various objects recently sold from the collection of Delta 98 Den Haag

an architectural building ornament

Dutch art deco - Amsterdam School, titled:

Het Denken - The Thought

designed circa 1925 by

Willem Coenraad Brouwer (Dutch, 1877-1933)

a terracotta vessel, a

Sicilian rhyton or Greek sirrup jar

made circa 100-200 BC

an extremely beautiful modelled and executed with great detail

porcelain figure of a standing hunting dog, known as

German Wirehaired Pointer

made and marked by

Metzler & Ortloff

executed between 1890 and 1945

an issue of the famous Dutch art deco magazine

Wendingen

this issue was initiated in 1929 and published in 1930

as volume 10, no. 10

subject: Russian Theatre - Russisch Toneel

f.e. Stanislawski, Meyerhold and Tairoff

cover design: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

- born in Amsterdam 1868, killed in Auschwitz 1944 -

layout: H. Th. Wijdeveld (1885-1987)

vintage, high performance enlarging lens

Apo-Rodagon 1: 2.8 f=50mm

made by

Rodenstock, Germany

a 19th century wooden plaque with handpainted

coat of arms / familiewapen and motto

Cassis Tutissima Virtus

- virtue is the safest helmet -

belonging to

Joan Daniel Wilhelm van Arkel baron d'Ablaing

(1827-1897)