Vintage Modernist Art Deco Burl Bookends in good estate condition. There is light wear typically seen with vintage items. Each one measures 6 5/8″ high, 5 5/8″ wide and 4 3/4 deep. Please review the pictures because they are an integral part of the description. Track Page Views With. This item is in the category…
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White Marble Alabaster Pair Owl Bookends Art deco Rare Modernist Midmodern
So beautiful, and a truly rare find! A pair of white owl bookends with smooth modern art deco shapes. They look like marble but don’t feel quite as cold to the touch as marble usually does. Either way, these are showstoppers! Approx 7 1/2 by 4 x 2 1/2 & the eyes are glass amber…
Continue readingRare Vntg Streamline Modernist Deco Machine Age Chase Walter Von Nessen Bookends
A Von Nessen design prototype for Chase? Though unmarked, they are very similar in design and construction to the Chase Hoops & Balls bookends. Brass cylinder finials in place of spheres, heavy gauge copper & brass concentric rings. Each brass base varies slightly in size as the pictures show which again lends itself to a…
Continue readingRare Vntg Streamline Modernist Deco Machine Age Chase Walter Von Nessen Bookends
A Von Nessen design prototype for Chase? Though unmarked, they are very similar in design and construction to the Chase Hoops & Balls bookends. Brass cylinder finials in place of spheres, heavy gauge copper & brass concentric rings. Each brass base varies slightly in size as the pictures show which again lends itself to a…
Continue readingModernist Art Deco Shearwater Pottery Pelican Bookends Walter Inglis Anderson
Beautiful Shearwater Pottery (Ocean Springs, MS) 5.25 t. Pelican sculptures/bookends, a shape designed by Walter Inglis Anderson (one of the 3 founders of this studio in 1928). Possibly functional too, although you may have to add some kind of weight (such as rice kernels in a small baggie). Marked with the SP monogram and 18…
Continue readingRare Cowan Pottery Art Deco Modernist Gear or Cogwheel Bookends Black & Silver
This stellar set of bookends measure approximately 4.75 t. X 4.25″ x 4″ and are properly marked with the round die-impressed Cowan logo. Extraordinary Machine Age design that rarely surfaces on the market. Drexler Jacobson, who taught for many years at the Silvermine Guild in Connecticut. He was a member of the avant-garde, short-lived consortium…
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