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EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – “CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
“CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Multilayered and parly hammered glass, acid-etched and wheel-carved decor of a bat and poppies
Signed underneath: Emile Gallé fecit.
24.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Emile Gallé et Toulouse-Lautrec / Lumières et couleurs de la Belle Epoque, 1995, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, p. 30 et 31 in the exhibition catalogue, n. 16
Exhibition on Emile Gallé in five museums in Japan between April 2000 and March 2001, ill. p. 57, 58 and 59, n. 19 in the catalogue.
Gallé et le Japonisme, 2008, Tokyo-Osaka, n. 62 in the exibition catalogue
Emile Gallé / Nature & Symbolisme / Influences du Japon, Musée Départemental
Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 5 May-30 August 2009, ill. p. 135, n.114
Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Muséée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March – 22 September 2019, ill. pp. 16, 17
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du verre en France 1860-1914, Edita Denoël, 1974, ill. p. 63
RENE LALIQUE – HECTOR GUIMARD – PAIR OF WALL-LIGHTS “ÉPIS DE BLÉ”, TRIPTYCH FOLDING MIRROR, FIREPLACE, CIRCA 1900
PAIR OF WALL-LIGHTS “ÉPIS DE BLÉ”, TRIPTYCH FOLDING MIRROR, FIREPLACE, CIRCA 1900
René Lalique (1860-1945)
Pair of wall-lights “Epis de blé”, circa 1908
Gilt bronze and moulded glass
65 x 43 cm.
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, n. 20, 1908, p. 54
Hector Guimard (1867-1942)
Triptych folding mirror, circa 1900
Gilt bronze with a vegetal relief decoration
The original drawing is in the archives of the Cercle Guimard, Paris
78.7 cm. high
102.5 cm. wide
Fireplace and surrounds, circa 1900
White marble and black painted cast iron
The fire-surround signed Hector Guimard lower right
137 cm. wide
112 cm. high
35 cm. deep
Bibliography
Guimard, Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Lyon, musée des arts décoratifs et des tissus, 1992-1993, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1992,
ill. p. 68
Provenance
Apartment located in one of the buildings designed by Hector Guimard rue La Fontaine, 16th Arrondissement, Paris
EDGAR BRANDT – DAUM NANCY – “TENTATION” FLOOR LAMP, CIRCA 1925
“TENTATION” FLOOR LAMP, CIRCA 1925
Patinated bronze and inverted bell-shaped thick glass with gold leaf; the base in marble
The base stamped E.BRANDT and the shade signed Daum Nancy with the Cross of Lorraine
184.5 cm. high
With original in situ photographs dated 1929
Special commission, probably unique
Bibliography
Edgar Brandt catalogue, circa 1926, for an illustration of the standard model with different base and shade
MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – ANDRE-FERNAND THESMAR – POWDER COMPACT, 1895
POWDER COMPACT, 1895
Polychrome enamel; gold mounted on a Sèvres porcelain. Inside the cotton is decorated with an enamelled ladybug on a gold bud
Signed with the monogram and bearing the inscription: Faite pour Antonia Howard Trip 1895. The three initials of the client
are entangled in the decor
6.7 cm. diameter
The same decor is found on a small box exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900