January 2, 2024
Vintage Arts & Crafts Heintz Sterling on Bronze Vase
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You are bidding on an antique/vintage Arts & Crafts Heintz Metal Art Shop Sterling on Bronze 5 1/2" Vase. The Vase is marked on the bottom.The Heintz Art Metal Shop of Buffalo, New York, flourished during the early years of the twentieth century, producing some of the finest decorative metal wares of the American Arts & Crafts movement. Otto L. Heintz was the founder of the company. He was born in 1877 into a family of jewelers and set out on his own in 1902 when he took over a small local business, renamed it the Art Crafts Shop, and began creating copper pieces with colorful enamel decoration. By 1906, however, Otto L. Heintz took a decidedly new approach to his designs in metal. He developed an artistic style known for utilizing bronze, rather than copper, accented with sterling silver overlay in naturalistic forms as ornamentation. Underscoring this shift in design, the company was now called the Heintz Art Metal Shop. Heintz's works from this period were appealing for their simple yet elegant interpretation of practical everyday objects. Heintz would go on to patent his processes for producing articles in metal, most notably his unique method for applying sterling silver to bronze without solder which was granted in 1912. Otto L. Heintz passed away suddenly at the age of 41 on January 10, 1918. The Heintz Art Metal Shop permanently
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