Decorative and Design

Overall good condition with a couple of chips to eyebrows. Currently runs after winding. Left eye tells the hours and right eye tells the minutes. Works with various marks. Back impressed Germany.

The Duke dog's head electric rolling eye clock, Chicago, IL, wood composite, glass, applied manufacturer's plate, 5 3/8"w x 4 1/8"d x 6 3/4"h

Teco, or the Terra Cotta Tile & Ceramic Company, founded by William Day Gates in 1881, were the first major manufacturer of architecturally-focused terra cotta — their practical lines of tile, brick, chimney and urn gradually complemented by a burgeoning set of art pottery that carries similar ideals and methodology. Overall form is presented in a simple, reduced palette of shape, the large bulk designed by Gates or the school of Prairie School Chicago architects following in the wake of Louis Sullivan — including William James Dodd and the eminent Frank Lloyd Wright. The pieces aimed to convey a decorative purpose through the merging and flattening of geometric and organic structures in a naturalistic fashion, and the industrial process of their construction meant an increased affordability. The micro-crystalline green glaze has a wispy, crisp silvered tonality, its unique characteristic developed by Gates over 13 years, and is generally applied on shades of black overglaze to add understated depth.

Ron Arad for Moroso

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A similar, larger, example is in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

Engine-turned black center bordered with yellow, applied white foliate borders and with central ribbon festoons.

Five Wedgwood Tricolor Jasper Items, England, 19th century, a cylindrical light blue dip coffee can with green medallions and applied white relief of classical subjects, portraits, fruiting festoons, and ram's heads, ht. 2 5/8; and four solid light blue with lilac medallions and applied white relief, a cylindrical coffee can with portraits, ht. 2, and three with classical subjects, fruiting festoons, and ram's heads: a single candlestick, ht. 5 1/4, and a pair of cylindrical spill vases, ht. 3 in.; impressed marks. Provenance: Property of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Sold to benefit the acquisition fund. Coffee can with portraits: Surface stained; bottom scroll end of handle restored. All else in very good condition throughout.

Depicting a partially nude woman, with a wall of penis trophies behind her, marked 15Kahmen. Runs when wound, automation works, unsure of accuracy of time. Trophy example with a spotty patina, tickler example with a few nicks and scratches to mounts. Light shelf wear. Item 251: erotic ball clock Arabic numbers, wound and set by lever at top, painted face, woman with penis trophies, one trophy has erotic animation that is automatic and continuous after winding, face signed, "A..."(?), viewable works, front and back open at notches, works engraved, "18 K Amhen 2-66/ 385522" provenance: Father Time Antiques, Chicago, IL, $1,375

Tubular with cut outs. Chrome plated with white enamel