#Decorative Arts

[nobrashfestivity]

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868 - 1928 CASKET About 1895

#Charles Rennie Mackintosh #CASKET #Decorative Arts #About 1895 #art nouveau

[nuveau-deco]

Belgian Art Nouveau Candelabrum by Sculptor Égide Rombaux and Silversmith François Hoosemans. Made in Brussels in 1900, materials are silver, ivory and alabaster. From The National Gallery of Australia, accession number: 88.1492

(Source: searchthecollection.nga.gov.au)

#candelabra #lighting design #sculpture #decorative arts #early 1900s #art nouveau #egide rombaux #belgian design #metal #ivory #stone #brown #yellow

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalCatDay 😻

Richard H. Recchia (American, 1885 – 1983) Persian Cat, 1931 Bronze, black patina, lost wax cast 49.53 x 26.03 x 30.48 cm (19 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 12 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1984.746

#animals in art #cat #cats in art #sculpture #bronze #metalwork #decorative arts #20th century art #1930s #modern art #American art #Museum of Fine Arts Boston #animal holiday #International Cat Day

[eyesaremosa1cs]

Philippe Wolfers -The Vampire (1899)

#the vampire #philippe wolfers #art nouveau #1899 #belt buckle #jewel #jewels #vampire #vampire art #bat wings #decorative arts #art #gothic #gothic aesthetic #goth aesthetic #goth #vampire aesthetic

[useless-catalanfacts]

18th century tiles from Arenys de Mar (Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia).

Source: Museu d'Arenys de Mar.

#ceramics #tiles #arts #crafts #18th century #decorative arts #baroque #folk art #arenys de mar #catalonia #europe #1700s #18th century art #aesthetic #arts and crafts #arts & crafts #ceramic #ceramic tiles

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Automaton in the form of a galley.

Date: 1626

Artist: Georg Burrer, (turning) (worked in Stuttgart 1598/99-1627), Georg Ernst, (turning work) (died after 1634), Christoph Schorkfel (mechanics)

Medium: Ivory, brass, linen, silk; Movement: iron

#17th century #art #history #history of art #decorative arts #17th century art #automaton #galley #1626

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Nature unveiling herself, Ernest Barrias, 1899, marble and onyx, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

#sculpture #decorative arts #allegory #art history #traditional art #official art #marble #onyx

[charlesreeza]

Art Nouveau furniture at the Musée D'Orsay in Paris

Photos by Charles Reeza

#antique furniture #art nouveau #decorative arts #woodwork #interior design #France #turn of the 20th century

[heaveninawildflower]

Maiolica vase with love motifs (Italy, 1470–90).

The scroll held by the bird scroll is inscribed ‘Non te posso lassar’ (I cannot leave you).

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

#love token #ceramics #Maiolica #15th century #decorative arts

[lionofchaeronea]

The Rose, Alfons Mucha, 1898

#art #art history #Alfons Mucha #Alphonse Mucha #lithography #Art Nouveau #Czech art #decorative arts #19th century art

[pointandshooter]

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

#national portrait gallery #ceiling #decorative arts #stained glass #photographers on tumblr

[nuveau-deco]

Octopus Chatelaine. Manufactured by William B. Kerr & Co. in Newark, New Jersey, ca. 1900. Medium is 800 silver, sterling silver. From the collection of Mary Nunn, exhibited by SFO Museum for their 'The Allure of Art Nouveau' exhibition, Feb 13, 2016–Aug 26, 2016.

(Source: sfomuseum.org)

#chatelaine #jewelry #decorative arts #early 1900s #american design #art nouveau #animal motif #octopus #marine life #silver #grey #b&w

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

165 & 349 “Porcupine”

Usually these tile pairs are duplicate compositions, but not these! 👀

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

#animals in art #20th century art #museum visit #porcupine #tilework #Henry Chapman Mercer #Mercer tiles #Moravian tiles #1900s #Pennsylvania art #American art #decorative arts #ceramics #mosaic #Arts and Crafts Movement #historical buildings #PA Capitol #PA history #Tiles on Tuesday

[fashionsfromhistory]

Shellwork Basket of Flowers

c.1840s

Probably New England Region, United States

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Number: 2010.598.1-3)

#shellwork #art #fashion history #decorative arts #1840s #victorian #united states #19th century #mfa boston

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Drinking vessel belonging to Basel’s shoemakers’ guild.

Place of origin: Basel, Switzerland

Date: 1661

Medium: Leather, mouthpiece made of gold-plated silver.

#17th century #art #history #decorative arts #history of art #17th century art #drinking vessel #basel #1661

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday with Henry P. Kirby

These charming sketches are the work of New York architect Henry P. Kirby (1853 - 1915). Architectural Compositions contains fifty loose plates printed on Whatman paper and housed in a portfolio. It was published in Boston in 1892 by Bates, Kimball & Guild, publishers of one of the United State’s leading architectural journals of that time, The Architectural Review (Boston), not to be confused with the longer running Architectural Review still in publication out of London. 

Kirby would have been working as a draftsman for George B. Post at the time of publication, for whom he later worked as lead designer before striking out on his own. Some of the subject matter also evokes Kirby’s time in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts after training with his father, also an architect. Per the subtitle, some of the sketches were “made in connection with actual projects,” while many were “the result of study during leisure moments.” I found Kirby’s eye for the human elements in his sketches particularly endearing, from the foreground figures to details on the buildings themselves, like open widows and overgrown foliage, or what looks like a duvet cover hanging out to dry (first image above). 

For any music buffs reading, the final sketch includes some bars of "Très-jolie" from the opéra comique smash hit La Fille de Madame Angot. 

Our copy of Architectural Compositions was gifted to UWM by Gustav A. Elgeti in 1966. 

Find more Decorative Sunday posts here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Architectural Compositions #Henry P. Kirby #Henry Petit & Green #Bates Kimball & Guild #The Architectural Review #George B. Post #École des Beaux-Arts #La Fille de Madame Angot #decorative plates #decorative arts #beaux-arts #architecture #architectural drawings #architectural plates #olivia