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DAUM NANCY – PAUL RACADOT – CANDY BOX – POSSIBLY UNIQUE, 1925

CANDY BOX – POSSIBLY UNIQUE, 1925
Clear glass with gold foil inclusions overlaid in deep violet and wheel carved with stylized flowers and leaves
Wheel engraved signature
34 cm. diameter

This piece was designed for the 1925 Exposition Universelle
Paul Racadot was the chief engraver at the Daum manufacture

Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts décoratifs, 1925, Grand Palais, Paris

Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, Le verre en France d’Émile Gallé à nos jours, les éditions de l’amateur, 1983, ill. p. 48 on a period drawing (Daum archives) showing one of the display cabinets at the 1925 Exposition Universelle

Provenance
Collection Daum, acquired in 1987

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – HENRI RAPIN – “FONTAINE LUMINEUSE”, 1924-1927

FONTAINE LUMINEUSE, 1924-1927
The shape and decor designed by Henri Rapin, executed by J.-B. Gauvenet
Porcelain, the base in bronze
The top bearing the Sèvres Factory seal S 1924; at the base, a plaque is engraved
AGENCE GENERALE ELLIOTT FISHER A SON CHER VICE-PRESIDENT
F. LECHER SEVRES PARIS NOVEMBRE 1927

App. 134 cm. high without the base

Four fountains are registered in the archives at the Sèvres Factory:
One at the Mobilier National, incomplete (lower part missing)
One at the Sèvres Porcelain Factory, in excellent condition
One in an unknown location, severely damaged
Our example

Exhibition
Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925 (Pavillon de Sèvres)
L’Exposition des porcelaines de Sèvres de style Art Déco, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum,
2 October-19 December 1993, ill. p. 37, n. 30 in the exhibition catalogue

Bibliography
Les œuvres de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, tome V: Le Luminaire, nd, ill. pl. 5, n. 3528
Jean Paul Midant, Sèvres – La Manufacture au XXème siècle, Michel Aveline editor, Paris, 1992,
ill. full page p. 76 (formerly in the Pavillon de Sèvres collection, London, the bronze base missing)

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – ANNE-MARIE FONTAINE – BONBONNIERE, 1922

BONBONNIERE, 1922
Polychrome and gilded porcelain, decorated with stylized branches and flowers
Designed by Dunaime
Decorated by Miss Anne-Marie Fontaine
Bearing manufacture and decoration stamps of 1922
Signed under its base A M Fontaine and the letter J
6 cm. high; 11 cm in diameter

Bibliography
Lechevallier-Chevignard, Georges “La Décoration Moderne à la Manufacture de Sèvres“, Ch. Massin & Cie Editeurs, Paris, s.d. pl.5

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