Antique-Amphora Art Nouveau Woman Bust Signed & Dated
STUNNING V.RARE! BUST HALLMARKED & SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
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Antique-Amphora Art Nouveau Woman Bust Signed & Dated STUNNING!!!!!VERY RARE! CIRCA 1905 *AMPHORA Art Nouveau Woman Bust Signed & Dated*,This is truly a remarkable bust by AMPHORA,EXTREMELLY WELL HALLMARKED ON THE BOTTOM PLUS ARTIST SIGNED AND A DATE THAT SEEMS TO BE *1905*.This bust is a consigment piece from a very important Estate in Palm Beach Florida.*AMPHORA* original Art-Nouveau women busts are probably the best bust made in porcelain highly sought by collectors.PLease find below history of *AMPHORA*and the comments about their famous *Art-Nouveau women busts*.This piece will make a collector very happy!!. ****WE WILL STUDY AND RESPOND TO ALL OFFERS TO BUY THIS UNBELIVABLE BUST***** HISTORY OF TEPLITZ AMPHORA Much of the collector interest in European ceramics from the early 20th century has been focused on western European countries, but a major art pottery movement reflecting the design elements of the Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Secession periods during which it arose was burgeoning in what was then known as Bohemia. Teplitz is located in the Czech Republic today, but at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. You will also see the town Turn in the markings, which no longer exists, but was basically a suburb of Teplitz. Teplitz was a ceramic industry center in Austria because of the rich deposits of Kaolin in the river on which it rests. Kaolin was the best keep secret in China, the secret ingredient of porcelain which took 300 years of trial and error for the European chemists to discover. The Teplitz ceramics industry was widely recognized for many technical advents, most importantly the creation of a soft paste porcelain. Traditionally, Amphora referred to large Greek storage vessels with an oval body, usually tapering toward the base, and with two handles extending from just below the lip to the shoulder. However, the area of central Europe now part of Austria and Czechoslovakia produced a very fine art pottery also known as Amphora from the late 19th century until the early 20th century. Amphora employed very innovative shapes including figurals especially during the Art Nouveau period when their female busts were sometimes monumental and reflected a level of detail very seldom seen in porcelain manufacturing. Amphora works also incorporated animals into their designs including serpents, parrots, and dragons, and other styles were unique to the Amphora manufacturers such as the "drop edge candle vase". Amphora designs began with a drawing or watercolor which captured the desired finish look of the piece, and once the design committee had given approval to the design it was given a style number which was subsequently impressed or inscribed on the bottom of Amphora works. Many Amphora designs were produced in a variety of sizes, with the larger and more substantial being more complex to make and commanding higher prices originally. As such, the larger size pieces such as female busts are less common since they were less affordable during their original production, so they are consequently rarer and more desirable for collectors. Generally recognized as the first and arguably the best of the Amphora manufacturers, Reissner, Stellmacher & Kessel was established in the Turn-Teplitz region of Bohemia in 1892. Partners Hans and Carl Reissner, Edward Stellmacher, and Rudolf Kessel after Kessel took over the remaining factories of Alfred Stellmacher. This area of central Europe was close to Dresden, Germany and benefited from the long tradition of ceramics manufacturing among the peoples of eastern Germany. The ceramics Reissner and his 2 partners produced was known for its unique styles and the interesting glazes they used to create what became known as "Amphora" pottery or simply "Teplitz." Reissner, Stellmacher & Kessel (R. St. K.) displayed their work in America for the first time at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair where they were awarded a best in show prize and first attracted the attention of the American buying public. In 1897, R. St. K. produced art pottery vases in the style of Grueby and Rookwood, but with more elaborate and Art Nouveau and Jugendstil influenced designs. The partners Reissner, Stellmacher, and Kessel enjoyed business and artistic success and again took top honors at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, but in 1905 at which time Stellmacher left the firm to establish his own company under his own name. The original firm continued to operate as the Reissner & Kessel Amphora Works and operated as such until Kessel also left in 1910. Subsequently, the original firm operated under the business name Amphora Werke Reissner while Stellmacher continued in operation only until 1912. Amphora Werke Reissner continued to produce fine Amphora art pottery through the Art Deco period and the years of World War II, at which time it was nationalized by the Czechoslovakian government in 1945. There were many other Amphora manufacturers who established operations in the Turn-Teplitz region, while imitators emerged elsewhere such as the Zsolnay factory in Pecs, Hungary which went on to create some innovative designs of their own. In addition to Reissner, Stellmacher, and Kessel marked works, one also sees very high quality works which were produced at the Imperial Technical School for Ceramics & Associated Applied Arts from which many of the Amphora designers and artisans graduated. Created in 1885 and continuing in operation through World War I until 1917, the school was a decorative arts and design academy which taught students how to sculpt clay in a manner that was both complex in technique and reflective of "themes" such as nature which was so influencing the Art Nouveau period. The manufacturers of the region benefited from the supply of talent produced at the school, and they contributed to its operation by providing lecturers and raw materials including clay with which the students worked. In the Waltraud Neuwirth book Art Nouveau in Blossom: Austria, a 1908 report describes the curriculum at the school as including "a plant in a given space, to be put into a stylized representation, with consideration for an effective spacial distribution. Model an animal in a stylized shape. Design a simple vessel with handle and plastic decoration represented in relief. Line up plant motifs to form a frieze and represent them plastically. Design and model a flower pot employing flow glazes. Sketch a figure (nude) after a live model." Ernst Wahliss of Turn-Wein, Austria was another early Amphora art pottery designer who enjoyed success beyond the confines of Europe, and Wahliss produced between 1897 and 1906 some of the most beautiful female Art Nouveau busts which are highly sought by collectors today given their beauty and technical complexity. Wahliss was somewhat unique among the Amphora manufacturers for having established his own retail shops in London and Vienna. Another well known, high quality Amphora manufacturer was the firm of Julius Dressler whose manufacturing operation was founded in Belia, Bohemia in 1883 and operated until 1944. During the early 20th century, Bohemia was part of the fading Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Amphora was sold in the United States by finer decorating shops including Louis Comfort Tiffany of New York, who appreciated the innovative, hand crafted designs, vibrant colors, and unique glazes used by the Amphora manufacturers from Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia- now the town of Trovany in Czechoslovakia. Amphora works from this period were extraordinarily complex in manufacturing technique, often requiring as many as 10 firings, a series of decorators, and finishers to do the final style flourishes like gilding. Almost all European Amphora art pottery produced during this period was marked with various Amphora and factory marks including style numbers and in many cases artist's signatures such as Paul Dachsel whose "PD" marks decorated some of the work emanating from Reissner, Stellmacher, & Kessel from 1892 to 1905. Dachsel himself left Reissner in 1905 at the same time as Edward Stellmacher to form his own firm "PD Turn-Teplitz." As sculpture, these ceramics have the rare eclat that characterize works created by Alphonse Mucha, Renee Lalique or Maurice Bouval. Unlike posters or bronzes, these porcelains are practically impossible to replicate because of lost technique, craft and high cost. A porcelain conservator for the Lowie Museum in Berkley, California estimated that to reproduce a piece would approach a cost of $10,000.00. A fine porcelain from Turn-Teplitz manifests the employment of modelers, from at least four to ten or more firings, and, during that process, two or more decorators, Finally a burnisher had to tool and finish the 24K. gold work. The results equal the finest artistic and technical porcelains. These ceramics are rarer and superior in quality and creativity to the many bronzes of the period. PIECE MEASURES APPROX. 16" WIDE X APPROX. 21" TALL . ASK ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING,WE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS.WE PROVIDE A LOT OF PICTURES OF THE ITEM FOR YOUR INSPECTION.(***BUYERS TO PAID SHIPPING,H. & INSURANCE*** )**NO PAYPAL** ONLY CHECK OR MONEY ORDERS IN THE UNITED STATES,**FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES WE ONLY ACCEPT BANK WIRE TRANSFER***WE FULLY INSURE ALL OUR PACKAGES SO ONCE IT LEAVES OUR HANDS WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLES FOR DAMAGES OCURRING DURING TRANSIT.*****ALL SALES ARE FINAL****** ***DUE TO THE SIZE & DELICATE NATURE OF THIS PIECE,BUYER WILL PAID FOR PROFESSIONAL PACKING,SHIPPING & INSURANCE*** ** A REMINDER TO OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS THAT DUE TO THE EXTRAORDINARY!! EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE US DOLLAR & THE EURO,NOW PIECES OF THIS QUALITY CAN BE BOUGHT AT A TREMENDOUS DISCOUNT!,ALMOST 1/2 PRICE COMPARE TO THE US DOLLARS.DON'T LOOSE THIS UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY,WE'LL SHIP WORLDWIDE** (***BUYERS TO PAID SHIPPING,H. & INSURANCE*** )**NO PAYPAL** ONLY CHECK OR MONEY ORDERS IN THE UNITED STATES,**FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES WE ONLY ACCEPT BANK WIRE TRANSFER***(****WE FULLY INSURE ALL OUR PACKAGES SO ONCE IT LEAVES OUR HANDS WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLES FOR DAMAGES OCURRING DURING TRANSIT.*****ALL SALES ARE FINAL******.
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