WMF Art Nouveau/jugendstil vase with butterflies cca. 1900

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WMF Art Nouveau/jugendstil vase with butterflies cca. 1900:
$109.00

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G e i s l i n g e n , G e r m a n y
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WMF was originally calledMetallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizerand was opened as a metal repairing workshop. Through mergers and acquisitions, by 1900 they were the world\'s largest producer and exporter of household metalware, mainly in the Jugendstil, orArt Nouveaustyle, designed in the WMF Art Studio under Albert Mayer, sculptor and designer, who was director from 1884 to 1914.

In 1880 after Metallwarenfabrik Straub & Schweizer merged with another German company, it was renamed as the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik. WMF acquired the Polish metalware factoryPlewkiewiczinWarsawin 1886, which then became a subsidiary of WMF around 1900. During this period, the WMF employed over 3500 people. In 1890 they acquired theKunstanstalt für Galvanoplastik München, which specialized inelectrotypingand electroforming of statues and statuettes for buildings, fountains, tombstones, and gardens; this became theAbteilung für Galvanoplastik(Galvanoplastic Division) of WMF.During the 1920s,Abteilung für Galvanoplastikwas producing reproductions of large-scale Italian Renaissance bronze works for an American clientele.Albert WeiblenMarble & Granite Co., Inc. of New Orleans pursued the acquisition of a gilt copper reproduction ofGhiberti\'s \"Gates of Paradise\". In 1910, the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti had granted WMF the exclusive right to take a sharp cast of the original doors, from which WMF created a reproduction that was exhibited at the International Building Trades Exhibition in Leipzig (1913).WMF produced a trilingual catalog about the doors, titledErztüre des Hauptportals am Baptisterium in Florenz.

In 1900, WMF acquired Albert Köhler\'s famous Austrian metalwork companyAK & CIE, who produced and distributed WMF items under their mark to the Austria-Hungarian market until about 1914. WMF purchased Orivit AG, a company known for its Jugendstil pewter in 1905, followed a year later by the purchase of theOrion Kunstgewerbliche Metallwarenfabrik, another German metalware company. WMF continued to use the goods from the acquired companies on their own markets, and conversely, they produced and distributed their objects under their acquired companies brands.

In 1955, WMF started production of commercial coffee machines. These products were designed for restaurants, military mess halls, cruise ships and other commercial applications.

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Height - with glass insert-16cm (~6.3\")dia 6cm (~2.3\")
Marked with WMF and \'AS\' - \'antique silver finish\', clear jugendstil trumpet-flower glass liner.
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■ ■■s h i p p i n gWORLDWIDE - 18.00$

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