AMERICAN ART DECO
A charming American Art Deco 3 light chandelier, comes with original ceiling canopy, 4ft + solid brass chain and the most amazing milk glass shade I’ve seen in a while. Rewired and ready to hang in your place.
Item No. E5553
Dimensions: 16″ diameter x 12″ tall / 5ft tall including chain approx.
SOLD
504.581.3733 / t
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#Caturday:
Walter von Nessen (American, born Germany, 1889-1943)
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc., Waterbury, CT
Cat Bookends, 1930-5
Copper-plated alloy, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (18.8 x 11.5 x 6.4 cm)
Brooklyn Museum 1994.156.4,5:
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2265
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2285
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Joseph Urban (1872-1933), ''Poppyland'' by George Gershwin, 1920
Source
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Black Glass Dinner Set with Contrasting Green Overlay. Manufactured by Steuben Glass Works ca. 1929-1930.
(Source: collection.cooperhewitt.org)
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The Ballad of the Brown Girl
The Ballad of the Brown Girl was Harlem Renaissance writer Countee Cullen's (1903-1946) first major poem, and this is the first edition of only 500 copies, published in New York and London by Harper & Brothers in 1927, with illustrations and page decorations by the unrelated Art Deco artist Charles Cullen (1887-?). Brown Girl is Countee Cullen's revision of a 17th-century English ballad based on a folk tale featuring two women with different color hair. Cullen's revision alters the descriptions to suggest they are of different races, establishing tensions between romance, segregation, and social hierarchy.
The white Charles Cullen grew up in Brooklyn and was living and working in Manhattan when he met the Black Countee Cullen around 1926 and illustrated four books for the writer: Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927), an illustrated second edition of Color (1928), and The Black Christ and Other Poems (1929). It seems a significant coincidence that the two would share a last name, but the stars seem to have been aligned. For example, Countee Cullen's birth name was Countee LeRoy Porter and Charles Cullen was born in LeRoy, New York. Coincidence? We don't think so.
View another work by Countee Cullen.
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1. Dedham Pottery (Dedham, MA, 1896-1943)
Moth Plate, 1931
Glazed earthenware
2. René Lalique (French, 1860-1945)
Papillons Vaporizer, early 20th c.
Pressed glass & brass
Both on display at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, MD, USA)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Ceiling Light from the Francis W. Little House, Peoria, Illinois
Executed circa 1902-1903.
Executed by the Linden Glass Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Iridized and opalescent glass, 'colonial' brass-plated came, patinated bronze.
29½ in. (74.9 cm.) drop.
Lantern: 8½ x 16⅛ x 16⅛ in. (21.6 x 40.9 x 40.9 cm.).
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Martin Marootian Still Life Linocut, 1936.
(via museumcoin)
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An American Standard bathroom.
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