A PATINATED BRASS RADIATOR GRILL designed and executed by Winkelman & Van der Bijl, rectangular shape, consisting of five cylindrical columns joined by four rectangular panels open-worked with abstract curvilinear decoration above a facetted frieze, the curved open-work top similarly constructed but the four open-work panels, consisting of curved rectangular strips with ball-decoration at the base, and with sinious interlocking cast-iron wire-work to form a similar decoration to the panels below, the panels hinged to the back to be opened as flaps, the sides applied with rectangular trellis-work terminating at the top in a curved and wavy bronze frieze, on four swollen cylindrical feet, apparently unmarked

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A PATINATED BRASS RADIATOR GRILL designed and executed by Winkelman & Van der Bijl, rectangular shape, consisting of five cylindrical columns joined by four rectangular panels open-worked with abstract curvilinear decoration above a facetted frieze, the curved open-work top similarly constructed but the four open-work panels, consisting of curved rectangular strips with ball-decoration at the base, and with sinious interlocking cast-iron wire-work to form a similar decoration to the panels below, the panels hinged to the back to be opened as flaps, the sides applied with rectangular trellis-work terminating at the top in a curved and wavy bronze frieze, on four swollen cylindrical feet, apparently unmarked
101 cm high x 175 cm wide x 32 cm deep

Lot Essay

cf. Corn. van der Sluys, Binnenhuiskunst, Amsterdam, 1921, p. 119, afb. 156, for another comparable radiator grill by Winkelman

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