DORVAL, enameller – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Copper, polychrome enamel decor of an elegant and flowers on a landscape background
Signed Dorval in the decor
Height: 20 cm.
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VASE, CIRCA 1900
Copper, polychrome enamel decor of an elegant and flowers on a landscape background
Signed Dorval in the decor
Height: 20 cm.
HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome enamel on copper, bronze mount. The handle is enamelled on both side
Signed by both artists
The mount in chiseled bronze by the maison parisienne Henri Cognet & Cie.
24 cm. long
“ARTICHAUT FLEURI” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Copper and translucent enamel. The lower part is decorated with green enamel artichoke leaves highlighted with gold. The upper part is decorated with pink enamel.
Signed.
9 cm. high
Identical model at the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Berlin, acquired at the Exposition Universelle in 1900.
Another identical model in the musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris inv. n°10751.
Together with an advertising label illustrating the piece.
Bibliography
L’Art décoratif moderne, June 1898, Les objets d’art aux salons, Arthur Maillet, ill. page 133.
L’Art décoratif, January 1901, ill. page 166.
Wolfgang Scheffler, Werke um 1900, Kunstgewerbe Museum Berlin, 1966, ill. page 28, n° 29 in the exhibition catalogue.
Sotheby’s Parke Bernet Monaco S.A., 23 juin 1979, lot n°325, identical model in green enamel, the upper part in pale blue and mauve.
Exhibition
Salon de 1898.
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century, Wartski, Londres, 13 – 23 June 2001, n°194 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 42.
SMALL PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Repoussé copper with a polychrome enameled design of a sand thistle with white petals.The heart is opalised
Decor of green leaves on a red background
16 cm. diameter
“BACCHUS”, 1885-1889
Plate, enamel on copper
Signed on the reserve in gold: Bapst et Falize Dixit and L. Hirtz.
18 cm. diameter
Lucien Hirtz started to work as a “artiste décorateur” for Bapst et Falize in 1885 then joined the firm of Boucheron in 1893 where he remained until 1925.
The Stieglitz Museum in St. Petersburg has two other plates by Hirtz for Bapst et Falize.
His works are in several museums including the musée d'Orsay, the musée du Petit Palais, the musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges and major private collections.
SMALL CUP, CIRCA 1900
Copper with a polychrome enameled design of violets and leaves
Signed in enamel under the base
4.8 cm. height
8.9 cm. diameter
The Kunstgewerbe Museum de Berlin keeps in its collection an enameled cup decorated with autumn
leaves and berries, signed and located Les-Essarts-Le-Roy. See: Wolfgang Scheffler Werke um 1900,
Kunstgewerbe Museum Berlin, 1966, page 31
SMALL BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1900
Translucent polychrome enamels in light relief with a stylised design of flowers and leaves
Signed Georges-Jean / LES ESSARTS-LE-ROI / S. and O.
11.7 cm. height
“L'ABREUVOIR”, 1893
Enamel on copper
Signed and dated
Plaque: 11.6 x 9 cm.
The frame: 18.3 x 21 cm.
After a painting “peasant watering her cow” by Jean-François Millet which is at the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts (Accession number: 17.1509)
BOWL, CIRCA 1910
Polychrome enamel on copper
Bronze mount by Edgar Brandt decorated with starfishes
Signed
34.5 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome enamel on copper with a design of peacock feathers
Signed Georges Jean and located Les-Issarts-Le-Roy
9.5 cm. high
COVERED BOX, CIRCA 1885
Cloisonné enamel and gold on a soft paste porcelain
Signed in enamel with the artist’s monogram
9 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Sèvres – Élégance du 20ème siècle, Tokyo Metropolitan Tein Art Museum, 2 October-19 December 1993, p. 67, n. 5 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1886, p. 377 and p. 381, Les artistes décorateurs – Fernand Thesmar by Victor Champier, illustration of two other enamelled covered boxes
“L'ENLEVEMENT D'EUROPE”, CIRCA 1880
Enamel on copper
10 x 12.5 cm
After the right hand side of the painting titled “L'enlèvement d'Europe”, circa 1869 by Gustave Moreau and kept at the Musée d'Orsay
Bibliography
The painting illustrated in: Pierre-Louis Mathieu “Gustave Moreau / Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'Oeuvre achevé“, ACR édition, 1998, page 58
VASE “SIX BUTTERFLIES”, CIRCA 1900
Copper, decorated with six highlighted butterflies, small circles and flowering branches
The mount in chased silver with a vegetal decor
Signed
25 cm. high
“FEMME ASSISE”, CIRCA 1900
Plaque in translucent enamels on a gold leaf background
11 x 7 cm.
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
Weight: 104 g.
In its fitted case of the jeweller P. A. LIE, Christiania
Christiania became Oslo in 1906
“PALLAS ATHENA”, 1896
Polychrome enamel on copper
Signed lower left in gold
18.2 x 13.3 cm.
PILLBOX, CIRCA 1900
Sèvres porcelain; the enterlaced letters M, A, R, I and E on the cover in enamel and gilt cloisonné;
the mount in silver gilt
Marked A MARIE THESMAR 1908 in gold letters, and with the artist’s monogram Inside
5 cm. diameter
Bibliography
L’Estampille, L’Objet d’Art, n. 76, January 1994, ill. p. 50
MEDALLION, UNIQUE PIECE, CIRCA 1900
Medallion with the portrait of a woman (by G. Debillemont-Chardon) encircled in a silver mount decorated with plique-à-jour enamels and opal cabochons; the chain in gold
The medallion signed lower right and the mount signed Cte DU SUAU / DE LA CROIX
10.5 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903
Exposition de la Parure précieuse de la Femme, Musée Galliéra, 1908
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1ère exposition, 1903, pl. 253
Exposition de la Parure précieuse de la Femme, Musée Galliéra, Librairie d’Art décoratif, 1908, Armand Guérinet éditeur, pl. 65
Provenance
Marquise de Polignac
POWDER COMPACT, 1895
Polychrome enamel; gold mounted on a Sèvres porcelain. Inside the cotton is decorated with an enamelled ladybug on a gold bud
Signed with the monogram and bearing the inscription: Faite pour Antonia Howard Trip 1895.
Three initials are entangled in the design
6.7 cm. diameter
The same decor is found on a small box exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900
CUP, CIRCA 1900
Openwork white porcelain; polychrome enamelled
The rim, base and the decor are highlighted with gold
Signed with the monogram of the artist
8.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Jugendstil aus Münchener Privatbesitz, Museum Villa Stuck, Münich 1972, n. 47
Provenance
Private collection Prof. Kurt Liebermeister, Munich
BOWL, 1900
Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with plique-à-jour mimosas heightened
with yellow and green enamels
Gilt monogram under the base and 1900 incised
12.5 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
Bibliography
Werke um 1900, Kunstkewerbemuseum, Berlin, 1966, p. 55, n. 71
CUP, CIRCA 1900
Soft-paste porcelain, with a floral motif heightened
by red enamel and relief gold highlights
Gilt monogram under the base
6.7 cm. high
BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Soft-paste porcelain, with a vine motif heightened by enamel,
the rim, the foot and the decor with gold highlights
Gilt monogram under the base
8.5 cm. diameter
PICTURE FRAME, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome translucent enamels, “plique-à-jour”, silver mount
Modern frame
21.5 x 17 cm.