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The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate Collection — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:413
Sale Title:The Karakter Collection of 20th Century Modern Design; NZ Ceramics; The Len Castle Estate CollectionLots with images:296
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:320
Date:25-Oct-2012
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Vintage Japanese machine robot, with visible gear mechanism, in original box.
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Set of ten vintage Danish beer glasses
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French 1950s desk lamp, with brass shade and lucite support. Height 36 cm
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French 1950s cabinet plate, by J Lurcat, decorated with an abstract surrealist creature on a yellow ground, signed and with factory marks to the base. Diameter 25 cm
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Villeroy and Boch, 1950's Lilo vase, painted with black vertical bands. Height 29 cm
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Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, pair of 1950's porcelain vases, of elongated ovoid shape
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Timo Sarpaneva for Ittala, 1950’s tapering conical blue glass vase, with clear casing, signed to the base. Height 40 cm
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Dino Martens for Arte Vetraria Muranese ( AVEM), bottle vase, clear cased with internal multi coloured filigrana ribbons and murrines. Height 35 cm
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Bohemian 1960’s glass bullet shaped vase, blue and white cased glass. Height 26 cm
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Ken Scott for Venini, glass fish, in green and white with aquamarine eyes. Circa 1955. Length 28 cm
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1980’s architectural lamp, with blue glaze. Height 36 cm
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Marianne de Tray, fish platter, together with a Rye pottery jug
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Danish 1950’s studio pottery stoneware vase, with cylindrical body and volcanic glaze. Height 30 cm
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Karjk Frank for Handeland, tapering rectangular shaped sommerso blue and green glass vase, [Small interior rim frit], h22 cm
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Riccardo Licata for Cenedese glass, impressive 1950’s aquarium glass block sculpture, with angel fish swimming amongst seaweed. Height 26 cm
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Venni, somerso glass vase, thick walled rectangular vase with purple glass interior cased in clear glass. Height 24 cm
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Scandinavian 1950’s basket weave monkey mother and baby figure. Height 80 cm
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Poole Pottery Freeform, 1950’s advertising ashet by A B Rhead. Length 35 cm
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Poole pottery freeform three piece cruet set
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Rye pottery bottle vase and bowl
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Eric Ravilious for Wedgwood, 1950’s Harvest Festival pattern dinner service
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West German studio pottery, 1950's floor vase, with green glaze and sgraffito vertical bands. Height 51 cm
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West German studio pottery, 1950’s floor vase, cylindrical with blue glaze. Height 40 cm
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West German Pottery vase, with a spider web design on a rich red ground. Height 29 cm
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Thomas Pottery (German), black and white porcelain op art vase. Height 24 cm
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Versace for Rosenthal, pair of decorative obelisks, decorated in the ‘Les Tresors de la Mer’ pattern. Height 38 cm
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American Westinghouse machine age teapot, blue glazed. Length 28 cm
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Michael Bang for Holmegaard, three green glass ovoid vases, of graduated size, each signed with initials.
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Per Lutken for Holmegaard, blue tinted ovoid glass vase, etched marks to the base. Height 27 cm
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Paolo Venini for Venini & Co., 1950’s cube form decanter, sapphire glass overlaid with a spiralling trial of blue and with conforming spherical stopper, original paper label affixed to the base. Height 17 cm
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Per Lutken for Holmegaard, carnaby blue glass vase, with white glass internal casing. Height 21 cm
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Jena Schott Bahaus design, wagenfeild glass teapot
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Huphrey Ikin, kauri dining table, with a rectangular top raised on tapering square section legs, 1,400 x 92 cm
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Garth Chester, a bent plywood Curvesse chair, in superb original condition
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Otto Brauer for Holmegaard, gulvase, oversized in cobalt blue with original label to the shoulder. Height 49.5 cm
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Otto Brauer for Holmegaard, gulvase, a rare oversized example in red with white internal casing. Height 51 cm
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Otto Brauer for Holmegaard, gulvase, a rare oversized example in white colour with clear glass casing, original label to the base. Height 51 cm
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Otto Brauer for Holmegaard, gulvase, in turquoise with white internal casing, original label to the base. Height 43 cm
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Aureliano Toso, italian 1950s glass vase, with red and aubergine tinting. Height 36 cm
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Seguso sommerso glass vase, with green and orange internal glass encased in clear glass, original label affixed to the base. Height 20 cm
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Timo Sarpaneva for Iittala, bark vase, with charcoal tinting. Height 22 cm
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Barovier and Toso, 1960’s glass pink and white lamp base, original label to the base. Height 30 cm
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Barovier and Toso, 1960’s glass bowl, with a blue and white spiral design. Diameter 20 cm
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Salvador Dali for Rosso Antico, two blue glass decanters. Height 34 cm
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An Austrian bronze pin dish model, in the form of a bodhisattva’s hand
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1950's Piero Fornasetti dish, decorated with a sun burst design. Diameter 12 cm
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Rosenthal Studio line Andy Warhol design glass dish, in original box
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A set of 5 Auckland Star adverting posters, relating to the moon landing
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A Danish teak spinning cheese platter
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Two Danish teak salad bowls
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A collection of eleven Nagel interlocking chromium plated candlesticks
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Joe Colombo, set of six highball smoke glasses, designed in 1964
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Joe Colombo, plastic space age lamp. Height 40 cm
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Pair of 1950’s curtains, together with Marimekko curtains and other 1960s fabric
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Christian Barman for HMV, multi finned chromium plated heater
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Marantz direct drive turntable, model 6300
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A 1960s Westclox starburst clock, with teak arms radiating from a polished brass face. Diameter 67 cm
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Hamish Keith, banana, screenprint, 1968, original National Art Gallery, Wellington, label affixed verso, 760 x 54 cm
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Frank Womble, modern Time – The Weekly Magazine, enamel on board, title inscribed and dated July 15-25, Barry Lett Gallery, Earth, 795 x 47 cm
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Eileen Mayo, gently Floating Forms, screenprint, title inscribed, signed and numbered 13/40, 550 x 34 cm
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Eileen Mayo, winter Sleep, screenprint, edition of 30, 520 x 32 cm
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Peter A. Read, nebula, gouache on paper, title inscribed verso, signed and dated 1959, 670 x 49.5 cm
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Denys Watkins, vacation, screenprint 10/30, title inscribed, signed and dated 1975, 400m x 31 cm
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Theo Janssen, figure 9, charcoal and pastel on paper, 580 x 40.5 cm
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Brian Dahlberg, northern Coastal Landscape, oil on board, signed, 595 x 90 cm
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Joan A’Beckett Lindsay, flock of Seagulls, oil on board, signed and dated, ‘77, 520 x 66 cm
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Paul Hartigan, “Two-Bob a.k.a. Puff Daddy”, ultrachrome print AP1, title inscribed, signed and dated 2006, 470 x 78 cm
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Mervyn Williams, chromatic Variations V, screenprint 2/7, title inscribed, signed and dated '69, 490 x 74 cm
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Mervyn Williams, midas MK 1, screenprint 11/50, title inscribed, signed and dated ‘67, 520 x 43 cm
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Ted Dutch, the Red Machine, lithograph 27/48, signed and dated 1963, 410 x 47.5 cm
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Alan S. Paterson, untitled – ‘Picasso’ Form Paints Nude, ink on paper, signed, 270 x 26 cm
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Paul Hartigan, “Yella Fella”, screenprint, artist’s proof, title inscribed, signed and dated 2006, 410 x 28.5 cm
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Roy Cowan, natural Meets Urban, lithograph, 370 x 53 cm
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John Tunnard, holiday, lithograph, signed and dated 47, 410 x 68 cm
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We Sell Crystal, advertising sign, enamel on tin, 455 x 60 cm
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Sheridan, untitled – Desert Water Carriers, mixed media on board, 460 x 46 cm
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J.B. Thierry, charmille, fabric print 129/200, 670 x 113 cm
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1960s Travel Poster, a moment while we change… (Teal becomes Air New Zealand 1965), black and white travel poster featuring Miss New Zealand Lyndal Cruikshank, 650 x 44 cm
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1957 Travel Poster, africa fly there by B.O.A.C, artwork by Dick Negus and Philip Sharland, colour screenprint printed in Great Britain, 1020 x 63 cm
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1956/57 Travel Poster, japan Qantas (earlier version depicting Constellation), artwork by Harry Rogers, colour screenprint printed in Australia by Posters Pty Ltd, 995 x 73.5 cm
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1960s Travel Poster, South Africa, Fly there by Qantas (Lion), photogravure printed by South African Tourist Corporation – Cape Times Ltd, 1020 x 63.5 cm
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1960s Travel Poster, fiji Hub of the South Pacific, colour screenprint, artist and printer unknown, 1010 x 63 cm
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1960s Travel Poster, tEAL Fly Wellington-Sydney Direct, colour process lithograph, artist and printer unknown, 990 x 62.5 cm
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1950s Travel Poster, tahiti Fly Teal, artwork by Arthur Thompson, colour process lithograph, printer unknown, 980 x 63 cm
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1960s Travel Poster, tahiti Air New Zealand, colour process lithograph, artist and printer unknown, 980 x 63 cm
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Len Castle, an early dish, with slip decoration depicting a crab on a blue glazed ground, circa 1951. a dish decorated with a similar design with a yellow glaze is illustrated in Len Castle Potter, Ron Sang and Len Castle. Published 2002 by Sang Architects and Company. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Len Castle, an early salt shaker manganese slip with salt glaze, fired at the Crum Brick and Tile Works, New Lynn. (Chipped to the top section), illustrated: Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance Ceramics 1948-2008 Lopdell House Gallery 2008, p. 124. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection
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Len Castle, an important early earthenware vase, matt wood ash glaze. Circa1954, impressed initials to the base, made and fired at 52 Westmere Crescent, Auckland. fired in a single chamber down-draught firebrick kiln fuelled by atomised diesel oil. illustrated: Len Castle Potter, p.21. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 32 cm
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Len Castle, an important early salt glaze vase, with incised decoration. Circa 1952, impressed initials to the base, fired at the Crum Brick and Tile Works in New Lynn. illustrated: Len Castle Potter, p.13. Provenance. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 13 cm
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Len Castle, early stoneware vase, bottle shape with salt glaze with glaze streak to the shoulder section. Fired at the Crum Brick and Tile Works in New Lynn. The streak on the shoulder of the vase is caused by molten salt glaze dripping from the arch of the kiln, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 30 cm
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Len Castle, early stoneware vase, ovoid shape, salt glazed, ribbed to the lower section and with incised decoration to the shoulder. Fired at the Crum Brick and Tile Works in New Lynn, unmarked but original Castle family labels to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 18 cm
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Len Castle, an early stoneware salt glazed lidded dish, with lug handles to the shoulder and glaze splash to the lid. Circa 1952, early impressed Castle mark to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 17 cm
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Len Castle, crater Lake bowl, in matt grey stained earthenware with turquoise alkaline glazed well and sculptured cavetto, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 53 cm
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Len Castle, crater Lake bowl, in matt grey stained earthenware with turquoise alkaline glazed well and sculptured cavetto, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 53 cm
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Len Castle, cylindrical vase, with incised concentric bands and ash over iron glaze, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 29 cm
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Len Castle, cylindrical vase, with incised concentric bands and ash over iron glaze, impressed initials. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Height 26 cm
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Len Castle, fossil, ovoid form in earthenware, circa 2006, impressed initials to the base. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 11 cm
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Len Castle, squat stoneware jug, tenmoku underglaze with talc overglaze, impressed initials, made and fired at Tawini Road. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 18 cm. Height 10 cm
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Len Castle, hanging earthenware vase, decorated with incised concentric bands and pierced at the rim for suspension, impressed initials, made and fired at Tawini Road. illustrated: Len Castle Potter, p.34. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 17 cm. Height 20 cm
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Len Castle, large circular stoneware bowl, tenmoku and jun type glaze to the exterior with jun and white feldspathic glaze to the well, impressed initials, made and fired at Paturoa Road. Provenance: From the Neil and Fay Castle Collection. Diameter 31 cm
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