ARMCHAIR “FLÂNEUSE” N. 43, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted wood
104 x 75 x 90 cm.
Bibliography Documents sur l’Art Industriel au XXe siècle, édition de la Maison Moderne, Paris, ill. p. 16 (Ameublement et Décoration) L’Art Décoratif, January 1903, ill. p. 19
UMBRELLA HANDLE, 1906
Chased silver gilt. Decor in relief of nine heads miming the pain or the terror
The background is decorated with flowers and scarab beetles
Large cut amethyst inserted in the handle
Signed A. LAMBERT / 1906 / BRUXELLES
27.5 cm. high
A “SAFRAN” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Silver gilt and blue enamel
With silversmith marks
21 cm. high
Exhibition Société des Artistes Français, 1899
Exposition Universelle, 1900
Bibliography Paul Vitry, L’Orfèvrerie à l’Exposition, Art et Décoration, December 1900, ill. p. 174 L’Orfèvrerie aux Salons de 1901, Revue de la Bijouterie, de la Joaillerie et de l’Orfèvrerie, August 1901, ill. p. 130
A RARE COVERED PITCHER, CIRCA 1890
Glazed stoneware, thickly overlaid with sang-de-boeuf glaze, the lid in vermeil stylized as a flower
Impressed circular signature A DAMMOUSE S (for Sèvres)
with silversmith and French Minerva marks
18.5 cm. high
A SET OF FOUR PLATES, CIRCA 1900
Enamelled earthenware; butterflies and floral decoration in shades of green,
blue and pink on a pale blue background
Bearing the monogram AD S at the back (Albert Dammouse Sèvres)
24 cm. diameter
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Stoneware
Stamped A DAMMOUSE, with the letter S (for Sèvres)
23 cm. diameter
Bibliography
Paul Arthur French, Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 327
No other similar piece executed by Dammouse is known to exist. Nevetheless we know Alexandre Bigot executed similar works designed by the sculptor Pierre Roche, who collaborated with Dammouse. This piece is probably a result of their collaboration
Grès with a polychrome glaze
Signed by both artists
This vase was most probably displayed at the Exposition Universelle and the Société des Artistes Français in 1900
Bibliography Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill p. 319
Signed A. Finot sc / J.P. Mougin ceram. and numbered 2499
An identical model is part of the collection of the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy
Bibliography:
La Lorraine Artiste, december 1900, ill. p. 156 Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976, p. 275, n°438
Jacques G. Peiffer, Nancy 1900, Gérard Klopp s.a. éditor, 1989, ill. p. 211
Jean-Paul Midant, L’Art Nouveau en France, L’Aventurine, Paris, 1999, ill p. 68
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 281, n°277
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill p. 155
Enamel on copper representing Leda and the Swan, probably after the model by Leonardo da Vinci
Original black wooden frame highlighted with gold
Signed lower right and left and bearing a label Email de A. Garnier – Léda at the back
Polychrome porcelain, gilt bronze mount by Louchet decorated with mistletoe
and glass pearls
Signed C. P. & Co and A. Lamarre The mount is signedLouchet Ceur
Porcelain vase, high-fired decor of ombelliferes on a blue-brown background
Openwork bronze mount
Signed P L and bearing the initials of Alphonse Lamarre
Porcelain decorated with peacock feathers,
the mount in vermeil with the same decor
The mount signed LOUCHET
Exhibition
A variation of this design was displayed in 1901
In 1907 Pillivuyt & Cie. displayed about fifty pieces at l’Exposition de la porcelaine, son décor, sa monture
that was held at Musée Galliéra. The exhibition catalog mentions a silver mounted vase
with the same decor designed by Lamarre and mounted by Louchet (see exhibition catalogue, p. 5).
This is the vase that had already been displayed in 1901 (See The Paris Salons, vol. V, p. 391).
Silver, the clasp formed as two back-to-back snakes
With maker’s and silver marks
Exhibition:
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century – A Loan Exhibition, Wartski,
London, 13-23 June 2001, n. 212 in the catalogue, ill. p. 31
The purse brought success to the artists who were rewarded with the first price
for their designer skills and brilliant composition
Bibliography:
Art et Décoration, August 1907, p. 67 for a description of the purse