IMPRESSIVE TERRACOTTA VASE, 1876-1881
Terracotta vase featuring blooming roses on a dark green background
Bearing the artist’s monogram within the decor and impressed with the manufacturer’s stamp: Haviland & Cie/Limoges/75/2
Height: 31 cm.
Diameter: 32 cm.
Bibliography Emaux atmosphériques : la céramique impressionniste, 26 Avril-4 November 2001, Musée Fournaise and Laurent d’Albis, Chatou, n. 32, Rouen 2010, p.112-113
IMPORTANT “PRIMEVERES” VASE, MODEL N. 4093, CIRCA 1910
Multilayered glass with orange and blue-purple powder inclusions, overlaid in green and etched with primroses and leaves
The flowers in white glass are applied and finely wheel carved
Wheel carved signature
Height: 47 cm
“Vase de Varennes”, 2ème grandeur, 1897
White porcelain with an iridescent glaze; the stopper and mount in bronze with a decor of leaves and waterlilies
Bearing the manufacturer’s triangular stamp for 1906
Height: 20.5 cm.
COVERED POT, CIRCA 1890-1895
Grès covered pot, the base and cover in gilt bronze
Impressed signature “à la grenade éclatée”
Bears a label of L’Escalier de Cristal
Height: 25 cm
“AUTOMNE” RARE VASE, CIRCA 1906
Grès. Baluster shaped with an elongated neck, decorated with a leafy branch in high relief. The glaze, in
the usual manner of the school of Carriès, is applied as a”guilloché” surface in a rotating movement
Handwritten signature under the vase, 623 L and 68467/EB in ink
Height: 45 cm.
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
“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.
“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
COUPE, CIRCA 1900
Enamelled grès with metallic reflections
Central design of a medallion with an ocher female profile
The side of the plate is decorated with blue, green and purple flowers
Signed with the seal and Saint-Lerche
Diameter: 20 cm.
Bibliography
“En Norvège, la note originale est donnée par M. Lerche, qui expose des plats, des vases, des coupes d’une facture très large et très osée, où le décor arrive même parfois à confusion. Mais l’artiste est un chercheur ; des sculptures très nerveusement modelées, des plateaux ou des corbeilles d’étain montrent son activité et son intelligence de l’ornement. Il a même inauguré quelques essais curieux de motifs de décoration céramique, où la fonte de métal s’unit aux incrustations d’émaux”, Alexandre Sandier La Céramique à l’Exposition (de 1900), Art et Décoration, vol. I, 1901, p.54 and p. 55
At the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts of 1910, Hans Stoltenberg Lerche exhibits a plate in ceramic decorated with a head
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 350
DOUBLE SHOULDERED BOTTLE WITH THREE SMALL HANDLES, CIRCA 1885
Porcelain, with a brown-green glaze mottled with blue-purple and green-celadon
Signed with the rosary mark and bearing the monogram H & Cie
Height: 21 cm.
Provenance
Madame Lenoir, granddaughter of the painter Henri Lebasque who was maried to one of Ernest Chaplet’s daughters
