Villeroy & Boch Trivet? Board? Any idea of age or item?

[ghopper1924]

Well B i think is interesting. I think some might call it Deco but i reckon it's Art Nouveau.

Seccessionist, specifically. Hoffman and the like....

[KC]

Isn't Seccession Style - grid-like patterns - from Art Nouveau period as well?  (Austria, Germany, etc)

[Ipcress]

It's art nouveau,though, without having a 2 hour discussion on Beardsley to Bauhaus

This is secessionist and you can see the similarities.

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/16890362_a-late-19th-century-minton-pottery-secessionist-mould

Then there are other secessionist items which appear very art deco. The deco period would probably have been dated earlier if it had not been for the war. As a rule, as we all know, Deco is given as 1920's and 30's, primarily because of the 1925 Paris Exhibition from which people gave the period it's name. T
here are definitely pieces of the type seen much earlier, however.

[KC]

Oh come on Ipcress....let's have at least a 1 hour discussion! 

[bigwull]

Mmm!!...Bauhaus....i,ve got an album of theirs kicking around somewhere...i don,t think you,d like Gothic Rock KC....but you never know....I know Mart would,nt

[ghopper1924]

Bela Lugosi's dead.....good to have a little Bauhaus in ourhaus.....

[KC]

Remember Wullie...I was born in the 50's...and was in High school in the 70's!!!!!!  Actually like some the songs!!!

Wow, I really like exclamation marks lately!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[bigwull]

By all accounts you must have just made it into the 50,s...if you were in high school in the 70,s...which by my reckoning...makes you ..still a spring chicken....

[KC]

Wowwwwwww...that is compliment from Wullie!!!!!!!!!!  I feel so youthful now!