Michael Powolny AUSTRIA FIGURE WEINER WERKSTATTE DECO RARE FIGURAL POTTERY Michael Powolny ART DECO COMPOTE Start Price USD 898.99 Current Price USD 898.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 899.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 22, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Location Lausanne See more about 'Michael Powolny AUSTRIA FIGURE WEINER WERKSTATTE DECO' Description Michael Powolny was born in 1871 and he died in 1954. THIS PIECE IS A LARGE EIGHT INCHES TALL.....THIS IS AN ORIGINAL WEINER WERKSTATE SIGNED PIECE WITH BOTH THE WEINER WERKSTATTE "WW" STAMP AND THE MICHAEL POWOLNY STAMP "MP" AND THE REMINENTS OF A PAPER LABEL......THIS BOWL/COMPOTE IS SEEN IN PHOTOS OF THE ERA ABOUT THE WEINER WERKSTATTE EXHIBITION...YOU CAN SEE THIS VERY BOWL IN A VITRINE DISPLAY CASE IN A NUMBER OF PHOTOS....THE BOWL IS CRACKED AND REPAIRED FROM THE ERA AND CAN BE PROFESSIONALLY REPAIRED...THE PUTTI IS MINT CONDITION AND IT'S ONLY THE BOWL WHICH HAS THE CRACK, THE COLOURS ARE NOT FADED OR DAMAGED ......A VERY VERY RARE PIECE YOU CAN SEE IN DOCUMENTATION FROM THE ERA ABOUT THE WEINER WERKSTATTE....VERY VERY RARE...! THIS IS ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS DESIGNS EVER...THE PUTTI CALLED "SPRING".YOU CAN SEE THIS VERY PIECE IS DOCUMENTATION OF THE WEINER WERKSTATTE SHOWROOM IN A VITRINE CABINET...WE ARE SHOWING SOME BETTER PICTURES OF THE MARKINGS ALTHOUGH IT IS VERY HARD TO PHOTOGRAPH, THEY ARE VERY CLEAR IN REAL....THEY ARE WHITE ON WHITE AND IMPRESSED INTO THE CERAMIC AND GLAZED...THAT IS WHY THEY ARE HARD TO PHOTOGRAPH, WE DID OUR BEST,..YOU CAN SEE THE MP MARK AND THE WW MARK AND IF YOU HAVE BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT YOU CAN SEE THESE CLEARLY AND COMPARE, THEY ARE IDENTICAL.....OUR FAMILY WORKED WITH THE WW SINCE THE BEGINNING AND THIS HAS BEEN IN OUR FAMILY SINCE IT WAS NEW, IT WAS DAMAGED SOMEWHERE BACK WHEN THE PIECE WAS NEW.....IT WILL BE EASY TO REPAIR BECAUSE THE GLUE IS ANIMAL GLUE (AND NOT SYNTHETIC LIKE THE ONES OF TODAY) AND WILL BE ASY TO TAKE APART AND FIX CORRECTLY......... ABOUT POWOLNY MICHAEL: He was born on the 18th of Sept.1871 in Judenburg (Styria), Austria. After the apprenticeship as a potter, Powolny attended 1891-1894 the School for Potter-industry in Znaim. From 1894-1901 he was at the Viennese School of Applied Arts in Vienna (Kunstgewerbeschule) (O. König, A. Strasser), From 1903-1906 at F. Metzner. In 1906 foundation of the "Viennese Ceramics" with Bertold Löffler, and from 1907 the "Viennese Ceramics"  with the WIENER WERKSTATTE.  The Wiener Werkstaette obtained the general rights for Germany (purchase to the branch-offices of the German factories). 1913 Association between the "Viennese Ceramics" and the ceramics-producing factory in Gmunden (United Viennese and Gmundner Potterware Production Schleiss company). 1909-1936 he was Professor at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna. Designs he did for other companies: Wiener Keramik, Böck, Sommerhuber, Schwadron, Augarten, Wienerberger (Keramik, Porzellan), Lobmeyr, Lötz (Glas), Klinkosch (Silberwaren). Works for the Wiener Werkstatte: Ceramics, Decoration of the Cabaret Fledermaus,  Palais Stoclet. Collaboration in villas by Josef Hoffmann: Villa Skywa, Vienna, Villa Ben, Freundenthal Some of the various Exhibitions he was included in with Loffler: Paris World's Fair, 1900, Viennese Art (Secession), 1902, Kunstschau 1908 and 1909, Winter-exhibition (Museum for Art and Industry), 1909/10, 1910/11, 1913/14, Spring-exhibition atthe same museum 1912, Exhibition for Hunting. 1910, Special-exhibition for ceramics and enamel 1911, International Exhibition for Art, Rome, 1911, Werkbund-Exhibition Cologne 1914, Exhibition Austrian Arts and Crafts 1919, Einfacher Hausrat 1920, Anniversary-exhibition of the Viennese Association for Arts and Crafts 1924, Paris 1925, Kunstschau 1927, Christmas-exhibitions (Künstlerhaus 1928 and 1929, Werkbund-exhibition 1939, Paris 1937. Member of the Austrian and German Werkbund. Michael Powolny died on the 4.1. 1954 in Vienna. Some of this information comes from the internet website of Karolinsky....but also from various books on the subject including the Weiner Werkstatte books recently published. PLEASE ASK FOR MORE PICTURES IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE THEM... WE ONLY ACCEPT PAYPAL FOR THIS SALE WITHIN THREE DAYS PLEASE; WE SEND ONLY BY REGISTERED FIRST CLASS PRIORITY AIRMAIL WITH SIGNATURE FOR SAFETY AND FULL INSURANCE FOR LOSS, WE CHARGE THE FLAT RATE WHICH IS EXACTLY THE AMOUNT TO SEND BY THIS METHOD,...PLEASE ASK ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING....SERIOUS BIDDERS ONLY PLEASE ...AND PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS A HEAVY ITEM COMING FROM SWITZERLAND, THE POSTAGE REFLECTS THIS. THANK YOU!<P>No returns or refunds, sold as is and as described. Payment only by PAYPAL ONLY WITHIN THREE DAYS. 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