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GEORGES DESPRET – YVONNES SERRUYS – VASE, CIRCA 1900

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

DAUM NANCY – VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904

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.

EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – “CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892

“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

EUGENE MICHEL – VASE, CIRCA 1900

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

Provenance
Leo Kaplan, New York, acquired in 2000

AUGUSTE JEAN – A PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES, CIRCA 1878

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

LOETZ – ALPHONSE DEBAIN – LA MAISON MODERNE – VASE, CIRCA 1899

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

EMILE GALLE – “LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900

“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

EMILE GALLE – VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900

VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
Flattened glass with intercalary inclusions, decor in marquetry finely wheel carved
Signed
22 cm. high

Bibliography
Richard Dennis, The Glass of Emile Gallé, Antiques International, London 1967, p. 189, pl. 17

DAUM NANCY – VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910

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

DAUM NANCY – VASE, CIRCA 1905

VASE, CIRCA 1905
Internally decorated, applied and wheel-carved. The neck is pulled, cut and finished by hand
Signed
33 cm. high

Exhibition
L’Art Nouveau la Révolution décorative, Pinacothèque de Paris, 18 April-8 September 2013, p. 82,
n. 43 in the exhibition catalogue

Bibliography
Clotilde Bacri, Daum, Milan, 1992, ill. p. 127

Provenance
Bought directly from the Daimaru Museum, Japan

EUGENE MICHEL – MAURICE GUERCHET – VASE, CIRCA 1897

VASE, CIRCA 1897
Internally decorated glass, acid-etched and carved
in a floral pattern, with applied water lily and flowers in silver; around the neck, the mount in silver featuring frost
The mount signed M Guerchet
24.5 cm. high

Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, 1897

Bibliography
Art et Décoration
, June 1897, p. 171

DAUM NANCY – AN IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900

AN IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Blown glass vase decorated with mushrooms, oak leaves and pincones
Acid-etched, wheel-etched, carved
Engraved signature
51 cm. high

Exhibition
Takashimaya, exposition itinérante au Japon, 1986, n. 86, ill. p. 19

DAUM NANCY – BOTTLE AND STOPPER, CIRCA 1900

BOTTLE AND STOPPER, CIRCA 1900
Opalescent amber glass bottle decorated with catkins
Deeply acid-etched and carved; three applications on platinum foil including one on
the stopper
Engraved signature
11.5 cm. high