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
EXCEPTIONAL VASE, 1910-1914
Grès, with brown-black painted decoration of three stylised women in the manner of the work of Mackintosh at the Glascow school and the drawings by Hoffman of the Vienna Secession
Application of gold pastilles in relief
Signed H Simmen
Height: 35.5 cm.
Provenance
Collection Marcel Tessier (1934-2024), s.c.p. Antoine Glück et Etienne Mercier, Drouot, Rive-gauche, 16 June 1978, lot n. 160, ill. p. 43 in the exhibition catalogue
“LA SALAMANDRE”, CIRCA 1903
Stoneware overlaid with sang-de-boeuf and beige glaze
Monogrammed AD and S (for Sèvres) and signed in full
20 x 21 x 15 cm.
Identical example inventoried in the collections of the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts
de la ville de Paris
A similar example was part of the Marcel Tessier collection, Les Arts du Feu, Drouot, Mes Glück et Mercier, 16 June 1978, lot 77
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903 Albert Besnard, Modernités Belle Epoque, Evian, Paris, 2016
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet Editeur, Paris, 1903, ill. pl.1.
Art et Décoration, June 1903, p. 200
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 57
“ESCARGOT” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome grès
Signed
Height: 26 cm.
Exhibition
Société des Artistes Français, Paris 1903
Bibliography
“M. Methey, lui, nous montre des pièces absolument réussies. Certaines sont fort belles de colorations, aux tons profonds et puissants. Certaines autres, l’une ornée de grenouilles, et surtout celle ornée d’escargots, ont un aspect un peu rustique tout à fait amusant. C’est là, en somme, un très bon envoi”. M. P.-Verneuil “Les Objets d’Art à la Société des Artistes Français”, Art et Décoration, July 1903, page 229
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain, with a polychrome country design
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp, numbered 6760/95 and bearing the decorator’s mark
Height: 27 cm
IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1911
Large grès baluster footed vase decorated with brown and black enamel dotted spiral patterns
Signed. With original handwritten label H° 1 250
Height: 34 cm.
“SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898
Very rare plate in grès
Signed and dated 1900
Tiny old restoration
Diameter : 27 cm
Exhibition
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Bigot had his own pavilion entirely made in grès.
He also exhibited afresco of three squares depicting a circle of toads after Halou.
At the end of the exhibition, the entire pavilion
was acquired by the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a floral design on a turquoise background with sang-de-boeuf glaze
Signed underneath with the initials and S (For Sèvres)
Height: 11 cm.
“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
SHOULDERED BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a design in pâte d’émail of anemones and white rowan, yellow-green and brown on a red ocher background
Signature with stamp
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
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.
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
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
