Design

Marie Zimmermann

Vase with Base

Lot Closed

October 19, 05:33 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Marie Zimmermann

Vase with Base

circa 1920

model no. 76

patinated hand-wrought copper, bronze

vase impressed MARIE ZIMMERMANN and numbered 76

7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm) high including base

6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm) diameter

Personal collection of the artist

Thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Deborah Dependahl Waters and Joseph Cunningham, The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmermann, New York, 2012, pp. 78 and 249 (for a related model)

David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy and Susan J. Montgomery, Arts and Crafts Metalwork from the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, FL, 2017, p. 217 (for a related model)

Marie Zimmermann distinguished herself as a craftsman through her inventive metalwork and jewelry design. She intended for her organic vase forms to be displayed on base stands, as documented by the present vase and base pairing appearing in the living room of the Edsel & Eleanor Ford Mansion in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.