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“LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
Gold, Pâte de verre and enamel
Signed
With its original chain
In its original box
Exhibition
Artistic Luxury-Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 2008-18 January 2009
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 7 February 2009-31 May 2009, ill. p. 108
“HUIT NAIADES” CIRE-PERDUE, CIRCA 1895-1900
Silver
Signed LALIQUE
6 cm. high
16 cm. long
16 cm. wide
Bibliography
For the motif in ivory on a jewel by René Lalique, see the Lalique sale, Sotheby’s New York, 1 December 1995
A centerpiece with a similar motif in silver was donated by Mr and Mrs Gillion Crowet to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in 2006. See Michel Draguet, l’Art Nouveau Retrouvé, Skira/Seuil, Milan, 1999 , p. 85
“SERPENT” DESK MAGNIFYING GLASS, CIRCA 1900
Brown patinated bronze, designed as two coiling snakes holding a citrine cabochon in their fangs
Signed
Possibly unique
No other example known to exist
27 cm. long
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