Null Travel desk in light wood.

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Travel desk in light wood.

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Travel desk in light wood.

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Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Rectangular travel desk, in Boulle style, with compartments and drawers inside, externally finished in brass and precious woods, broken and missing parts.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Prof. Erich Heckel, "Der Spaziergang" Father in conversation with his son, in front of a landscape under a radiant sun, catalogue raisonné Dube 317, woodcut, signed and dated "Erich Heckel (19)20" in pencil below the image on the right, paper browned and slightly stained in the lower area, matted and framed behind glass, dimensions approx. 46 x 32 cm. Artist info: important German painter and graphic artist. Painter and graphic artist (1883 Döbeln - 1970 Radolfzell/Bodensee), studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Dresden from 1904, discontinued his studies in early 1906, worked (until 1907) in a Dresden architectural office and turned to painting and graphic art as an autodidact, 1905 together with Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl founded the artists' group "Brücke" in Dresden, 1907-10 study visits with Schmidt-Rottluff in Dangast, 1909 trip to Italy and studio community with Kirchner in Dresden, 1909-11 summer stays of the Brücke artists at the Moritzburg ponds, 1911 move to Berlin, here 1912 friendship with Lyonel Feininger, Franz Marc and August Macke, 1913 Dissolution of Die Brücke and first solo exhibition with Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin, discovered the small village of Osterholz in the Flensburg Fjord for himself in 1913 and spent the summer and autumn months here until 1943, 1914 with Heinrich Nauen in Dilborn and took part in the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne, 1915-18 military service as a medic, 1918 member of the "Arbeitsrat für Kunst" and member of the Nationalgalerie's acquisition commission, from 1920 regular study trips through Germany, southern France, Italy, England and the Alps, 1931 retrospective at the Kunsthütte Chemnitz, from 1937 exhibition ban and ostracised as "degenerate", at the picture burning on 20.3.In 1939, 1004 paintings and 3825 watercolours and prints by Erich Heckel were destroyed in the courtyard of the Berlin fire station, 1941-43 stay in Carinthia, 1944 destruction of the studio in Berlin by bombing and relocation to Hemmenhofen on Lake Constance, 1949-55 professor at the Karlsruhe Academy, participated in numerous exhibitions, including documenta 1 in Kassel in 1955, member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands and the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler and Internet.

Estim. 600 - 1 200 EUR

A FINE MAKUZU KOZAN STUDIO CELADON-GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘HO-O’ FLOWER VASE A FINE MAKUZU KOZAN STUDIO CELADON-GLAZED PORCELAIN ‘HO-O’ FLOWER VASE Studio of Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), sealed Makuzu Japan, 20 th century Thickly potted, the vessel in the form of a Chinese archaic ho-o bird, with its head rising from one end, its wings forming the sides, and its tail curling over the end. Covered in a rich celadon glaze, pooling elegantly in the recesses, and thinning along the edges. The base with the studio seal MAKUZU. LENGTH 21.4 cm Condition: Excellent condition. Provenance: Collection of James and Christine Heusinger. James and Christine Heusinger started collecting Japanese art in the late 1970s. James and Chirstine worked for a travel agency until James became a prominent carpenter, whose company renovated the office of US Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. His collection began with a modest piece by Seifu Yohei III, and expanded into over 100 pieces. They donated the majority of their pieces to the Cleveland Museum of Art, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo. With a wooden tomobako storage box inscribed in Japanese, ‘Celadon flower vase by Kozan.’ Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), also known as Miyagawa Kozan, was a potter who moved his ceramics studio from his hometown of Kyoto to the port city of Yokohama in 1870. His early works copying styles and forms derived from earlier Japanese and Chinese ceramics soon found favor with Western buyers and his business quickly expanded. Kozan’s work was also much admired within Japan and achieved special notoriety after the Meiji Emperor touched one of his vases at the First National Industrial Exhibition in 1877.

Estim. 800 - 1 600 EUR

A FINE INLAID WOOD YATATE (PORTABLE WRITING SET) A FINE INLAID WOOD YATATE (PORTABLE WRITING SET) Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Finely crafted to resemble a closed folding fan, the yatate sliding open horizontally to reveal the bronze sumitsubo (inkwell), fudezutsu (brush holder), and writing brush. The wood decorated to the top with takamaki-e, as well as various inlays of a wood and mother-of-pearl, to depict accoutrements of horseback-riding samurai including abumi, jingasa and a tsuba. LENGTH 20.9 cm Condition: Very good condition. The bristles of the brush lost. Provenance: Collection of James and Christine Heusinger. Old label to the back, ‘The Jade Dragon, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 14603’. James and Christine Heusinger started collecting Japanese art in the late 1970s. James and Chirstine worked for a travel agency until James became a prominent carpenter, whose company renovated the office of US Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. His collection began with a modest piece by Seifu Yohei III, and expanded into over 100 pieces. They donated the majority of their pieces to the Cleveland Museum of Art, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Oishei Children’s Hospital in Buffalo.

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