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Decorative Arts & Design — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:504
Sale Title:Decorative Arts & DesignLots with images:89
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:293
Date:8-Dec-2011
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Collette Gueden, Les Femmes en jaune bonnet (lady in yellow bonnet). Biscuit and glazed earthenware, minor restoration to yellow bonnet. Height 48 cm
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Collette Gueden, French 1950’s Primavera cabinet plate, painted with a still life scene, signed verso. Diameter 24 cm
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M H Designs, French Primavera 1950’s porcelain cabinet plate, hand painted with street scene of a cafe and tobacconist, signed with initials. Diameter 24 cm
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Bob Roukema for Jon Jansen, a rare wingback 1950's armchair, raised on four tapering cylindrical legs with original red and black mosaic patterned upholstery. Provenance: Purchased directly from the Jon Jansen furniture store by the current owner in the 1950's.
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Bob Roukema for Jon Jansen, a rare dining room suite with solid mahogany quatrefoil top raised on splayed tapering cylindrical legs, complete with six ergonomically designed chairs raised on legs matching the table. This is the only known surviving example of this style of table and six chairs. Provenance: Historically purchased from Jon Jansen by the owners of a 1950’s architecturally designed home in Misson Bay, Auckland.
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Bob Roukema for Jon Jansen, armchair with original webbed seat and back. a similar example illustrated in at home: a century of New Zealand design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins with an original photograph showing a Jansen shop display P. 148
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Ernst Plischke pair of rare and important architecturally designed chairs and matching coffee table, the chairs constructed from New Zealand pine with original hessian webbing and canvas backs, complete with original foam squabs, the matching coffee table with integral magazine rack, circa 1955. This is the only known pair of chairs and matching coffee table to be offered on the open market. Similar chairs are illustrated in several 1950's architectural publications and a similar example, made from New…
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Bob Roukema for Jon Jansen, armchair and rare matching ottoman upholstered in chocolate brown leather. See 1950s show magazine, Auckland city Art gallery and Around the home,32 page booklet, circa 1955 for similar examples.
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John Crichton, rare 1950’s adjustable height hanging lamp in spun aluminium and copper. Illustrated in several 1950s Crichton interiors.
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Jon Jansen (attributed), rare 1950's New Zealand -made cantilevered floor lamp in brass and steel with raffia shade.
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Jon Jansen, rare 1950’s teak desk with two frieze drawers raised on splayed tapering legs. Height 980, Length 900, width 53 cm
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New Zealand 1950’s minimalist design rectangular table in pine and tubular steel with matching chair. Table: Length 108.5 cm. Height 75.5 cm Illustrated in Home Magazine article showing furnishings of Group Architects. From the Robertson house in Glendowie.
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John Crichton, 1950's wrought iron standard lamp with original Crichton tapa shade.
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Jon Jansen, 1950’s oak glass top coffee table raised on four tapering legs. 62 x 108 cm. A similar example illustrated in At Home: A century of New Zealand design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins with an original photograph showing a Jansen shop display P.148
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New Zealand 1950’s cloud-form oak top coffee table supporting a conforming glass top, raised on tapering legs. Width 112 cm
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Jon Jansen, 1950’s oak glass top coffee table. 45 x 107 cm. A similar example illustrated in At Home: A century of New Zealand design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins with an original photograph showing a Jansen shop display P.148
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New Zealand 1950’s pair of triangulated side tables. Height 43 cm
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New Zealand 1950’s foot stool with original upholstery on tapering legs.
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New Zealand 1950’s armchair with curved upholstered seat supported on oak boomerang form legs.
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New Zealand 1930’s rimu, solid wood and ply office chair with swivelling and tilting mechanism.
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John Crichton, two 1950’s cane patio chairs on blackened steel rod bases.
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Italian 1950’s pottery vase, hand painted with Picasso-esque figures. Height 34 cm. Together with an Italian pottery ewer.
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Italian earthenware vase, hand painted with two Picasso-esque figures. Height 44 cm
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Richard Ginori, 1950’s ovoid vase, hand painted with abstracted spirals and drops in yellow and blue. Factory and American Retailers marks; Beth Weissman Co, New York, to the base. Height 334 cm
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Richard Ginori, 1950’s red glazed vase with moulded figural design. Height 23 cm
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Eva England for Pukeberg (Sweden), volcano vase of swollen ovoid shape in blue and clear glass. Height 42.5 cm
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Eva England, vase matching the previous lot but of smaller size. Height 22.5 cm
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Barovier and Toso, 1960’s cylindrical vase in banded red, green and blue glass. Height 24.5 cm
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Colin Melbourne for Beswick, stylised bison figure with hand painted abstract decoration, circa 1950's. Height 22.5 cm
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Colin Melbourne for Beswick, stylised cow hand painted in red and brown, circa 1950. Length 25 cm
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Wedgwood, Zodiac bull by Arnold Machin, decorated with signs of the zodiac. Length 40 cm. Similar example held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Ettore Sottsass for Artimede, Milano, Pausania architectural desk lamp, circa 1970.
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Archimede Seguso, glass vase of ovoid shape and green glass ribs issuing from the base. Small abrasion to the base. Height 28 cm
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Kosta Boda Ventana, glass bowl by Mona Morales-Schildt, clear cased with blue tinting and optical cutting, signed to the base. Diameter 20 cm
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Kosta Boda Ventana, glass dish by Mona Morales-Schildt, signed to the base. Diameter 24 cm
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Italian 1960’s mould blown glass vase. Height 50 cm
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Italian 1960’s mould blown yellow glass vase. Height 480m
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German Fraureuth Kuntsabteilung figure group modelled as Bacchanalian puttii riding a tiger. Width 33 cm
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Scandinavian green tinted art glass vase. Width 225 cm
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Flygsfors, coquille art glass dish, blue with clear glass casing, signed and dated ’57 to the base.
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Italian art glass vase, tinted blue and yellow with clear glass lid and spire stopper. Height 35 cm
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Hutschrenreuther, porcelain tray transfer printed in the Pompeii pattern. Length 33 cm
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Italian 1950’s dish hand painted with a leaf design, signed and dated 14.1.55. Length 32 cm
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Italian blue cased glass vase with white interior, trumpet shaped, raised from a circular foot. Height 222 cm
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Kosta Boda, blue glass vase with clear glass casing. Height 18 cm
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Tapio Wirkkala for Ittala, glass vase decorated with wheel cut lines. Height 12 cm
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Timo Sarpaneva for Ittala, four festive glass candlesticks of graduated size with bark patterned surface.
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Italian art glass vase, triangulated form with red tinted clear glass encasing blue glass to the centre. Width 29 cm
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Four assorted art glass vases.
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Italian yellow art glass vase of graduated tapering cylindrical shape. Height 20 cm
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Italian art glass vase of tapering cylindrical shape with internal blue and clear glass casing.
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Per Lutken for Holmgaard, mould blown blue cased glass vase with white interior. Height 21 cm
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Royal Dux, two porcelain cat figures.
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Austrian Anzengruber, pair of 1950’s figural candlesticks, the figures polychrome painted and dressed in 18th century attire. ‘Anzengruber, handmade in Austria’ and original strikes to the base. Height 30 cm
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Austrian Anzengruber, pair of 1950's Folkloetanze (folk dancers) figural candlesticks, polychrome painted, each figure crouching on one leg with the other extended. 'Anzengruber, Handmade in Austria' and original factory strikes to the base. Height 25 cm
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Austrian Hagenauer, brass bottle opener modelled with an inebriated figure in high relief holding a bottle. 8 x 7 cm
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Italian Barovier and Tosso, mid century ribbed glass vase with applied leaf forms and gold inclusions.
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Italian Segusso, pair of Murano glass angel fish, red and purple tinted, clear glass cased with aventurine highlights.
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Italian Mazzega 1960’s cased white glass globe lamp. Diameter 18 cm
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1950’s Venini, glass bowl decorated with a blue and green swirling design. Diameter 20.5 cm
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Aarikka Finland, 1960’s hanging aluminium mobile sculpture with original box.
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Nils Thorensen for Copenhagan, Fajence slab vase decorated with an abstract design in pale blue. Height 30 cm
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Royal Copenhagen, four sided Fajence vase painted with an abstract floral design. Height 22 cm
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Royal Copenhagen, Fajence dish painted with nesting birds. Length 32 cm
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Royal Copenhagen, Fajence lidded box painted with abstract designs, Height 10 cm. Together with a bowl and square dish.
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Japanese stoneware 1950’s modernist vase with conical bowl supported on tapering stem with brown and yellow glaze. Height 30 cm
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Camping Toledo, 1950’s sculptured owl form jug with hand painted blister glazed jug.
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Swedish 1950’s Nutajarvi Nuttso vase of flared tapering form painted with leaf design and alternate repeating crimson bands. Height 13 cm
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Italian Pucci, 1950’s female figural jug. Height 23 cm
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German Thomas, 1950’s porcelain black and white pop art cylindrical vase. Height 24.5 cm
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Italian Fornasetti, 1950’s porcelain dish decorated with a sun motif within a gilded border. Diameter 13 cm
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Holmgaard Per Lutkin Carnaby, vase of red and white cased glass. Height 30 cm
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Whitefriars, 1930’s blue tinted glass vase with applied optical lozenge design. Height 19 cm.
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Italian Guido Gambone, 1950’s stoneware specimen vase. Height 13 cm
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Richard Ginori for Doccia, 1950’s lidded porcelain pill box enamelled and gilded with a campana urn to the lid. Diameter 5.6 cm
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Michael Graves for Alessi, three piece stainless steel tea set comprising teapot, milk jug and sugar basin.
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Italian 1950’s stoneware ewer with beck from spout, hand painted with a design of stylised birds. Height 21 cm
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Vicke Lindstrand for Kosta, 1950’s heavy glass bowl with blue tinting and optical cutting. Diameter 17 cm
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Italian Salviati, 1950’s glass figure of a priest. Height 15.5 cm
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Italian Bitossi, 1950’s stoneware vase of swollen cylindrical shape with impressed geometric motifs in blue and green glaze. Height 25.5 cm
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Vallauris, 1950’s vase with red lava glaze on a black and white mottled ground. Height 36 cm
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Italian 1950’s tin glazed terracotta vase, with polychrome painted abstract fish decoration. Height 26 cm
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Aureliano Toso for Murano, 1960’s stoppered bottle vase in swirling layered pink, white and blue clear cased glass with aventurine highlights. Height 39 cm
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Holmgaard, 1960’s gull vase in cased yellow and white glass. Height 37 cm
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Tapio Wirkkala, 1950’s Scandinavian glass vase of tapering flared conical shape decorated with intaglio concentric bands.
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1960’s pop art glass vase of tapering conical form, amber tinted with white and orange bands. Height 23.5 cm
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Flavio Polio for Suguso, sommerso, glass vase in green and amber, encased in clear glass with original label. Circa 1950’s. Height 22 cm
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Ercole Barovier, glass vase with purple open weave design alternating with aventurine highlights within a clear glass casing. Height 24.5 cm
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Paolo Venini, blue glass decanter, original label to the base. Height 17 cm
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Guido Gamboni, 1950’s stoneware quatrefoil dish hand painted with abstract hand motif in yellow on cream ground. Length 20 cm
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Italian 1960’s open decanter with an orange and amber glass aureliano toso design to the base. Height 30 cm. Made to commemorate a major solar eclipse in 1963
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Italian designed Ghost night light.
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Scandinavian gray cased smoky glass vase of ovoid shape with cylindrical neck and loop handles. Height 32 cm
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Italian 1950’s figure group, modelled as a young woman seated on tree stump comforting a deer. Together with a green glazed candelabra. Faults to both.
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Eero Aarnio, globe chair originally designed in1963-1965, moulded fibreglass with reinforced polyester seating section on a painted aluminium base with internal black fabric covering foam upholstery. Diameter 99 cm at opening. This vintage example was manufactured in Finland.
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Eero Aarnio, globe chair originally designed in 1963-1965, moulded fibreglass with reinforced polyester seating section on a painted aluminium base with internal black fabric covering foam upholstery. Diameter 99 cm at opening. This early example was manufactured under licence in Australia by McKay. Provenance: This example purchased privately from Ross Morrison and originally belonged to a Dunedin gentleman who held the New Zealand import licence for these chairs.
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Italian 1960's rare chain floor light with tubular soda glass shades, chromed steel links raised on a circular disc base. Height 125 cm
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Eero Saarinen for Knoll international, a good tulip pedestal dining suite, model 151, designed in 1955, comprising a marble topped table with eight matching chairs, each plastic coated with an aluminium base supporting a moulded fibreglass shell seat with original loose upholstered latex foam red cushions. Manufactured by Knoll international USA.
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Eero Saarinen, tulip table with white circular laminate top and four matching stools, each with plastic coated aluminium bases with original overstuffed latex foam yellow cushions. Manufactured by Knoll international USA. Table diameter 92 cm
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Gaetano Pesce for B and B Italia, Up chair, Numbers 5 and 6. Black stretch fabric over moulded polyurethane foam. An example of this chair is illustrated on the book cover of ‘1000 Chairs’ by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, published by Taschen, 2010.
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