ca. 1899-1900
Austrian
Decorative Arts
Lighting Devices
bronze, nautilus shell
Overall: 17 1/2 × 7 3/8 × 7 1/2 in. (44.45 × 18.73 × 19.05 cm)
72.19
Not on view
Signed on proper right side of base: Gurschner/7 99
Sydney and Frances Lewis Art Nouveau Fund
1972-1975: "Art Nouveau", VMFA Artmobile exhibition, September 1972 - May 1975

A similar piece was displayed at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Arts, Turin, Italy, 1902
Gerald Schurr, "Art Dispatch from Europe," Connoisseur, Oct 1971, p. 142;

Paul Greenhalgh, ed., Art Nouveau 1890-1914," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2000, p. 260, fig. 16.10;

Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lighting, Thames and Hudson, pl. XXII;

Patricia Bayer, "Art Nouveau," Antiques World, Oct 1981, p. 32;

Frederick R. Brandt, Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts. The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1985, pp. 66-67, no. 13;

Robert Franz, Robert Kei and Markus Kristan, Austria Architektur Wohnkultur Kunst 1900-1910, ed., Amartis, Vienna, 2011, p. 127;



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