Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

I bought the vase in Los Angeles on a trip I made out to visit family. I spotted it in a friend's antique store almost right when I walked in the door and decided at that point I needed to have it so we worked out a trade for it.

APPRAISER

Well, you have a good eye. It's a great piece--it's a Dirk Van Erp. The time period is about 1910, 1912, made in California. It has a nice early mark. An unusual thing is that it's in brass--you can see by the brass underlying--rather than copper. You find very few that are in brass, as opposed to in copper and it's just an absolutely wonderful Arts and Crafts form. It's simple. It has a nice, wonderfully ovoid form to it. The weight, the gauge is heavier than normal on it. The simplicity is in a reaction to the busywork of Victorian times. The design itself, which is the hammering and the patination is a part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Not quite monumental in size-- it's under 12 inches--

GUEST

Sure.

APPRAISER

but it's a beauty. Valuation? I would have to say in the neighborhood of between $2,500 and $3,500.

GUEST

Wow.