Decorative and Design

Lavender Vase

Swid Powell Collection

Kottler’s philosophical combination of sacred and profane, utilising commercial pottery with decals as a vehicle for his art, grew in response to the Bay Area funk art movement and shares many of its ceramic-centric ideologies towards humour and a rejection of ‘traditional’ art principles. ‘The Last Supper Ghost’ is a perfect example of the simple and profound alternations Kottler tended to lean towards, the transformation of Jesus at the last supper into a white-sheeted ghost a vaguely childish reduction of the weight and shape of the original iconographic depiction, but with a remaining resonance.

Pair of "Tito Lucifer" andirons, France, des. 1986; Cast Iron; Both Stamped STARCK IN OWO. Note: Complete with OWO booklet, illustrating the andirons Light Wear and oxidation commensurate with age and use

Carved in oak, 19th c

Roycroft items began being produced in the late 19th-century in East Aurora, NY, the workshop and community forming around the entrepreneurial spirit of Elbert Hubbard, his theories around artistic upheaval and a gradual societal unshackling from boundaries imposed in the Victorian era having pushed him to invest in and establish an assortment of manufacturing space for craft works. Of the various forms of production that took place — printing, furniture making, leather working — the results of the metal workshop, with hammered copper in particular, have become highly sought after for their charm and cultivated beauty, the design and fabrication ushering in a stripped back and cleaner approach to form, part-influenced by various member’s exposure to European Secessionist and proto-Modernist movement. Middle orb and cross mark;

Each roundel mounted with Blue Jasper with applied white classical sacrifice subject, sight dia. 2 3/4; mounted to a brass-trimmed, aesthetic-style, ebonized door panel