an Art Nouveau patinated bronze vase.
Relief decor with leaf loops and a grasshopper, signed HUGO ELMQVIST HAB and stamped HEt. Height 31,5 cm.
A leaf loop with small split.
Compare Bukowskis Modern Spring sale 2011, nr 560, catalogue no 516, this same model executed in Florence ca 1900.
Hugo Elmqvist traveled on a scholarship to Italy in 1895. In Villa Randinelli on Fiesolehöjden outside Florence, he experimented for about five years with his later own patented casting method of bronze objects and sculptures.