Antique American Art Deco Brass Glass Vases Ship Bookends Bradley & Hubbard 1925 Mid-Century Modern Merklen Brothers of New York

Merklen Brothers of New York Gilded Age furniture is highly recognizable by their signature construction techniques and being stylistically distinct from European fashions of the period

as is common with these chests from Lyon

The urn with gilt bronze handles to the sides held in the mouths of lion's masks

and joined with a shaped skirt

Antique American Art Deco Brass Glass Vases Ship Bookends Bradley & Hubbard 1925 Mid-Century Modern Merklen Brothers of New YorkPair of antique American Art Deco cast brass and blue glass vase bookends, by Bradley and Hubbard, circa 1925. The heavy cast gilt brass liners modeled on both sides as galleons raised on cast brass bases which are modeled as the rolling waves of the ocean. The cast brass bases receive the original ribbed blue Art Glass vase liners, the glass vases of a bright aqua blue. Having a pair with both original blue glass inserts fully intact and crack free