CHRISTOFLE & CIE – MAISON BACCARAT – “SWANS” SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS, AFTER 1901
“SWANS” SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS, AFTER 1901
Gilt metal and Baccarat crystal
Each stamped CHRISTOFLE, one numbered 1964008 and the other 2012839
11 x 13.5 cm.
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“SWANS” SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS, AFTER 1901
Gilt metal and Baccarat crystal
Each stamped CHRISTOFLE, one numbered 1964008 and the other 2012839
11 x 13.5 cm.
PLANT STAND, CIRCA 1900
Wrought iron
69 cm. high
92 cm. wide
The vase is sold separately
Bibliography
Karin Blanc, Ferronnerie en Europe au XXème siècle, éditions Monelle Hayot, 2015, ill. p. 195
UNIKAT VASE, CIRCA 1905
Decorated with flowers and water lilies
Bearing the monogram of the artist and numbered 464
38 cm. high
A MUSIC CABINET, 1900
Chery wood; the figures in carved orange wood
170.5 cm. high
68 cm. wide
Bibliography
Meubles de style moderne à l’Exposition Universelle de 1900, Sections française et étrangères, published under
the direction of Th. Lambert, architect, Charles Schmidt editor, Paris, nd. ill. pl. 39, fig. 7
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Paris, section de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts et des Sciences industrielles, Toulouse
“ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, 1903
Bronze with a green patina; on a streaked green marble stepped base
33 cm. high
Exibition
Art de l’Ivoire, 1903, Musée Galliéra
Salon de la Société des Artistes français, 1905, Arts Décoratifs section, n. 5017 for the sculpture in ivory owned by the Ville de Paris
Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne, Palais Galliéra, 1914, n. 379
Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor,
Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, 1924-1925, for the example in bronze exhibited under n. 197
Bibliography
Maurice Rheims, The flowering of Art Nouveau, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, n.d., the example in ivory ill. p. 203, n. 250
L’Estampille, March 1983, p. 63, n. 155 for the original example in plaster coming from the
estate of Théodore Rivière, and described as “Adam et Eve enlacés, le visage de l’homme enfoui dans le creux de l’épaule de sa compagne qui, angoissée, regarde le ciel…”.
Mrs Alma de Bretteville Spreckels donated an example in bronze of this sculpture to the
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, inv. 1937-8-6, 1948, which is
now in the collections of the Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, Washington, USA, inv.:14-19.
An example in ivory was acquired by the Ville de Paris for the collections of the Musée Galliéra, 1906. It is now at the Petit
Palais, Paris, inv. O.GAL.12.
No other examples are known to exist.
“CROCUS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Mottled and hammered glass vase with purple inclusions
The flowers are padded and carved
Signed
30 cm. high
“LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze and marble sculpture with
polychrome highlights; the scarab in sodalite; the base in green marble
Signed E. Barrias, and with foundry mark Susse Frères éditeurs, Paris
58 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle of 1900, an example with two patinas illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,
Liège, 1903
Bibliography
Illustrated in the Susse Frères catalogues,
1905 and 1910
Les bronzes du XIXème, P. Kjellberg, Éd. de l'amateur 2005, p.50
Bronzes Sculptors & founders 1800-1950, H. Berman, Abage publishers, 1977 tome 3 n. 1387 p. 375
“DANSE” OR “FEMME NUE A L’ÉCHARPE”, 1906
Bronze sculpture; lost wax cast by Hébrard
Signed
34.3 cm. high
A similar example in terracotta at the musée d’Orsay, inv. n. RF3199
Model in plaster and tissue, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Exhibition
1914, Musée Galliéra, Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne
Bibliography
Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, similar example in terracotta illustrated p. 142, n. RF3199
Breaking the Mold-Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, Edited by Phillip Dennis Cate,
published by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, ill. p. 67, n°140,
October 23, 2005-March 12, 2006
TABLE LAMP, CIRCA 1909
Wrought iron; the original shade in carved horn
Signed
53 cm. high
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, 1909
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Salons de 1909, Librairie d’Art Décoratif, Armand Guérinet éditor, ill. pl. 35-36
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
VASE “PRUNELIER DU JAPON”, CIRCA 1910
Multilayered glass, decorated with acid-etched and wheel-carved Japanese blackthorns
Wheel-carved signature
44.5 cm. high
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
CIGARETTE CASE, CIRCA 1900
Silver and gold
Interior in wood with a removable partition
With maker’s mark, eagle’s head, marked Vever and numbered 114
13 x 9 x 4.6 cm.
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Glazed grès
Signed and numbered 324
38.5 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès
Signed K G Lunéville underneath and numbered 50
27 cm. high
“CATKINS” VASE, CIRCA 1902
Bronze
Signed E. Wahlström DEC, R XI, marked HUGO ELMQVIST and with foundry mark HE
33.8 cm. high
“CATKINS” VASE, CIRCA 1902
Bronze with a brown patina
Marked HE-T AB E, Gj-metod, Stockholm, DEC. G. Backlund
Bearing the foundry mark HE
11.5 cm. high
“POPPIES AND BUTTERFLIES” VASE, 1902
Bronze with a brown patina, decor in relief
Marked HE-T
39.3 cm. high
“L’APPARITION”
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
55 x 46 cm.
“FEMME SOURIANTE” PLANTER, 1902
Bronze with a brown patina heightened in green
Signed, dated Salon 1902 and titled Femme souriante
44.5 x 51 x 14 cm
Exhibition
Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1902
“PERIANTHE” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Earthenware vase decorated with low-fired glazes
Signed underneath KG / Lunéville / Bussière and numbered 3 B
14 cm. high
Exhibition
Exhibition at the Ecole de Nancy, Paris, 1903
Atlanta Nancy, Céramique Lorraine : chefs d’oeuvre des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Atlanta High Museum of Art, 1990-1991;
Nancy, Musée Historique Lorrain, 1991, cat. n. 216
L’Ecole de Nancy, 1889-1909 : Art Nouveau et industries d’Art, Nancy, Galerie Poirel, 1999, cat. n. 21
Metz Nancy, Nancy Metz : une histoire de frontière 1861-1909, Metz, musée de la Cour d’Or, 1999-2000, cat. n. 231 and 232
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Céramiques végétales / Ernest Bussière et l’art nouveau, 21 June-2 September 2000, cat. n. 64, 65 and 66,
illustrated on the cover
Bibliography
La Lorraine Artiste, L’Ecole de Nancy à Paris, Emile Gallé, 15 March 1903, ill. p. 86
Annabelle Hery, La faïencerie de Lunéville 1786-1923 : les Keller et Guérin, Vesoul, 1999, p. 103
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 84
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Stoneware
Silver mount with silversmith and French Minerva marks
24 cm. high
BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Iridescent glass; the silver mount by Alphonse Debain
The base signed Escalier De crystal and bearing the French Minerva mark and silversmith mark
11.5 cm. high
11 cm. diameter
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