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SET OF 6 SPOONS, CIRCA 1900
Vermeil with plique-à-jour enamels. Blue enamelled spiral
Two spoons bearing a mark with three crowns
With silver mark
Weight: 104 g.
In its fitted case of the jeweller P. A. LIE, Christiania
Christiania became Oslo in 1906
PLANTER, 1896
Signed
26.7 cm. high
26 cm. diameter
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with grey and blue glaze with a design of a woman
Signed
22 cm. high
PAIR OF BALUSTER VASES, CIRCA 1870
Porcelain green celadon with crackled background. The neck is decorated with two small handles
The mount in gilt bronze with a design of garland wreath; bronze base
Bearing the original label: Maison Alph. GIROUX, F. DUVINAGE et A. HARINKOUK Fournisseur de LL MM l'Empereur et l'Impératrice…
70 cm. high
28 cm. wide
24 cm. deep
“LE SOMMEIL DE LA VIERGE”, 1901
Patinated terracotta
Titled on the base and signed
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1901 (for the model in marble)
“YOUNG BEAUTY WEARING ART NOUVEAU JEWELS”, 1904
Oil on board lined with canvas
Signed lower left and dated (19)04
50 x 36 cm.
WALL PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Aquatic design with a decor of algae and crab. In the center, a woman’s head wearing a helmet in the shape of a shell
The glaze is slightly glossed in purple and green and partially gilded
Signed KG
37 cm. diameter
“GUENON”, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a green and white glaze
17.5 cm. high
18.5 cm wide
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Grès
Signed
22.5 cm. high
“LA MORT”, BEFORE 1910
Watercolour
This is the watercolour that was used to illustrate Charles Baudelaire’s famous book Les Fleurs du Mal, engraved by Eugène Decisy and titled La Mort
“MARRON” JUG, 1903
Earthenware decorated with low-fired iridescent glaze heightened in gold
Signed KG / Lunéville / Bussière
14 cm. high
A similar example is to be found at the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, inv. Corbin
Exhibition
Exposition de l’Ecole de Nancy, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1903
Bibliography
Céramiques végétales / Ernest Bussière et l’art nouveau, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 21 June-25 September 2000, n. 35 ill p. 41
PAIR OF CUPS AND SAUCERS, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With maker’s mark and French Minerva mark
The cup: 6 cm. high
The saucer: 16.5 cm. diameter
PAIR OF VASES, 1892-1902
Porcelain with a polychrome design
Shape of F. August Hallin
Both bear the three tower mark
The first numbered 848/58; bears the artist’s initials KK
22 cm. high
The second numbered 1524/58; bears the monogram of Cathinca Olsen
21 cm. high
OPENWORK VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain
Bearing the monogram of the artist, incised 80031 EG
15.3 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp, signed AM
24.5 cm. high
“LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
115 x 144 cm.
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
“SENECON” VASE, 1905
Repoussé red 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
“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
“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
“POINCARE” FLOOR LAMP, VERY RARE, CIRCA 1910
Patinated wrought iron, the shade in alabaster
197 cm. high
Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, Majorelle, Flammarion, 1991, n. 114
“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”.
“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
“SERPENT” DESK MAGNIFYING GLASS, CIRCA 1900
Brown patinated bronze, designed as two coiling snakes holding a citrine cabochon in their fangs
Signed
Possibly unique
No other example known to exist
27 cm. long
