LARGE FOOTED COUPE, CIRCA 1907-1910
Patinated copper inlaid and applied with silver flowers and leaves
Bears the artist’s seal and signed by hand underneath H. Husson
Diameter: 30.5 cm.
Height: 7 cm.
“AUBERGINE” COVERED BOX, 1896
Red burgundy enamelled grès shaped like an eggplant. The mount in wrought iron
Signed with the monogram of the artist
28 cm. long
Exhibition Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1897 Cocarde, 22 October 1897 L’Oeuvre de Rupert Carabin, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, 1974, n. 186, ill. p. 227
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Stoneware
Stamped A DAMMOUSE, with the letter S (for Sèvres)
23 cm. diameter
Bibliography
Paul Arthur French, Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 327
No other similar piece executed by Dammouse is known to exist. Nevetheless we know Alexandre Bigot executed similar works designed by the sculptor Pierre Roche, who collaborated with Dammouse. This piece is probably a result of their collaboration
EXCEPTIONAL VASE, CIRCA 1910
Grès, with brown-black painted decoration of three stylised women in the manner of the work of Mackintosh at the Glascow school and the drawings by Hoffman of the Vienna Secession
Application of gold pastilles in relief
Signed H Simmen
Height: 35.5 cm.
Provenance
Collection Marcel Tessier (1934-2024), s.c.p. Antoine Glück et Etienne Mercier, Drouot, Rive-gauche, 16 June 1978, lot n. 160, ill. p. 43 in the exhibition catalogue
“LA SALAMANDRE”, CIRCA 1903
Stoneware overlaid with sang-de-boeuf and beige glaze
Monogrammed AD and S (for Sèvres) and signed in full
20 x 21 x 15 cm.
Identical example inventoried in the collections of the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts
de la ville de Paris
A similar example was part of the Marcel Tessier collection, Les Arts du Feu, Drouot, Mes Glück et Mercier, 16 June 1978, lot 77
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1903 Albert Besnard, Modernités Belle Epoque, Evian, Paris, 2016
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet Editeur, Paris, 1903, ill. pl.1.
Art et Décoration, June 1903, p. 200
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 57
SCULPTURE IN IVORY, CIRCA 1900
Featuring a naked woman holding a garland of flowers on a pyramidal marble base
Height: 23.5 cm
17.5 cm. high for the ivory
SET OF THREE RECTANGULAR PLAQUES, AFTER 1918
Mother-of-pearl, with a design in light relief of women in the antique style
Signed Grandhomme Morel
Height: 8 cm.
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain, with a polychrome country design
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp, numbered 6760/95 and bearing the decorator’s mark
Height: 27 cm
IMPORTANT VASE, 1911
Large grès baluster footed vase decorated with brown and black enamel dotted spiral patterns
Signed. With original handwritten label H° 1 250
Height: 34 cm.
IMPORTANT VASE, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina, decor in light relief of several figures. The handle in the shape of a naked woman
Signed
Height: 51 cm.
Exhibition
SNBA 1895
Bibliography
The Paris Salons, ill. p. 372 (model in pewter)
“SERPENT ENSERRANT UN CRAPAUD”, MODEL OF 1898
Very rare plate in grès
Signed and dated 1900
Tiny old restoration
Diameter : 27 cm
Exhibition
At the Exposition Universelle of 1900, Bigot had his own pavilion entirely made in grès.
He also exhibited afresco of three squares depicting a circle of toads after Halou.
At the end of the exhibition, the entire pavilion
was acquired by the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest
LARGE POT, CIRCA 1904
Patinated copper, precious metal applications and inlay
Edited by A. A. Hébrard, Paris, France
Underside incised H Husson and impressed A HEBRARD/PARIS
26.8 x 32 x 30 cm.