Lot 78
  • 78

Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein
  • Tea Service
  • with firm's mark, 181 and 144
  • glazed earthenware
comprising teapot, sugar bowl and creamer

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, December 12, 2003, lot 578 (part)

Literature

Klaus Weber, Keramik und Bauhaus, Berlin, 1989, p. 209
Torsten Bröhan and Thomas Berg, Avantgarde Design: 1880-1930, Cologne, 1994, p. 150 (for an example of the form with different decoration)
Karen McCready, Art Deco and Modernist Ceramics, London, 1995, pp. 34-35
Alastair Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1998, p. 169 (for the service in the Norwest Collection)
Karl H. Bröhan, Art Deco und Funktionalismus 1889-1939, Berlin, 1998, p. 188

Condition

Very good overall condition. The color is a brighter orange hue when compared to the catalogue illustration. The tip of the teapot spout has an area of roughness.
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