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Arts and Crafts : 1900-1940s
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Signed Clara Schlegel Roycroft Salt and Pepper Shakers with Hand Painted Secessionist Design
A Salt and Pepper set hand painted in a Secessionist Design and signed by Clara Schlegel who was one of the early and better known illustrator and illuminators of the Roycroft books.
A Very Rare and not sold but given as gift among the Roycrofts, this rare set bought from the great grandson of a female Roycrofter.
The colors and gilding are in very good condition.
The base is signed CS and from the signed illuminated book, the initials are very similar.
If you have any questions or need additional images, please feel free to email me.
Size: dimensions are: 2-3/4" tall x 1-1/2" max diameter
Condition: Very Good
From the Roycroft Inn: "The first Roycroft art director, Samuel Warner, designed most of the early title pages of Roycroft books and also aided in the development of the graphic arts department. Renowned Roycroft book illuminators and illustrators included: Alta Fattey, Minnie Gardner, Beulah Hood, Bertha Hubbard, Lawrence Mazzanovich, Harriet Robarge, Clare Schlegel and famed "Wizard of Oz" artist W.W. Denslow, when in residence. The first floor of the tower room was originally called the Oak Room and was used for china painting, a craft excelled in by Hubbard's first wife Bertha, and fellow artists, Clara Schlegel and Alta Fattey."
A Very Rare and not sold but given as gift among the Roycrofts, this rare set bought from the great grandson of a female Roycrofter.
The colors and gilding are in very good condition.
The base is signed CS and from the signed illuminated book, the initials are very similar.
If you have any questions or need additional images, please feel free to email me.
Size: dimensions are: 2-3/4" tall x 1-1/2" max diameter
Condition: Very Good
From the Roycroft Inn: "The first Roycroft art director, Samuel Warner, designed most of the early title pages of Roycroft books and also aided in the development of the graphic arts department. Renowned Roycroft book illuminators and illustrators included: Alta Fattey, Minnie Gardner, Beulah Hood, Bertha Hubbard, Lawrence Mazzanovich, Harriet Robarge, Clare Schlegel and famed "Wizard of Oz" artist W.W. Denslow, when in residence. The first floor of the tower room was originally called the Oak Room and was used for china painting, a craft excelled in by Hubbard's first wife Bertha, and fellow artists, Clara Schlegel and Alta Fattey."
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