When I think of the Bronze Age, rightly or not, I think of
rather rudimentary men inhabiting the earth using bronze to make very basic tools
and so I was curiously surprised when I eyed these vessels in the window of the
Amaridian Gallery in Manhattan … could they be true antiquities of back then?
Much to my surprise, these marvelous objet d’art turned out to be the result of contemporary
experimentation with bronze by South African-based duo Otto du Plessis and
Charles Haupt of Bronze Age Studio in Cape Town. The delectable bowls are quite beautiful in
their coloring, elegant in their shape and those with external decoration, are curiously
quirky. Imagine a pair flanking a tastefully
lacquered Japanese box on a Ruhlmann console table … simply spectacular.
image credits: Amaridian Gallery, New York, where the pieces
can be acquired. The vessels range in
height from 2-8 in. tall and 4-10 in. in diameter.
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