Posts Tagged ‘Art Deco’

Venini Art Glass from Italy

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Venini art glass has been commanding high prices in some Eastern auction galleries. Art Deco items and those from the fifties are the most sought after. Venini is the best known manufacturer of fine Italian art glass. The company was founded in 1921 in the Italian glass [...]

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Opalescent Glass and Its Makers

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Opalescent glass is a generalized term for clear and semi-opaque pressed glass, cloudy, marbled, and sometimes accented with subtle coloring all combining to form a milky opalescence in the glass. Opalescent glass was first made in England in 1870, and became popular in America around the turn of the century. [...]

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Goldscheider Deco and Nouveau Figurines

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Goldscheider ceramics were made in Vienna from 1885 to 1938. The gaily painted female figurines from the 1920s that depict Hollywood actresses like Louise Brooks or exotic dancers like the Budapest-born Dolly Sisters are among the most recognized of the Goldscheider pieces. Shown in dance poses and skimpy costumes, these [...]

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Alcoa Aluminum Company’s Kromex Kitchenware

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Kromex aluminum kitchenware was made by Alcoa Aluminum Company. The Company created a vast number of kitchenware items, including canister sets, salt and pepper sets, coffee and tea services, drinking glasses, spice sets, trays of all sizes, ice buckets and cake savers. Kromex was produced beginning around 1957, [...]

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DISCOVERING FRANKART

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Highly collectible today, the Frankart metalware company creations play an important part in the history of modern art and design. Art Deco, or Modernism, was the forefront of Modern design, as we know it today. Frankart was active in the 1920’s through 1930’s. Ashtrays, lamps, clocks, vases, bookends, [...]

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