Featured Is Mid Century decorative art becoming more collectible?

I bought these three 7" wood framed porcelain plaques. The frames are cracked, but I think that adds to the vintage beauty. The only thing I could find on the company history was 1950s 1960s home Decore. There items seem to sell pretty well these days. What are your thoughts.

Mikey

 

Not selling in my area. However, what sells well on-line doesn't necessarily sell locally. I have a whole backlog of merchandise for eBay someday that has no interest locally.

 

Yeah, I was just looking at Ebay completed listings.

 

Cannot help with sales info--just iconography. The second image is based on Angelica Kauffman's painting of Jupiter (disguised as Diana) seducing Callisto. There is a verison in St. Petersburg (Florida) Museum of Art (attached below) and Wikipedia shows another from Christie's in 2015 (no info on current collecton). It was reproduced on decorative items (esp. china), but often omiting Jupter's eagle, which confuses the subject. Here the same three images are on china plates: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1221420265/set-of-three-vintage-hammersleycobone.

I have it on a pin that came out of my grandmother's costume jewelry box (probably from the "dress up" box she kept for children.) I wore it when I lectured on Kauffman.

 

Thank you @Iconodule
You actually did help with the selling.
Mikey

 

If one of them is after a famous painting, odds are the other two would be also. Maybe?

Mikey

 

I am sure they are after 18th century paintings or other art works, but I am a 15th century specialist. (I recognized the Kauffman because I saw it in St. Pete & remembered my grandmother's pin. I also have done some Callisto research in relation to a 16th cen drawing.) My guess is that your pic 4 (Cupid + 2 figures) may also be after Kauffman, but the one with 3 figures (center figure reclining) & sheep strikes me as a different artist--maybe because the figures wear 18th century dress, rather than classicizing costumes. I tried running both through Google lens & found other repros on china, but no mention of the original artist. That is difficult because style is so changed in china painting reproductions.

I am interested in Kauffman repros on china because I have seen so many for sale online where the sellers have no idea of the original iconography.

Maybe someone else with more detailed knowledge of 18th century paintings (or who just happened to see them in a museum or book) will recognize the other two. I would be interested.

By the way, you have helped me too. I went through Wendy Roworth's Angelica Kauffman book looking (unsuccessfully) for your other image & found an image after Kauffman that corresponds to the image on a teacup that I inherited. I had already recognized the subject, but had not realized that the composition stemmed from a Kauffman design.

 

I kept searching and found a reference to your pic 5 (Cupid + 2 figures) as an "Angelica Kauffman scene."

$100* Chairish 1930s Limoges Porcelain Plate, France. Angelica Kauffmann Scene |

It is no longer online so probably sold.

The more I look at the image, the more I think it is after Kauffman and possibly another version of Jupiter (as Diana) & Callisto--but without his eagle I cannot be certain.

I also found many objects with the same image but no ID of original artist or subject.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/175107...c0d1:1f9b91702c12794ef9d733c359806129c97338a6

In wooden frame $30.57 Vintage porcelain medallion with transfer of mythological representation in oak frame, marked GL (Goumot Labesse) Limoges

https://www.etsy.com/listing/175107...fac0:6bd216ef42d6ded7bd04c6928bb0d9f7f48ae7fb [This is the Callisto image, also $30.57]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/179727...138a8a839542:1797276334&variation0=4849161235

and others through google lens search:

https://www.google.com/search?vsrid...750&hl=en-US#vhid=ArouIaLZeC33bM&vssid=mosaic

 

As for the image with 3 figures in 18th century dress & sheep, I found several citing "Fragonard" or "Fragonard style" and one stating it was "after Jean-Antoine Watteau." I have not been able to verify either using image searches, but my personal library does not include monographs or "complete works" volumes on either artist.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/d...-an-undergro/416DC2D01ED6B93D7CA147FBC20BE85F (This says “After Jean-Antoine Watteau depicting a gallant scene in an undergrowth Miniature Painting.")
https://auctionet.com/en/889278-lockurna-rorstrand
https://www.etsy.com/listing/431736...8309189ab65a7c3213e39b295bb886ae6b:4317361265 (“Fragonard style”, reversed image)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165853630772

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235939579157

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/255341580818 (also “Fragonard” but unclear if claiming general ambience or specific repro—does not cite a particular work by Fragonard)

 

Wow you did an awesome job researching these. Thank you very much @Iconodule

 

Wonderfully informative posts, @Iconodule -- I'm glad that I opened this thread.

@916Bulldogs123 , this won't give you much more information, but will post a link anyway. It's from an old Harry Rinker on Collectibles column (2012). This was the most I found on the company from a brief search.
https://www.harryrinker.com/col-1321.html (It is the third Q&A down the column.)

 

Thanks @Figtree3
I listed mint this morning. We'll see how it goes..