Original Early 20th Century Chinese Republic Era Handmade Brass Bowl Signed w/ Apocryphal Six-Character Xuande Period Reign Mark Displaying Two Dragons & Lantern Encircling the Exterior as well as Calligraphic Symbols on the Interior!
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$45 OFFER
Rare Beautiful Set of Seven (7) Original Signed Japanese Gold-Encrusted Satsuma Art Pottery Bowls Displaying the Hand-Painted “1000 Butterflies” (One Thousand Butterfly) Pattern Rendered in Orange-Red, Gold, Green, Blue, Yellow, Purple, & White!
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$465 OFFER
Signed & Dated 1936 Original Vintage 3-Sided Porcelain Bowl Displaying Rare Example of Modernist Machine Age / Art Deco American China Painting w/ Hand-Painted Abstract Design in Silver on White to Mimic Polished Steel & Chrome of the Era!
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$65 OFFER
Miniature 3 ½” Signed Original Vintage Modern Enamel-on-Copper Art Plate Created by American Artist “M. McFall” Displaying a Circular Form w/ Square Center, Fern & Berry Design in Green, Yellow, Blue & Red Enameling & Overall Mottled Green Background
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$22 OFFER
Outstanding Signed Original Vintage 1960s-1970s Modern Handmade Enamel-on-Copper Bowl Created by Millersville, Pennsylvania Artist F. Augustin Displaying Geometric Abstraction w/ Varying-Sized Silver Foil Rectangles in Red-Orange Enameling!
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$68 OFFER
Rare & Exceptional Signed 11 ½” Original Vintage Modern Japanese Hand-Blown Thick-Walled Art Glass Vase by Iwata Of Tokyo, Japan Displaying Beautiful Classic Asian Form Internally Decorated w/ Light Jade-Like Green Filled & Gold Aventurine Flecks!
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$265 OFFER
Unusual & Beautifully-Created Signed Original Vintage 1950s/1960s Modern Midcentury Enamel-on-Copper Art Plate by Limoges, France Artist Marylou Fauvet Displaying Sumptuous Green Enameling w/ Rippling Waves & Moriage-Like Raised White Flowers!
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$75 OFFER
Original Vintage Cut & Polished Organic Texas Ebony Wood Log Slice Created as a Display Stand or Plinth for an Art Object which Exhibits Beautiful Dark & Dense Circular Grain Pattern, Light-Colored Outer Bark, & Several Naturally Occurring Cracks!
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$24 OFFER
Beautifully-Created Signed Original Vintage Modern Lathe-Turned Organic Wood Vase Created by an American Artist Displaying a Low Circular Form Sitting atop a Short Footrim Base along w/ Naturally Occurring Decayed Side Opening & Wild Grain Pattern!
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$45 OFFER
Beautiful 8” Original Antique Hand-Carved Burl Root Wood Bowl/Basket w/ Nice Dark Patina on an Aggressively Organic Form Filled w/ Natural Decay, Knots, Check Marks & Nub-Like Protuberances & Unusual Arching Handle w/ Three Branch-Like Projections!
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$55 OFFER
Framed Signed & Dated 1982 Original Vintage Watercolor & Gouache Painting Created by Native American Hopi Indian Artist Daniel Namoki Displaying Southwestern Desert Landscape w/ Two Polychrome Burnished Pottery Vessels/Vases & Two Turquoise Necklaces
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$125 OFFER
Beautiful Large 24 ½” Artist-Created Original Vintage Modern Organic Carved Wood Bowl Made From Naturally-Decayed Log Displaying Elongated Free-Form Shape Tapering in Size w/ Multiple Open Pass-Throughs, Prepossessing Grain Pattern & Darkened Patina!
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$345 OFFER
Rare Large 25”X19” Signed Original Vintage 1940s-1950s Modern Midcentury Enamel-on-Steel (not Copper) Plaque/Painting by Italian-American Artist Joseph Anthony “JABU” Buzzelli Displaying Abstract Female Figure set against Colorful Square Pattern!
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$2,200 OFFER
Beautifully-Rendered Framed Original Artist-Signed & Dated Painting (Possibly Gouache on Paper) Displaying a Portrait of Two (2) Jack Russell Terrier Dogs w/ Prick Ears Both of Whom are Sitting Attentively & Obediently While Looking Straight Ahead!
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$165 OFFER
Professionally-Framed Signed Original Vintage Watercolor Painting Created by Janesville, Wisconsin Artist Ernest “Ernie” Rost (1900-1990) Displaying Coastal Landscape w/ Lighthouse on Inlet Bay, Fishing Boat, Boulder-Lined Shoreline & Peninsula!
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$465 OFFER
Large 14” Artist-Created Signed Fused & Slumped Kiln-Fired Modern Studio Art Glass Bowl Displaying an Altered Green Circular Form w/ Abstract & Amorphous Designs Rendered in Blue, Black, White, Red & Iridescent Dichroic Formations!
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$55 OFFER
11 ¼” Exceptional Signed Original Vintage Handmade/Hand-Thrown Modern Post-War Korean “Goryeo Celadon Revival” Pottery/Porcelain Bowl Displaying Large Circular Form w/ Repeating Incised Patchwork Basketweave Design Covered in Blue-Green Glaze!
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$165 OFFER
Framed Unusual Miniature Post-War Showa-Era Japanese Wireless Cloisonné (Musen Shippo) Enamel-on-Copper Art Plaque Uniquely Created by an Artist in Japan Displaying Mt. Fuji Mountain w/ Red Lava Flow Over White Snow Surrounded by Black Enameling!
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$110 OFFER
Signed & Dated Arts & Crafts Revival Crystalline Glaze Studio Pottery / Porcelain Covered Jar Created by Cool, California & Miles City, Montana Artist John “Manka” Mankameyer (1933-2015) Displaying Stunning Yellow Crystals on Grayish-Yellow Ground!
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$185 OFFER
9” Original Vintage Modern Japanese Cast Iron Bull Sculpture/Figure/Figurine Displaying Solid-Looking Mature Male Bovine w/ Head Looking Upward & Friendly Posture – All Covered in Heavily Textured Surface Patina w/ Black, Gold & Orange-Rust Spots!
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$265 OFFER
Large Beautifully-Created Artist-Signed 13” Handmade High-Fired Studio Art Pottery Tray Displaying Hand-Shaped Slab-Built Circular Form w/ Two Pulled Handles & Mottled Rockingham-Type Brown Glaze w/ Dicksonia or Dryopteris Fern Design!
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$110 OFFER
Beautiful 11” X 11” Post-War Showa-Era Japanese Wireless Cloisonne (Musen Shippo) Enamel-on-Copper Convex Art Plaque Probably by Ando Workshop of Nagoyu, Japan Displaying a Snow-Capped White & Red Mt. Fuji Mountain Surrounded by Akasuke Enameling!
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$285 OFFER
Beautifully-Made Signed 9 ½” Original Vintage Modern Japanese Arita Porcelain Art Vase made by Fukagawa Seiji of Japan that Displays an Underglaze Purple Iris Flower w/ a Grouping of Long Blue Leaves & Stems all Rendered in a Pastel Color Palette!
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$68 OFFER
Beautiful 9 1/2” Post-War Showa-Era Japanese Wireless Cloisonne (Musen Shippo) Enamel-on-Copper Art Plate Probably by Ando Workshop of Nagoyu, Japan Displaying an Intensely Red Mt. Fuji Mountain w/ Unusual Yellow-Green Atmospheric Sky & Clouds!
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$265 OFFER
Beautiful 7” Post-War Showa-Era Japanese Wireless Cloisonne (Musen Shippo) Enamel-on-Copper Art Plate Probably by the Ando Workshop of Nagoyu, Japan Displaying Snow-Capped Red Mt. Fuji Mountain w/ Unusual Blue & Pink Atmospheric Sky!
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$85 OFFER
Hand-Carved Original Vintage Black and Green w/ White Veining Serpentine Stone Carving / Figure / Sculpture that Displays the Head, Broad Neck & Beak of a Stoic Wild Eagle!
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$36 Sale Price 20% Off
Nice 6 ¾” X 4 ¾” Original Antique (1890-1920) Handmade Chinese Repoussé Hinged Box w/ Heavy Brass Framework, Light & Cobalt Blue as well as Burgundy-Brown Enamel & Eight Buddhist Symbols on the Lid & Matching Decorative Side Panels!
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$100 Sale Price 20% Off
Beautiful 10 ¼” Signed Modern Post-War Korean “Goryeo Celadon Revival” Pottery / Porcelain Vase that Displays a Maebyeong (Meiping / Prunus) Form w/ Blue-Green Glaze and Heavily Decorated Black & White Flying Cranes, Clouds & Stylized Lotus Leaves!
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$132 Sale Price 20% Off
11 3/8” Signed & Dated Original American-Made Fused Kiln-Fired Studio Art Glass Plate Created by New Jersey Artist Peggy Karr in the “Sahara Desert Oasis” Pattern Comprised of Palm Trees, Thatched House, Pools of Water, Sandy Landscape & Blue Sky!
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$16 Sale Price 20% Off
Rare 13+” Signed Original Vintage 1960s Modern Midcentury Hand-Blown/Handmade Italian Art Glass Vase Created by Nason Moretti of Murano, Italy Displaying a Three-Sided Bottle Shape Rendered in Uranium Yellow & Corroso Surface Texture!
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$184 Sale Price 25% Off
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For those of you searching the vast frontiers of art and design on Ruby Lane, please know the high standards of steadfast honesty, fairness, and responsibility will be assiduously provided and maintained by Design References, which is now an "Exclusive Shop" on Ruby Lane.About Us
Design References is a life-long pursuit established by a former art museum curator who can call upon half a century of searching, collecting, and researching the aggressive, progressive, regressive, and retrogressive ideals of modern design rooted in the nineteenth century, culminating in the twentieth century, and then metastasizing in the twenty first century. Areas of very humble expertise include all of the traditional decorative arts, architecture, industrial and studio arts, with a particular emphasis on the handmade object.The inventory at Design References includes all media, both two and three dimensional. This includes but is not limited to art glass, ceramics and studio pottery, metalwork of all types, textiles and fiber art, leather and wood art, plastics of all genre, silver and gold, stone art, sculpture, bronze, the painted surface including oils and acrylics and watercolor -- among others, the printed surface including serigraph and mezzotint and etching -- among others, as well as paper-related art and design forms. In addition, the inventory at Design References can boast over ten thousand examples of enamel art, otherwise known as glass on metal, which includes copper, steel, aluminum, iron, and bronze.
Along with fifty years of searching, collecting, and research experience, the tireless servant behind Design References also has twenty three years experience in on-line selling under a different name on a different selling platform. This includes secure packing and shipping, resulting in well over twenty thousand very happy customers and 100% positive feedback! Here are a few comments left over the years:
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