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PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – “PANTHER”, CIRCA 1904-1906

“PANTHER”, CIRCA 1904-1906
Grès enameled in tones of brown, red and blue green
Impressed signature: Les Grands Feux de Dalpayrat

14 cm. high
30.5 long
15.5 cm. large

Bibliography
Horst Makus & al., Adrien Dalpayrat – Céramique française de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche, 1998, catalog n. 115

ANDRE METTHEY – FOUR FROGS GOURD – CIRCA 1900

FOUR FROGS GOURD – CIRCA 1900
Rare grès (neck reduced)
Engraved signature, numbered 27/1 and AC

Height: 23 cm.

Exhibition
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 274

PACO DURRIO (DURRIO DE MADRON FRANCISCO) – “MISTERIO DE LA NOCHE” (MYSTERY OF THE NIGHT), 1900-1905

“MISTERIO DE LA NOCHE” (MYSTERY OF THE NIGHT), 1900-1905
Sang-de-boeuf grès in the shape of a moon profile ending at the base as joined hands
Signed with the monogram of the artist and numbered 1

Height: 18 cm.

A similar work in blue and white enamel is part of the collection of the Fina Arts Museum of Bilbao, inventory number 07/415

Bibliography
La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, Bilbao, vol. VIII, n°80, ill. on the cover and titled “Luna”
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 153

MAURICE DUFRENE – ATELIER DE GLATIGNY – IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900

IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Shouldered baluster vase in grès with green and burgundy drippings at the neck on a white
background, the design attributed to Maurice Dufrêne
Interior with sang-de-boeuf drippings
Signed Glatigny and numbered 277

Height: 40 cm.

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 188

AUGUSTE DELAHERCHE – COVERED POT, CIRCA 1900

COVERED POT, CIRCA 1900
Grès in slate color with brown and green glaze. The lid is openwork and decorated with fruits and stems
Bearing the monogram of the artist on both parts

Diameter of the base (incl. the handles): 39 cm.
Diameter of the lid (incl. the handles): 36 cm.
Height: 22 cm.

EMILE GALLE – TWO COLOCYNTHS RARE VASE, CIRCA 1900

TWO COLOCYNTHS RARE VASE, CIRCA 1900
Japanese inspiration, in faience with a high-fired polychrome design on white glazed cover
The two colocynths have stylized cutouts on the belly, to receive the flowers
Some small scratches, firing cracks and a restored chip at the back
Black enamed signature under the base E. Gallé / Faïencerie de Nancy

Height: 33 cm

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 173

EMILE DECOEUR – BOTTLE, 1904

BOTTLE, 1904
Grès in a vegetal shape and a small handle at the neck
Polychrome enamel in shades of green, brown, blue and sang-de-boeuf
Signed in full and impressed with a trefoil mark
The underside with a label : Collection / Gaston Derys / 10 rue Poussin / Paris

Height: 32 cm.

Exhibition
Art Nouveau Belgium / France, Houston & Chicago, 1976, similar model ill. n°266, page 187

MICHEL CAZIN – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Vase in the shape of a bottle in light beige grès, with a design of a wreath of flowers and leaves
Signed with the monogram of the artist
The base in gilt bronze, with a design of flowers, signed with the initials of the artist

Height: 33 cm

Bibliography
L. de Fourcaud, Les Arts décoratifs au Salon de 1899 / Les objets d’art (II) La Société Nationale, Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1899, page 330 : Michel Cazin offers us a beautiful suite of whitish, reddish and dark vases, decorated with a relief of mistletoe, oak, foliage and woven cords
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics : An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 99

WILLIAM LEE – SAKE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900

SAKE BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Grès overlaid with kaki green glaze, mottled yellow ocher and brown drippings
Signed with the monogram of the artist

Height: 16.5 cm.

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 238

FELIX BRACQUEMOND – HAVILAND & Cie – ROUND PLATE LANDSCAPE, CIRCA 1874-1876

ROUND PLATE LANDSCAPE, CIRCA 1874-1876
Hard-paste porcelain, manufactured at Charles Haviland & Co, in the Auteuil workshop after a design by Félix Bracquemond.
Signed with the B monogram.

Diameter : 50 cm.

Exhibition
La céramique “impressionniste” / Emaux atmosphériques, Musées de la Ville de Rouen, Musée de la Céramique, 2010, similar example ill. pp. 40 & 41 (detail) & page 98, n. 16

FELIX BRACQUEMOND – HAVILAND & Cie – SERVICE PARISIEN, 1876-1878

SERVICE PARISIEN, 1876-1878

Complete series of twelve plates titled as:

Le brouillard
Le combat
Le calme
L’effroi
La lune
La neige
La nuit
L’orage
Plein-soleil
La pluie
Le soleil couchant
Le soleil levant

The complete series is in the collection of the Adrien Dubouché’s museum, ADL 2813 à 2824
A plate is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Acquisition number 23.31/18, gift of Monsieur George Haviland, 1923

Exhibition
La porcelaine de Limoges des origines à 1880, musée de l’Evêché, Limoges, 1949
Chefs d’œuvres de la porcelaine de Limoges, musée du Luxembourg, 30 January – 28 April 1996,
n. 130 of the exhibition catalogue
Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs – Du japonisme à l’Art nouveau, Musée national
Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, puis Deutsches Porzellanmuseum, Selb-Plösberg et Musée départemental de l’Oise, Beauvais, 2005/2006, ill. pp. 92 à 95
Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs – du japonisme à l’Art nouveau,
Musée national Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges, 5 April- 4 July 2005, cat. n°34/1 à 34/12, pp. 86 à 96

Bibliography
Chefs d’œuvres de la porcelaine de Limoges, éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1996, ill. page 217
Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs, éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 2005,
pp. 88 à 96
Paul Arthur French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p.77

JEAN POUYAT – CUP AND SAUCER, CIRCA 1903-1912

CUP AND SAUCER, CIRCA 1903-1912
White porcelain with translucent polychrome enamels heightened with gold and decorated
with a bee and stylized flowers, the saucer with a design of flowering twigs
Marked on the reverse JPL France in chromium green thick pad color, surrounded by two green laurel branches and inscribed in gold Breveté pour la France et l’étranger/Jean Pouyat/Limoges
Extremely rare example of the highest quality of execution

Cup height: 7 cm
Saucer diameter: 13.5 cm

Bibliography
Edith Mannoni, Porcelaine de Limoges, Massin éditeur, nd, p. 104, for a cup and a saucer by Pouyat
Chefs-d’oeuvre de la porcelaine de Limoges, Musée du Luxembourg, 1996, p. 90, for another cup and a saucer by Pouyat

PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès enameled in shade of bronze with sang-de-boeuf glaze
Numbered 258
27.8 cm. high

Our vase is similar to the gourd kept at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology in Besançon, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix ou quand un sculpteur rencontre un céramiste, 24 April – 5 July 1993, n. 31, p. 63

PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN NUN’S COSTUME, 1893

BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN A NUN’S COSTUME, 1893
Grès with red and green glaze
Signed
43 cm. high

This bust would be a posthumous portrait of Eugénie Delacroix, a young cousin of the artist who died prematurely in 1884. The sculptor reportedly used the young woman’s death mask to make the shape of her face.
There are three reduced model (of the plaster model) in enamelled grès, one is at the Musée d’Orsay, signed Voisin-Delacroix

Exhibition
Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1893, n°410 (Now at the musée d’Orsay, inventory number DO 1986-83)
Adrien Dalpayrat (1844-1910) – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, 1998
Fondation Neumann, Gingins, Switzeland
Kreismuseum Zons, Germany
Musée de l’Ile de France, Sceaux, France
Museum voor Sierkunst & Vormgeving, Gent, Belgium

Bibliography
Horst Makus & al.n, Adrien Dalpayrat – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche, 1998, ill. n°123, p. 162

Provenance
Private collection

EDWARD COLONNA – L’ART NOUVEAU BING – GDA LIMOGES – SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904

SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904
Coffee cup and saucer designed by Edward Colonna for L’Art Nouveau Bing
Ivory colored porcelain manufactured by GDA in Limoges, with incised Art Nouveau decoration and a design enameled in celadon and rose
Bearing the Art Nouveau Paris green enameled stamp

Cup height: 5.5 cm.
Diameter of the saucer: 13.5 cm.

Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, April 1901, pp. 12 & 13 : Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton
Art Nouveau Belgium / France, Houston & Chicago, 1976, similar model with a different design,
n. 246, page 178
Chefs-d’œuvre de la porcelaine de Limoges, Musée du Luxembourg, 1996, page 256 : Illustration of a cup and its saucer, Canton model
Edith Mannoni, Porcelaines de Limoges, Massin éditeur, sd., page 90 : Illustration of three pieces from the service Canton
Gabriel Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing – Paris style 1900, Harry N. Abrams, inc., New York, 1986, pp. 197 & 200: Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton