K&O Kronheim & Oldenbusch DANTE BOOKENDS - c1930 - Bronzed Hand-Painted

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K&O Kronheim & Oldenbusch DANTE BOOKENDS - c1930 - Bronzed Hand-Painted :
$35.00

Kronheim & Oldenbusch (K&O Co.)
DANTE BOOKENDS
Hand-Painted Bronzed Gray Metal
After an artwork by Italian artist A. Mantarani
3 1/2 lbs.(each)
6 1/8” tall x 5 1/2” wide x 4” deep

DANTE ALIGHEI BOOKENDS
Hand-Painted Bronzed Gray Metal
- Height: 6 1/8 inches
- Width: 5 1/2 inches
- Depth: 4 inches
- Makers Mark: (K&O Co.) Kronheim & Oldenbusch Company - Made in USA
- Red hat, red-brown hat band with gold spots. Red-brown shoes with gold spots.
- From the Art Deco period. Circa 1930.

Looks to the modern eye like Dante is using a cell phone. :)

ABOUT KRONHEIM & OLDENBUSCH CO.
K & O (Kronheim & Oldenbusch),1895 to 1939. These are not so much bookends as small metal works of art, and in fact the famed Brooklyn-based Kronheim & Oldenbusch Company hired well-known sculptors of the day to create the molds for their extremely intricate cast metal bookends. By the 1939, they had closed their doors, but not before they created some of the most sought-after Deco era bookends available today.

ABOUT DANTE
Durante degli Alighieri simply called Dante c. 1265-1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called ComedÏa and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is called il Sommo Poeta (\"the Supreme Poet\") and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called \"the three fountains\" and \"the three crowns\". Dante is also called \"the Father of the Italian language.\"

VERY GOOD. Some of the paint is worn off in places. The felt on the bottom of one of the booksends is missing — easy enough to replace. Overall these bookends are in excellent condition.

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