We hope you enjoy our collection of vintage decorative ceramics and pottery, metalwork, lighting, and high-end fineries from the Art Nouveau/American Arts & Crafts movement, through the art deco years and on into the middle of the century.

Bronze Gothic Art Nouveau Table Lamp In The Manner of Edgar Brandt	Play Days Harriet Frishmuth

An inspired and outrageous, entirely hand painted and created paper-mache decorative mask by Hannes Bok, this captures an exuberant, outlandish Art Deco Egyptian - Orientalist style. One of our favorite illustrators, Bok was born Wayne Woodard and grew up in Duluth Minnesota. As an adult, the artist carved out a meager living as an illustrator and "part time astrologer". What we love most about Bok is his steadfast idealism and refusal to conform to the whims and rigors of publishing trends. Not surprisingly Bok died penniless in New York City. As today's collectors and scholars unearth the lost history of the pulps the star of Hannes Bok burns brighter than at any time during his long and prolific career.

A unique offering from the estate of Charles Martignette, the original Banshee's club "Silver Lady" award presented to comic artist George McManus by Walt Disney himself on January 16th, 1952 at a Beverly Hills luncheon. This award statue was designed by another legendary illustrator, Willy Pogany and features a near nude pin-up girl with a quill pen and an elf and is silver-plated over cast bronze. This was purchased by us at the Charles Martignette estate auction in Delray Beach after the author's untimely and sudden death in 2008.

By Harriet Frishmuth, this 1925 original antique cast bronze sculpture that was conceived as a water fountain is titled "Play Days". A large example of this form is on permanent display at the Como Park Conservatory in St Paul Minnesota. The artwork is a fine example of Beaux-Arts style, which is characterized by a lively naturalism reflecting the optimism at the turn of the century. In 1916, Frishmuth met Desha Delteil, a popular concert dancer, whom she used as a model for many of her most successful sculptures. The artist died in 1980, in Connecticut, at the age of ninety-nine.

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is ecstatic to offer the original pair of carved Hondurous Mahogany decorative column panels that were built for the tavern in Hollywood California's legendary Masquers Club on 6735 Yucca Street. These Afro-American nymphs were carved by the noted WPA muralist and woodcarver Stuart Holmes. We purchased these with the two large original Henry Clive Masquers Club mural paintings we offered and sold earlier this year.

A large and very rare hand painted composition figural advertising display of Josephine Baker in her legendary and scandalous banana skirt. The international sensation made its debut in the 1927 Follies Bergere show titled "Un Vent de Folie" and became Baker's signature costume. Likely French in manufacture, this is an antique and original burlesque era surviving advertising document, we have never seen another example and are certain few were manufactured and even fewer have survived.

We are offering a defining gothic, macabre, Art Nouveau period decorative masterwork. A large original early-1900s bronze snake form lamp with marble base and 2 original marked Quezal art glass shades. An exemplatory example that is dark and gothic in composition and clearly the work of a master metalworker. It is similar in style to free standing snake themed floor lamps By Edgar Brandt and could be a piece of Brandt's early work. Has silk wrapped cloth cord and original on/off switch on the back. A unique and timeless antique original example that is in a fine state of preservation.

This art nouveau creation — a truly unique, early-1900's, 12-panel fan painting — was produced in Austria by Faber Studio. Really a curiosity, as seen, each panel is its own ornately detailed scene, hand-painted on wood. Many of the panels are artist signed. Depicted are a gondola ride, a flapper girl at her boudoir, a young lad smoking, 2 kittens at play, a pair of monks, a seascape, a woman who appears lovelorn, a Spanish senorita, and a few landscapes.

A most unusual wind-up, musical desk set. The top panel that houses the desk organizer components is spring loaded and mechanical, so when the top is opened, the desk components rise up. The music box plays a lilting melancholy tune. Great original paint and screaming design that defines the jazz age, art deco, streamlined industrial, zig-zag aesthetic. In good, albeit used, overall condition. Desk set is missing a knob and there is some pitting to chromium and copper detailing on the top of this oddity.

This is a large and beautiful example of Arts & Crafts period pottery by Weller. A highly detailed Art Nouveau-stylized, deep green substantial piece of American art pottery. Perfect condition with the Weller stamp on base.