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HENRI HUSSON – “SENECON” VASE, 1905

“SENECON” VASE, 1905
Repoussé copper with silver inlays decoration; applied with a branch and foliage in chased silver
Engraved signature under the base and bearing the monogram of the artist
16 cm. high

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1905, ill. p. 61, n. 2337 in the exhibition catalogue
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 22 October 1976-30 January 1977, Ein Dokument deutscher Kunst – Darstadt 1901-1976, n. 250

LUCIEN BONVALLET – ANTOINE-ERNEST CARDEILHAC – “CHARDONS” TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE, CIRCA 1895

“CHARDONS” TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE, CIRCA 1895
Comprising coffee pot, teapot, cream jug, chocolate whisk, sugar bowl and cover, and sugar tongs
in silver ; samovar, burner, and tray in silver-plated metal ; the handles in stained ivory
Each marked CARDEILHAC PARIS, with Minerva and silversmith marks
The samovar: 38 cm. high
The tray: 67.3 cm. wide

Bibliography
Dedo Von Kerssenbrock-Krosigt, Modern Art of Metalwork – Bröhan Museum,
Berlin, 2001, p. 385 (chocolate pot with mistletoe design illustrated)

Between 1894 and 1899, Lucien Bonvallet designed several silverware pieces intended
for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, all decorated with a vegetal pattern such as thistles,
columbines, mistletoe, clovers, etc.
These models were exhibited on the occasion of a retrospective dedicated to Lucien Bonvallet
in January and February 1913, at the Pavillon de Marsan, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

JOSEPH ET PIERRE MOUGIN – “QUI S’Y FROTTE, S’Y PIQUE” PLANTER, 1909

“QUI S’Y FROTTE, S’Y PIQUE” PLANTER, 1909
Grès with green, yellow, pink, purple and beige glazes
Signed J. Mougin and J. P. Mougin céramistes underneath
Numbered 3144 and Esquisse de J. Mougin
34 cm. high
39 cm. diameter

Exhibition
Exposition Internationale de l’Est de la France, Nancy, 1909

Bibliography
Art et Industrie, January 1912
Catalogue de la maison Mougin, 1914, ill. pl. 1, n. 2

PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”

“L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
Oil on panel
Signed
72 x 67 cm.

This painting depicts the moment in Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal when “The light radiates,
the Graal sets itself ablaze and a dove comes down from the dome above Parsifal.
He refuses to kiss Kundry whom remorseful falls and dies”.

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

LEON BENOUVILLE – TABLE, CIRCA 1901-1902

TABLE, CIRCA 1901-1902
Mahogany, marquetry and brass table with a floral decor in marquetry
91 cm. high
73 cm. wide
52 cm. deep

Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, Fin de siècle masterpieces from the Silverman collection, 1989, similar example ill. p. 118, n. 58

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

THEODORE DECK – PLATE, CIRCA 1900

PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome cloisonné enamel decorated with dragonflies and a vegetal decor
Signed
50 cm.

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 128

EUGENE GRASSET – VEVER – “APPARITIONS” BROOCH, CIRCA 1900

“APPARITIONS” BROOCH, CIRCA 1900
Gold, enamel, ivory and cabochons topaz
Signed; with gold mark and maker’s mark
6 x 4 cm.

Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, groupe XV, classe 95 (now at the Musée d’Orsay), ill. in colour on the cover
of the Decorative Arts catalogue of the Musée d’Orsay
Le Bijou 1900, Hôtel Solvay, Bruxelles, May 1965, n. 83
French Jewellery of the Nineteenth Century, Wartsky, Londres, 13-23 June 2001, ill. in color on the cover of the catalogue
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
6 May-28 August 2006, ill. p. 232, n. 170 in the exhibition catalogue
Eugéne Grasset, 1845-1917. L’art et l’ornement. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 18 March-13 June 2011,
n. 167, ill. p. 149

Bibliography
Maud Ernstyl, Les Bijoux d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, Revue de la Bijouterie, Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie, n. 9, January 1901, ill. p. 152
Henri Vever, La Bijouterie française au XIXème siècle, Paris, 1908, ill. p. 669
International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery 1890-1961, Goldsmith’s Hall, London 1961 n. 352
G. Hughes, Modern Jewelry. An International Survey 1890-1964, London 1964, p. 103, ill. n. 172
Jean Lanllier, Marie-Anne Pini, Fünf Jahrhunderte abendländischer Schmuckkunst, München 1971, ill. p. 205
Victor Arwas, Berthon & Grasset, Academy editions, London, 1978, ill. p. 82
Anne Murray-Robertson, Grasset – Pionnier de l’Art Nouveau, Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1981, ill. p. 90
Les Fouquet, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Flammarion, 1983, ill. p. 20
Vivienne Becker, Art Nouveau Jewelry, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1985, ill. p. 56, ill. n. 62
Michael Koch, Evelyne Possémé & al., Pariser Schmuck Vom Zweiten Kaiserreich zur Belle Epoque, Hirmer Verlag München, 1989, ill. p. 202, n. 123
A. Kenneth Snowman & al., Ma?tres Joailliers, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1990, repr. p. 150
Art Nouveau 1890-1914, V & A publications, 2000, ill. p. 23
Philippe Thiébaut et al., l’ABCdaire du Symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, Flammarion, Paris, 1997, ill. p. 51
Rolende van Strydonck de Burkel, Le Bijou Art Nouveau en Europe, Editions Racine, Bruxelles, 1998, ill. p. 96
Anne Murray-Robertson, Eugène Grasset – Un certain regard de la femme, 1998, ill. p. 50
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 259, n. 261

JOE DESCOMPS – LEON GARIOD – GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900

GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
Bearing the monogram of the artist
With eagle’s head and maker’s mark

Bibliography
We can compare this pendant to a pendant exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901 and ill. in l’ Art Décoratif, July 1901, p. 142
Mario Amaya, Art Nouveau, Studio Vista Limited, 1966, ill. p. 113
Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, Jugendstil schmuck – Die europäischen Zentren – Von 1895 bis 1915, Wilhem Heyne Verlag, München, 1998, similar example ill. p. 57
Imperishable Beauty – Art Nouveau Jewelry, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, ill. p. 140, (Collection Sataloff)