ALEXANDRE SANDIER (1843-1916), form designer
HENRI-LOUIS-LAURENT ULRICH, decorator
LÉONARD GEBLEUX (1861-1930), decor designer
“Vase de Montchanin”, 1896
White porcelain glazed blue with a stylized floral pattern
Bearing the manufacturer’s oval stamp for 1899
23 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900
ALEXANDRE SANDIER (1843-1916), form designer
DENIS LIGUÉ (active at Sèvres between 1881 and 1911), decorator
“Vase de Monchanin”, 1896
White porcelain glazed polychrome with a floral pattern
Bearing the triangular manufacturer’s stamp for 1900 and decoration mark for 1904
23 cm. high
ALEXANDRE SANDIER (1843-1916), form designer
“Vase de Montchanin”, 1896
White porcelain glazed pink, red and gold with a decor of waterlilies
Bearing the triangular manufacturer’s stamp
23 cm. high
“LA SOURCE TARIE” INKWELL, 1906
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Signed
18 x 25.5 cm.
Exhibition
Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1906, n. 349 (plaster)
Musée d’Orsay, Alexandre Charpentier Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, 22 January-13 April 2008
Bruxelles, musée communal d’Ixelles, 29 May-31 August 2008, ill. p. 167, n. 171
Bibliography
Madeleine Charpentier-Darcy, Introduction à l’art d’Alexandre Charpentier. Catalogue sommaire de l’oeuvre (sculpture – art décoratif)”, Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’art français, année 1996, published in 1997, Sc 29, p. 219
“ALENCON” PAIR OF VASES, 1902
Flamed porcelain, on a dark purple background enhanced with color with green crystallization in the manner of Chinese effect.
Marked PN (for pâte nouvelle) and bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1902
Height: 43 cm.
Diameter: 18 cm.
BEAKER, 1898
Chased and repoussé silver, silver gilt, pearls
Stamped Michelsen / Danish mark / 98 / O M / V W / SG ( for assay master Simon Groth) / H. Slott-Möller / del. / 1898
Height: 16 cm.
Anton Michelsen (1809-77) opened his first shop in Denmark in 1841. For several generations, he was the leading firm of gold and silversmiths, with significant influence on Danish jewelry design during the 19th and early 20th century. A Michelsen was among the first and the last to work in the Old Nordic style.
More widely known as a painter, Harald Sløtt-Moller worked for the Anton Michelsen Silversmithy during the Skønvirke period of design, circa 1880-1920. Skønvirke was the Danish equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts, German Jugendstil and French Art Nouveau movements. Sløtt-Mollers pieces, as evident in the offered lot, were influenced by the Japonisme style which grew in popularity following Japan’s exhibition at the Paris World’s Fair in 1867.
A relatable example of this model is in the permanent collection of the Musée d’Orsay, accession no. OAO 1297, and a teapot by the designer, also in the Japonisme style, is in the collection of the Design Museum, Denmark, accession no. 11a-b/1991.
WALL FOUNTAIN, CIRCA 1900
Brown and blue enameled stoneware wall fountain designed in high relief as a man’s head, a naiad and fishes
Signed with the manufacturer’s stamp Emile Muller à Ivry
64 x 26 x 21.5 cm.
HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome enamel on copper, bronze mount. The handle is enamelled on both side
Signed by both artists
The mount in chiseled bronze by the maison parisienne Henri Cognet & Cie.
24 cm. long
“CIGALIERE” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Faience
Signed EG and Emile Gallé à Nancy Déposé
Height: 31 cm
Similar model (without the dotted lines) at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart
Exhibition Nancy 1900 – Jugendstil in Lothringen, 1980, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, ill. p. 214, n. 148 Gallé, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, édition de la RMN, 1985, p. 122 for a discussion on a planter with the same decor in the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy collection
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics, An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 171
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Red-brown enamelled grès with ocher streaks. The handle featuring a flower stem
Signed Théo PERROT, and numbered 87 incised under the base
Height: 15.5 cm.
ROLL-SHAPED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Terracotta decorated with barbotine
Floral design of Japanese composition executed by Albert-Louis Dammouse; impressionist technique by Ernest Chaplet excecuted in the Haviland workshop, Auteuil
Bearing the artist’s seal, label from the Roger Marx’s collection and an other old label A la paix …avenue de l’opéra on the reverse
Height: 33.5 cm.
Bibliography Europäiche Keramik der Jugendstilzeit, Art Nouveau Modern Style, exhibition catalogue,
Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf (Allemagne), 1974, p. 50, n. 40 for a similar vase
Félix Marcilhac, Art nouveau 1900, éd. Ouest-France, 1981, ill. p. 25
Anne Lajoix, La céramique en France 1925-1947, éd. Sous le Vent, Paris, 1983, ill. p. 11
IMPORTANT PLATE, 1903
Enamelled design of three blooming red flowers on a green background highlighted with purple, red, green and brown foliage
Stamped A.Dammouse – S
Diameter: 42 cm.
“LA DOULEUR”, 1908
Grès. Signed by both artists, dated 1908 and located Château de St Amand.
Height: 35 cm.
Exhibition
Marc Ducret and Patricia Montjaret, L’école de Carriès, art céramique à Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye 1888-1940, Paris, éditions de l’Amateur, 1997, similar example ill. p. 125
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, similar example ill. p. 349
“PETALES” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès
Height: 27 cm
Very rare model, especially since it is known as made by Keller & Guérin, an example of which is in the collections of the Ecole de Nancy museum (inv. AD 326)
Exhibition Exposition de l'Ecole de Nancy, Paris, 1903 (Model realized by par Keller & Guérin)
Céramiques végétales / Ernest Bussière et l'art nouveau, musée de l'école de Nancy,
21 June – 25 September 2000, n. 60 ill. p. 51
