“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, CIRCA 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.
“PETITES NYMPHES”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed and bearing the foundry seal EUG. BLOT / B. DE LA MADELEINE / PARIS
30 cm. high
Exhibition
Darmstadt Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst 1901-1976, Die Künstler der Mathildenhöhe,
22 October 1976-30 January 1977, ill. vol. 4, p. 103, n. 328 in the exhibition catalogue
(collection Barlach-Heuer, Paris)
Bibliography
La Maison Moderne, Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle, nd,
Edition de la Maison Moderne, ill. p. 11, n. 3423-1
Laurence Buffet-Challié, Le Modern Style, Baschet & Cie éditeurs, nd, ill. p. 50, n. 2
“LA MORT” (DEATH), CIRCA 1893-1894
Patinated bronze sculpture
Signed
Height: 55 cm.
Exhibition Intérieurs 2011 – L’Art de vivre avec l’art, Artcurial, Paris, 8-22 September 2011,
exhibited on the booth of Mrs Roxane Rodriguez
Bibliography L’Art Décoratif, April 1901, ill. p. 8 (Detail in glossy earthenware) Art et Décoration, April 1904, ill. p. 121 Catalogue des Objets d’Art Moderne faisant partie de la Collection Roger Marx, p. 23,
n. 132 for an example in glossy terracotta
Musée des Arts décoratifs, inv.27961: “Ce buste en terre cuite polychrome appartient sans doute à un projet de décor inachevé. Le visage hiératique de La Mort est rehaussé de touches verdâtres sur les paupières et les lèvres, évoquant le bleuissement d’une noyée et accentuant l’étrangeté de l’œuvre. Cette iconographie unique dans son œuvre montre une nouvelle fois l’influence du courant symboliste dont la mort est une thématique centrale”
There is also an example of just the bust in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs:
Titre : La mort
Dénomination : buste de femme
Date : 1895
Dimensions : H : 17 cm ; L : 15,4 cm ; P : 8 cm
Inscriptions – marques : aucune
Lieu de conservation : Paris, musée des arts décoratifs (inv.27961)
Matériaux : terre cuite lustrée avec rehauts de couleur verte sur la bouche et les yeux
Historique : don de Louis Massignon et de sa soeur en souvenir de leur mère, entrée le 12 novembre 1931
“GRAND VASE TROIS FIGURES”, DESIGNED IN 1914, EXECUTED IN 1914-1919
Model n. 59, translucent and partly coloured pâte-de-verre, decorated with three relief
moulded medallions, each featuring a women set in profile
Stamped with artist circular mark
Height: 22.5 cm.
Exhibition
Véronique Ayroles, François Decorchemont Maître de la pâte de verre, éditions Norma, 2006,
ill. p. 65 and 239 for the design
Four examples of this model were executed and only one other severely damaged has appeared in auction in 2016
Presently on loan to the Musée du Verre François Décorchemont, in Conches-en-Ouches
