BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900
Hammered and chased silver with a stylised decor
Signed JS under the base. Bearing the foundry mark A HEBRARD / PARIS. With silversmith mark and silver mark (boar’s head)
14 cm. high; 26.3 cm. diameter
“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
BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1910
The base in chased and melted silver; the lid in openwork gold with a design of a butterfly resting on cabochons flowers in sapphires and pearls
Bearing the monogram of the artist
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Bibliography
Jacob Thage, Danish Jewelry, Komma & Clausens Boger 1990, pp.95 to 101
VASE, CIRCA 1904 Copper decorated with white and yellow cloisonné enamelled daisies on a green background
Silver mount by Edgar Brandt
Bearing the monogram of Ando Jubei
13 cm. high
Jubei’s cloisonné enamels are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert and the Walters Art museums
Bibliography
Robert de Souza, Oeuvres diverses d’Edgar Brandt, L’Art Décoratif, 1904, vol. II, p. 145 for a similar design
SET OF 6 SPOONS, CIRCA 1900
Vermeil with plique-à-jour enamels. Blue enamelled spiral
Two spoons bearing a mark with three crowns
With silver mark
In its fitted case of the jewellere P. A. LIE, Christiania
“LA FUITE DE L’HEURE”, 1898
Unique piece
Sculpted padouk and gilt bronze
Signed three times with the monogram ALMC
83 cm. high
28 cm. long
20 cm. deep
Exhibition La Libre Esthétique, Bruxelles, 1899
Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1899
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
Intertionale Kunstausstellung, Dresde, 1901
Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1905
Exposition d’art français contemporain, Basel, 1906 Les Peintres de la femme, Société artistique de Roubaix-Tourcoing, 1910
Exposition Universelle, Bruxelles, 1910 Alexandre Charpentier, Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2008, n. 86
Bibliography
Julius Meier-Graefe, Horloges et pendules, Art et Décoration, April 1899, p. 7 Alexandre Charpentier, Naturalisme et Art Nouveau, 2008, ill. p. 116 in the exhibition catalogue
“SENECON” VASE, 1905
Repoussé copper with silver inlays decoration; applied with a branch and foliage in chased silver
Engraved signature under the base and bearing the monogram of the artist
16 cm. high
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1905, ill. p. 61, n. 2337 in the exhibition catalogue
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 22 October 1976-30 January 1977, Ein Dokument deutscher Kunst – Darstadt 1901-1976, n. 250
“CHARDONS” TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE, CIRCA 1895
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, cream jug, chocolate whisk, sugar bowl and cover, and sugar tongs
in silver ; samovar, burner, and tray in silver-plated metal ; the handles in stained ivory
Each marked CARDEILHAC PARIS, with Minerva and silversmith marks
The samovar: 38 cm. high
The tray: 67.3 cm. wide
Bibliography
Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigt, Modern Art of Metalwork – Bröhan Museum,
Berlin, 2001, p. 385 (chocolate pot with mistletoe design illustrated)
Between 1894 and 1899, Lucien Bonvallet designed several silverware pieces intended
for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, all decorated with a vegetal pattern such as thistles,
columbines, mistletoe, clovers, etc.
These models were exhibited on the occasion of a retrospective dedicated to Lucien Bonvallet
in January and February 1913, at the Pavillon de Marsan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
PENCIL BOX, CIRCA 1905
Hammered, wrought and engraved copper, gold and silver inlays; decorated in relief with an applied insect on an engraved background of leaves
Signed h husson
21.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm.
“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
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
In sculpted and patinated wood; with its box in sculpted and patinated wood
The mirror and the box signed
Mirror: 39 x 14,6 cm.
Box: 43 x 18 cm.
A RARE SET OF 12 COFFEE SPOONS, CIRCA 1900
Silver gilt; each one with a different stylized floral decor
Bearing the monogram B
Six of the same spoons are part of the collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, ref. 142-9-1964
They were displayed in the exhibition Art Nouveau – 1890-1914, 6 April – 30 July 2000, Victoria & Albert Museum
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris
Bibliography
Roger Marx, La Décoration et les Industries d’Art à l’Exposition Universelle de 1900, Delagrave éditeur, Paris 1901, p. 71 L’Art Décoratif, February 1902, p. 204
Greenhalgh, Paul Ed., Art Nouveau 1890-1914, V&A Publications, London, 2000, ill. p. 235 Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch as a silversmith, London, The Magazine of Art, January 1901, p. 185