MAURICE BOUVAL – “LE SECRET”, CIRCA 1900
“LE SECRET”, CIRCA 1900
Patinated bronze with medal and brown patina. The base in marble
Signed
69 cm. high
With the base: 74 cm. high
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EUGENE FEUILLATRE – VASE “SIX BUTTERFLIES”, CIRCA 1900
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
RORSTRAND PORSLINFABRIKER AB – RUBEN RISING – PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain with a design of pansy. Openwork neck
One is signed and numbered 2069
The other is signed and bears the initials RR
21.5 cm. high
ROYAL COPENHAGEN – CHRISTIAN THOMSEN “CRABES ET ALGUES” VASE, 1901
“CRABES ET ALGUES” VASE, 1901
Shape designed by Christian Thomsen
Decorated by Léon Boll
Marked with the artist’s monogram, bearing the manufacturer's seal and numbered 445/241 and 50
20.3 cm. high
LOUIS MAJORELLE – ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware, stylized vegetal decoration in relief
Signed K.G. Lunéville Bussière
28.5 cm. high
Another example of this model is part of the Collections of the museum of Lunéville, inv. n. C337
Exhibition
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau, musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 43, n. 40 in the catalogue
Bibliography
Buffet-Challié, Laurence, Le Modern Style, Baschet et Cie Editeurs, ill. p. 112, n. 1
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, Editions Serpenoise, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2009, ill. p. 32
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, éditions Norma, 2015, ill. p. 83
EDGAR-WILLIAM BRANDT – LETTER OPENER AND PEN HOLDER, CIRCA 1905
LETTER OPENER AND PEN HOLDER, CIRCA 1905
Hand tooled copper
The letter opener is signed
ERNEST-EMILE CHAPLET – CYLINDRICAL WASTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
CYLINDRICAL WASTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a red glaze
8.2 cm. high
10.5 cm. diameter
PAUL FOLLOT – LA MAISON MODERNE – HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1902
HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1902
Gilt and chased copper with turquoise cabochon
Signed
28 cm. long
Bibliography
Der Modern Stil, Julius Hoffmann junior, A Guérinet, Librairie d'Art Décoratif, volume 4, ill. pl. 76, n.4
Documents sur l'Art Industriel au XXème siècle, édition de La Maison Moderne, Paris, Objets en métal, ill.p. 21, ref. 1072-1
Léopold Diego Sanchez, Paul Follot: un artiste décorateur parisien, AAM Editions, 2020, ill. p. 32
RENE BOIVIN – SPOON, CIRCA 1900
SPOON, CIRCA 1900
Silver with a design of thistles
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
FRENCH – CHAMPAGNE GLASS, CIRCA 1900
CHAMPAGNE GLASS, CIRCA 1900
Silver and clear glass with a design of foliage
With French Minerva mark and bearing the inscription:
A . F .
20 Octobre 1826
20 Octobre 1906
12 cm. high
9.5 cm. diameter
MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD – TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910
TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910
After an ink drawing by Charles Ricketts, R.A titled “Oedipe et le Sphinx”
34 x 24 cm.
HENRI HUSSON – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – BOWL, 1910
BOWL, 1910
Chased and hammered silver, with a relief decoration of leaves and a cockchafer
Signed and bearing the foundry mark A. Hébrard / Paris
5.5 cm. high
23.3 cm. diameter
HENRI HUSSON – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – “SENECON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
“SENECON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze and silver, vegetal shape with an applied insect
Signed H. Husson and A. HEBRARD PARIS and bearing the mark H h in a square
18 cm. high
Exhibition
Exhibition of fifty original works by H. Husson, Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, 8, rue Royale, Paris, number 44
Bibliography
Dominique Forest, Marie-Cécile Forest, La Dinanderie Française 1900-1950, les éditions de l’amateur, Paris, 1995, ill. p. 8
ALBERT DAMMOUSE – IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900
IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Pâte d’émail with a design of roses and foliage
13.5 cm. high
12 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 513
RENE LALIQUE – “LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
“LES TROMPETTES DE LA RENOMMEE” NECKLACE, CIRCA 1900
Gold, Pâte de verre and enamel
Signed
With its original chain
In its original box Sold
Exhibition
Artistic Luxury-Fabergé Tiffany Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 October 2008-18 January 2009
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 7 February 2009-31 May 2009, ill. p. 108
JEAN SERRIÈRE – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD, BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900
BONBONNIERE, CIRCA 1900
Hammered and chased silver with a stylised decor
Signed JS under the base. Bearing the foundry mark A HEBRARD / PARIS. With silversmith mark and silver mark (boar’s head)
14 cm. high; 26.3 cm. diameter
LA MAISON MODERNE – HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
HAND MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
23.5 cm. long
Design probably attributed or in the style of Henry Van de Velde for La maison Moderne
The mirror was made for the German restaurant Konss, designed by the German architect and urban planner Bruno Möhring (1863-1929). On Boulevard des Italiens in Paris, it’s interior decoration was commissioned to La Maison Moderne in 1901. The hand mirror was probably part of a set for the dressing rooms.
JULES HABERT DYS – VASE, CIRCA 1910
VASE, CIRCA 1910
Glass and metal, multilayered yellow orange glass with metal inclusions
Bearing the monogram of the artist JHD
Height: 41.5 cm.
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.
SERAPHIN SOUDBININE – PAUL JEANNENEY – “LA DOULEUR”, 1907
“LA DOULEUR”, 1907
Grès overlaid with green glaze
Signed and dated
35 cm. high
32 cm. wide
19 cm. deep
Bibliography
Marc Ducret and Patricia Montjaret, L’école de Carriès, art céramique à Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
1888-1940, Paris, éditions de l’Amateur, 1997, similar example ill. p. 125
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics / An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, similar example ill. p. 349
RENE LALIQUE – “HUIT NAIADES” CIRE-PERDUE, CIRCA 1895-1900
“HUIT NAIADES” CIRE-PERDUE, CIRCA 1895-1900
Silver
Signed LALIQUE
6 cm. high
16 cm. long
16 cm. wide
Bibliography
For the motif in ivory on a jewel by René Lalique, see the Lalique sale, Sotheby’s New York, 1 December 1995
A centerpiece with a similar motif in silver was donated by Mr and Mrs Gillion Crowet to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in 2006. See Michel Draguet, l’Art Nouveau Retrouvé, Skira/Seuil, Milan, 1999 , p. 85
DAUM NANCY – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Acid-etched, wheel-carved and hammered glass, decorated with dahlias
Engraved signature
18 cm. high
ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – “CHARDON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
“CHARDON” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware
28.5 cm. high
Similar example at the musée de l’Ecole de Nancy
Exhibition
Exposition de la Céramique, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris 1900
Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1903
Nancy 1900 – Jugendstil in Lothringen, Münchner Stadtmuseum, 28 August 1980-6 January 1981,
n. 410, n. 67
Céramiques végétales – Ernest Bussière et l’Art Nouveau, musée de l’Ecole de Nancy,
21 June-25 September 2000, ill. p. 46, n. 48
Bibliography
La Lorraine, July 1900, ill. p. 27
Der Moderne Stil, volume 4, Julius Hoffmann junior, ill. pl. 50
Klopp, Gérard, Nancy 1900 – Rayonnement de l’Art Nouveau, 1991, n. 217
Jean-Paul Midant, L’Art Nouveau en France, L’Aventurine, Paris, 1999, ill. p. 35