Decorative and Design

Simplicity, symmetry, and perfection are exemplified in Harrison McIntosh’s functional ceramics. With its simple even stripes, this cone-shaped striped stoneware vessel is congruent with the aesthetic of McIntosh’s vases, bowls, and jars. His work calls on simple shapes and geometric, rhythmic patterns that are both modern and reminiscent of ancient stoneware. Of McIntosh’s work, Hazel Bray, former curator of art at the Oakland Museum, wrote, “Over the years his work has accumulated a virtuosity that has become as rich as a Bach fugue in its variations upon a theme. Resisting superficial flirtations with novelty or partially realized expressions is a mark of his strength of personal conviction and maturity”. This piece represents one variation on Harrison McIntosh’s overarching theme of ancient yet modern symmetry.

Surf Board Style console table for Maison Jansen/Arrmet. the elliptical black glass top with clear band, over aluminum base. Arrmet label to one base.

Constellation occasional table with circular wood inlays to black lacquered top on molded walnut base.

The faux-bronze finished ceramic figure depicting art nouveau-style woman with butterfly wings, arms outstretched grasping upper wing panels, wings trimmed in gilt with inset glass medallions, on pedestal rock-form base.

Continental Marble Pedestal with square base.

A Continental Marble Pedestal with a twist carved columnar stem

Continental Gilt Metal Mounted Onyx Pedestal with columnar stems.

Continental Gilt Metal Mounted Onyx Pedestal with columnar stems.

Elegant table lamp designed by the Swiss-born American, more eminently known for his architectural work that helped birth modernism in America. His design here is a neat encompassing of the intelligent, often ingeniously experimental nature of production he sought — the sleek form of the lamp cut sharper by a removal of the base, and relying instead on a spherical metal counterbalance slung under the resting surface to remain upright. Nickel Silver over brass, single socket, paper shade

Jeweled Coalport Porcelain Covered Inkwell and Stand, England, late 19th century, with insert pot, globular pot and cover with simulated opal center bordered with rubies, pot, cover and stand allover gold ground with turquoise enameled jeweling, printed crown mark, saucer dia. 4 1/2, inkwell ht. 2 1/8 in. 3-4 jewels with pitting to pot, none missing.

Boch Freres Crackled Enamel vase, a Charles Catteau design, with multicolored flowers. Marked with the Boch Freres La Louviere" ink stamp logo, D 951 Ch. Catteau" in black and impressed with shape number 808. Height 7 7/8 inches.