclosing the body of the vase l...

Very large double snake handle vase in baluster form on a mounted funnel-shaped stand, handles in the form of coiled snake pairs raised on the side, white and cobalt blue base, fine ...

Exquisite large and rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group: Triton adorned with water lily wreath on his head, half man, half fish with scaled legs leaning against a high wave and ...

Solitary vase in the shape of a drop: bulbous body on a round, stepped base, narrowing as it rises and widening again to a bulging expansion to form a long, slender neck, widening ag...

Round silver-plated vessel on a flat stand, slightly outward-curving wall with openwork ivy leaf decoration, raised and curled tendrils on the sides, filled with ivy, forming the han...

Finest Meissen Porcelain Figurine: Dancer balancing on her toes, turning her head to the right and bringing her right hand indecisively to her chin, while with her left hand she perf...

Finest Meissen Porcelain Figurine: Dancer balancing on the ball of her left foot, lifting her right leg slightly forward with her foot extended downward, leaning her head to the righ...

Exceptional Viennese Ceramic Art from the 1930s: Two graceful dancers in long, deeply cut and high slit rose colored dresses with blue floral decorations, facing each other with thei...

Fire-gilded bronze table clock: a childlike bacchanal seated on a wine barrel under an arched vine arbour, holding grapes and a wine glass in his hands, on an oval base with an appli...

Complete Vienna clock on six stocky ball feet made of alabaster, architecturally structured wooden case with fruitwood veneers in the shape of a portal, steps in front flanked by two...

A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art: Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed, especially in Nancy. Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: Circa 1905 Dimensions: Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in Bibliography: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères Cie, Verreries de Nancy Condition: Very good The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons. About the design: The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy. Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass. To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition. The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...

Exceptional Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Depiction of a standing lady proudly looking to the side in oriental garb, wrapped in a large blue-green cloth reachin...

Exquisite porcelain figurine of the 1930: Aparte dancer in a tight-fitting red costume with short trouser legs and ruff, gymnastic shoes on her feet, balancing on the ball of her rig...

Rare Goldscheider Art Déco figurine of around 1930: Dancer with brown hair pinned up at the nape of her neck in a dress flared like a fan with flounces and floral decoration, leaning...

A pair of tall festive silver candelabra on a stepped funnel-shaped stand, based on four lion feet with volute and foliate decoration, radial pleated decoration to the lower rim, the fluting and cone of the foot of plain design with two applied oval panels to the front and back, framed by elaborate volute and floral decoration, on a round, domed disc, in the centre a fully sculpted caryatid in an ancient Greek dress...

Diamond-shaped silver-plated vessel standing on four cantilevered feet, slightly flared body with openwork ivy leaf decoration playing around the heart-shaped cartouches set centrall...

Excellent Goldscheider ceramic figurine of the late 1930s: Young elegant lady in an off-the-shoulder top of black lace and a long skirt of red lace swinging up in waves at the back, ...

Rare Goldscheider Ceramic Figurine Group: Boy in a sailor suit with shorts, long-sleeved top and sailor hat, carrying a school bag on his back, leading a smaller girl in a short, red...

Elegant, festive silver vessel with a wide oval body, naturalistically domed, the lower section curved and overlapping, with four protruding bars forming feet resting on the base and...

Excellent Meissen porcelain sculpture: Very elaborate and lovingly designed group of figures: two young women with artfully pinned-up hair and wrapped in cloths tied around their loi...

A graceful dancer in a long, low-cut, high-slit red dress with an all-over floral pattern, her head tilted to the right, looking down, her left hand placing a downward-facing bouquet of roses on her chest and posing with her upper body tilted back, holding the end of her skirt with her outstretched right hand, in front of her on the floor a fallen rose that has come loose from the bunch. On a black, flat oval base, artist's signature ‘Dakon’ on the underside. Compare model 7991 Twin Dancers The 'Dolly Sisters' Rosie Dolly (1892 - 1970) and Jenny Dolly (1892 - 1941), known professionally as (the) Dolly Sisters, were Hungarian-American identical twin...

Finest Viennese Enamel Work from around 1870: Silver vessel on an oval plan, with a large, offset, domed foot, baluster-shaped body with a large, broad spout, on the back a siren hol...

Simple elegance with that certain something: Two six-flame candleholders on a round, smooth base with fluted stepped rim, trumpet-shaped raised shaft, chalice forming after constrict...

Elegant Art Nouveau jardinière on four high legs, slender elongated shape with rounded ends, the delicate latticework on the wall as the only typical ornament, as Josef Hoffmann like...

Excellent and rare Art Nouveau ceramic piece from a series of the four seasons: Naked putto in a wide striding position, his blond head tilted to the left and holding a cascade of fl...

Excellent and rare Art Nouveau ceramic piece from a series of the four seasons: Naked putto in a wide striding position, his blond head tilted to the right and holding a cascade of ...

Two festive Biedermeier silver candleholders on a four-pass, cambered stand with curved rim, chased and chiselled rose decoration between raised folds on the foot and baluster-shaped...

Rare Goldscheider Vienna ceramic figurine of the 1920s: Pierrette with a pageboy head in a colourful costume with a multi-layered balloon skirt reminiscent of a pine cone, standing b...

Two festive Biedermeier silver candlesticks on a four-pass, cambered stand with a curved and pointed rim, rose decoration in relief and chased between narrow folds on the foot and ba...

Elegant, festive silver vessel with a wide oval vertical wall standing on four feet attached to the lower rim, central cartouches on the front and back, supported by a surrounding, relief and openwork flower and leaf interlacing, slightly curved upper edge, two handles attached to the sides in the form of wavy ribbons pulled...

Rare Goldscheider Art Déco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Depiction of a young vaudeville dancer posing in a short, low-cut, backless, light pink dress with ruffled flounces and a bow...

Pair of delicate diamond-shaped silver vessels on four rocaille feet, vertical walls chiselled and decorated with rocailles and floral elements, irregular upper edge with raised roca...

Elegant silver vessel over a boat-shaped ground plan standing on four pilaster feet with crushed spheres at the ends, vertical wall with regular openwork decoration in the form of rh...

Very exceptional decorated Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Depiction of a standing lady in oriental garb, proudly looking to the side, wrapped in a large blue-gre...

Rare Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Depiction of a young vaudeville dancer posing in a short, low-cut, backless, blue dress with ruffled flounces and a bow, hold...

Rare Art Déco Goldscheider Art Ceramic Figurine around 1930. Zerline Balten, a Viennese dancer and actress, is depicted accompanying herself in her 'fantasy dance' on a banjo. The yo...

Two graceful dancers in long, low-cut and high-slit red dresses with large floral decorations, posing facing each other with their upper bodies tilted backwards and holding the ends ...

Young revue dancer with pageboy hairstyle, dressed in one-piece, light green transparent costume with short pants and tight-fitting, long-sleeved top with large collar standing up ba...