June 11 & 12, 2024 Fine & Decorative Art
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/11/2024
Charles Volkmar (American, 1841-1914) pair of Ormolu Mounted Art Pottery Vases, circa 1877-1879, impressed mark to underside for the Charles Houry Pottery of Paris, France, both signed "Charles Volkmar" and handsomely painted with cows watering amidst a Barbizon style landscape, earthenware with underglaze slip painting in brilliant blues, greens, yellows and whites, gilt bronze ormolu mounts to rim and base. HOA 17 - 3/4". These vases are very similar in decoration to a large single vase, lacking mounts, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. This vase is illustrated in American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, published in 2018, figure 37. A pair of vases, circa 1881 and made in Brooklyn, New York, are in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum; they too feature forested landscapes with cows watering. Stable crazing; some minor roughness to base of vase from mounts.
Condition: (Very Good)