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Lisa Larson basset hound designed in 1986 as part of the Vov (Woof) series. Artist Lisa Larson Series Vov (Woof) Year 1986 Maker Åhléns Stengods, original production Material Stoneware Condition Very good vintage condition without any chips or cracks. Size Height 3.7 inches, Depth 3.5 inches, Width 2.4 inches. Price: $210
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Fifalla Luna Langelund gray cat motif candleholder designed in the 1980s at the Gabriel Keramik company. Artist Fifalla Luna Langelund Year 1980s Maker Gabriel Keramik, original production; Material Earthenware Condition Good vintage condition without any chips or cracks. Some wear. Size Height 5.5 inches, Diameter 2.6 inches. Price: $80
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Keswick School of Industrial Arts (KSIA) copper flagon with a silvered interior. Approximately 4.25 inches tall by 3.75 inches diameter by 4.75 inches wide with handle. Price: $580
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
The Keswick School of Industrial Art (KSIA) (sometimes Keswick School of Industrial Arts) was founded in 1884 by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and his wife Edith as an evening class in woodwork and repoussé metalwork at the Crosthwaite Parish Rooms, in Keswick, Cumbria, a market town in northwest England’s Lake District National Park.
Tri-Ang Minic Truck with Key (England) Price: $130
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Black two door coupe automobile. Cast iron. Price: $110
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Red four door sedan automobile. Cast Iron. Price: $110
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Poole Pottery (England) Mid Century Modern vase and bowl. These pieces were produced between 1955 and 1959. The vase is marked on the bottom with the company’s Poole England dolphin ink stamp, a decorators mark, and the code PQB D. The vase is 7.75 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Price: $180 The bowl is marked on the bottom with the company’s Poole England dolphin ink stamp, a decorators mark, and the code PJB D. It has a diameter of 6.0 inches by 2.0 inches tall. Price: $140
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Poole is a coastal town in Dorset, southern England, known for its large natural harbour. Poole Pottery was founded as a manufacturer in 1873 on Poole quayside in Dorset. Factory operations were moved in 1999 to a new site in Sopers Lane until its closure in 2006. Poole Pottery is now a brand owned by Denby Pottery Company with the products made in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Vintage film still from the 1951 Science Fiction movie “When Worlds Collide.” Size including frame approximately 16 ¾ inches by 13 5/8 inches by 1 inch. Price: $115
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Jose Pinal (1913 – 1983) Mid-century nude modern style wood carving. The figure is approximately 9.5 inches wide by 4.25 inches deep and 5.0 inches tall. Base 10.2 inches by 5.0 inches by 1.5 inches. Signed on base J. Pinal. It is in very good condition with no significant chips, cracks or losses. There are a few minor areas of wear to the figure and a few nicks to the base. Price: $230
Jose Pinal (1913 -- 1983) was a visual artist who was born in 1913 in Guadalajara, Mexico. At the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco, Pinal then 26 years old, was commissioned to demonstrate his art at the Mexican Pavilion. Pinal returned to his native Mexico and established a wood carving workshop in Mexico City where he and his apprentices created original religious, contemporary, and abstract figures.
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Art Deco low copper bowl with a Parrot design by Professor Franz Hirsch, Munich, Germany. Marked on the reverse “GERMANY, Franz Hirsch, München.” Approximately 9.2 inches diameter by 1.2 inches tall. Price: $280
May be seen at: Antiques Bel Air – Lowry Hill, 1758 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Professor Fritz Hirsch (1871 – 1938) was a German art historian, architect, and pioneer of state-sponsored historical preservation. He was born on 21 April 1871 in Konstanz, in the German Empire, to parents of Jewish descent.
Hirsch graduated from a Konstanz gymnasium in 1889 and then began studying art and architecture in Karlsruhe and Munich. From 1895, Hirsch worked as an apprentice architect at the inspection offices of the Konstanz and Heidelberg districts. He received his doctorate in 1897.
In 1900 Hirsch became an assessor specializing in architecture for the government of Heidelberg. Five years later he was the district inspector for Bruchsal. From 1900 to 1909 Hirsch directed a restoration of Schloss Bruchsal and the nearby St. Peter's Church, a groundbreaking landmark in the field of historical preservation. Hirsch was dismissed from all his positions in 1933 by the anti-Semitic Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service