VASE, CIRCA 1875-1878
Smoky transparent glass tinted light blue in the upper part, with applied irregular tears in blue with an enamelled and wheel carved decor of an insect and a blooming shrub
Signed underneath E. Rousseau Paris
22.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Jules Henrivaux, La verrerie à l’Exposition universelle de 1889, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 10th year, 1889-1890, p. 172:
“Dès 1867, M. Rousseau a commencé à faire fabriquer d’après ses dessins, ses modèles, d’après ses indications, des verres de couleur et des pièces de fantaisie en deux tons non superposés, mais soudés l’un à l’autre, avec lesquels il obtenait des effets absolument nouveaux, “neutres”, des pièces de verre dont la partie supérieure était en verre de couleur tombant en goutte sur le neutre”
VASE, CIRCA 1889
Polychrome “cristallerie” glass decorated with enamelled water lilies, aquatic flowers, stems,
and three dragonflies; original bronze base decorated with four snails
Enamelled signature in Japanese style
17 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase imitating Japanese brush-holder and decorated with anemones and buttercups in inlaid and carved marquetry
Wheel cut signature
18 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1895
Internally decorated blown glass acid-etched,
wheel-carved and hammered, with applied rhododendrons highlighted with gold
Signature in gilded enamel underneath
24 cm. high
Bibliography
Jules Traub, The glass of DésiréChristian ghost for Gallé, 1978, p. 101, pl. 52
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with powder inclusions imitating hard stones
Signed, bearing the monogram of Yvonne Serruys and numbered 606
33 cm. high
Bibliography
“Le maître verrier Despret a eu l’heureuse idée de demander à un sculpteur de talent, Mlle Serruys, les belles formes robustes de ses coupes ; pour leur robe, d’une sourde splendeur, il semble avoir eu la collaboration de la terre et des siècles.” L’Art Décoratif, 1906, p. 182
VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904
Conical shape with circular foot, clear glass with colored powders inclusions, overlaid and cut with foliage and vines, two applied snails
Signed
32.5 cm. high
Bibliography
The Daum firm has the original drawing for this and other vessels with the same decoration.
“THE THREE GRACES”, CIRCA 1925
Monumental pâte de verre pedestal dish after a model by Yvonne Serruys representing the Three Graces holdind up a sea shell with green and orange highlights imitating mother-of-pearl, with the
base showing children blowing conch shells
Signed and numbered 940
40 cm. high
The shell: 31 cm. long
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July-27 October 1996
Bibliography
Gustave Kahn, Le goût moderne, November 1926, pp. 8-11: “Ainsi Mme Yvonne Serruys a donné le modèle d’une coupe haute, à large vasque étendue, exécutée dans les tons blancs du marbre ou la nacrure du coquillage, soutenue par les épaules
de porteurs nus, dont les pieds s’agrippent à un rocher mouvementé, et le verrier a obtenu des épreuves de colorations diverses, distinctes et toutes bien venues”
Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis, publisher, 1996, full page ill. p. 56
“CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Multilayered and parly hammered glass, acid-etched and wheel-carved decor of a bat and poppies
Signed underneath: Emile Gallé fecit.
24.5 cm. high
Exhibition Exposition Emile Gallé et Toulouse-Lautrec / Lumières et couleurs de la Belle Epoque, 1995, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, p. 30 et 31 in the exhibition catalogue, n. 16
Exhibition on Emile Gallé in five museums in Japan between April 2000 and March 2001, ill. p. 57, 58 and 59, n. 19 in the catalogue. Gallé et le Japonisme, 2008, Tokyo-Osaka, n. 62 in the exhibition catalogue Emile Gallé / Nature & Symbolisme / Influences du Japon, Musée Départemental
Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 5 May-30 August 2009, ill. p. 135, n.114 Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 16, 17
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du verre en France 1860-1914, Edita Denoël, 1974, ill. p. 63
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass, etched to simulate the movement of the waves, partly frosted, overlaid with enamel
and wheel-carved with a decor of fishes and aquatic flora
17 cm. high
Exhibition Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 20, 21
SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass with inclusions; with two applied
handles, the decor in marquetry
and chased
Wheel-carved signature
9 cm. high
16 cm. long
“OEILLETS DES INDES”, A RARE VASE, CIRCA 1905
Multilayered glass with yellow and orange inclusions. The stems and leaves are
acid-etched, the flowers are padded and wheel carved
Wheel carved signature
35 cm. high
Bibliography Noël Daum, Daum Maîtres verriers, Edita Denoël, 1980, ill. p. 20
A PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES, CIRCA 1878
Glass, each resting on four applied feet, the necks pulled up to points, alternating with others running down, two large glass cabochons applied to the sides with a Japanese polychrome enamelled design, gilt
Signed
57 cm. high
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass – Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July-27 October 1996
Bibliography Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis, publisher, 1996, p. 11, n. 10
VASE, CIRCA 1899
Iridescent glass with a floral design attributed to Loetz. The mount and the base in silver attributed to Debain.
With French Minerva mark; silversmith mark; Russian import mark 84
These pieces were sold at the Maison Moderne
The mount with two handles can be attributed to Henry Van de Velde
11.3 cm. high
“LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Marquetry and finely wheel-carved glass, the pink surface overlaid with white
and blue flowers and an applied motif of brown branches
Engraved Gallé
20.5 cm. high
No other example of this design is known to exist
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris
Bibliography Gallé, exhibition catalogue, musée du Luxembourg, 29 November-2 February 1986,
éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, ill. p. 54 in the “Les granges” vitrine
VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910
Clear glass with white, yellow and blue inclusions
The flowers and leaves are acid-etched and wheel carved
Signed
40.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Clotilde Bacri, Daum, Michel Aveline éditeur, 1992, ill. p. 68
