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EMILE GALLE – PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868

PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868
Earthenware, painted in monochrome blue in the “grand feu” technique over a white tin-glaze, with shaped rims, comprising:
19 dinner plates
10 dessert plates
10 soup plates
2 sauce dishes
1 soup tureen
2 oval serving dishes
2 serving dishes

Signed with the Lorraine Cross monogram and/or signed Émile Gallé Fecit.

Exhibition
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, for two cups with the same border, p. 104

Bibliography
Marc Bascou – Marie-Madeleine Massé – Philippe Thiébaut, Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1988, ill. of a plate held by the Musée d’Orsay
Le Tacon & Valk, Émile Gallé, L’amour de la fleur, Nancy, 2008, p. 318
Philippe Thiebaut, entry in Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d’Orsay, 1980–1983, Paris, 1983, plates and fish serving dish, n. 414–417, pp. 98–99
Françoise Charpentier, Philippe Husson, Bernard Ponton, Musée de l’École de Nancy. La céramique de Gallé, Nancy, 1984, cups listed under n. 4, p. 83
[Collective – Exhibition catalogue, curated by Philippe Thiébaut and Monique Nonne], Gallé, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1985–1986, RMN, pp. 92–93 and 104

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ALBERT DAMMOUSE – ERNEST-EMILE CHAPLET – HAVILAND & CIE – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Large stoneware vase decorated with stylized foliage and flowers, heightened with gilt
From the Rue Blomet period, after 1882
Signed with the incised H&C rosary mark, numbered 5, marked R,B,3,1
Height: 41 cm.

Bibliography
An identical vase decorated with swallows and honeysuckle is illustrated in Marc Ducret, Ernest Chaplet, la révolution du Rouge de Cuivre, Éditions Louvre Victoire, 2021, p. 81.

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RENE BUTHAUD – VASE, 1924

VASE, 1924
High-fired ceramic, pear-shaped vase on a small foot, decorated in gray and green with copper-colored highlights, depicting two reclining nude women among foliage
Signed underneath with interlaced R & B

Exhibition
René Buthaud, musée des Arts décoratifs de Bordeaux, 1976, n.48 in the exhibition catalogue
René Buthaud Exhibition, Maison Gérard, New York, 1987

Bibliography
Gironde -Magazine, December 1987
Cruège, Pierre: René Buthaud, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, 1996, illustrated in full-page color, n. 129

Provenance
Former collections:
René Buthaud
Michel Fortain

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PIERRE-FELIX FIX-MASSEAU – SIOT-DECAUVILLE – “LE SECRET”, CIRCA 1900

“LE SECRET”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed, with foundry mark and numbered S291
The base in wood bearing the inscription Les artistes du théātre Michel / à leur ami et régisseur / Charles Maudru / 1893-1907
62.2 cm. high

Bibliography
L'Art Décoratif, March 1900, ill. p. 230
“L'année suivante (1894), il s'essaye à une oeuvre de dimension importante : La Maquette du Monument de Joséphin Soulary et à trois statuettes : sculpture monumentale et sculpture intime. Jamais du reste Fix-Masseau ne se dépassera lui-même dans sa compréhension si délicate de la statuette telle qu'elle nous apparaīt en des oeuvres comme l'Eve des Rèves, Le Secret et la Folle du Sonnet, cette dernière vivante et vibrante, les cheveux au vent, emportée par l'ardeur de sa course. Le Secret au contraire montre une sorte de mysticisme que nous retrouverons souvent chez lui. Notons en même temps, en admirant l'allongement de ce corps de femme en partie dissimulé par la draperie, que M. Fix-Masseau interprète largement la nature, mais ne la déforme jamais”.
Maurice Rheims, The Flowering of Art Nouveau, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, N.Y., n.d.
ill. p. 203, n. 251
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999,
ill. p. 76, n. 66

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CARLO BUGATTI – ADRIEN-AURELIEN HEBRARD – FOOTED BOWL

FOOTED BOWL
Silver, decorated with stylized insects
Signed. With Minerva and silversmith’s marks
Height: 17.5 cm
Diameter: 30 cm
Weight: 2.850 kg

This is probably the “High Dessert Bowl” exhibited at Hébrard in 1907

Bibliography
Philippe Dejean, Bugatti, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1981, illustrated p. 97
Bugatti: les meubles / Bugatti: les sculptures / Bugatti: les autos, L’État des lieux, Galerie Beaubourg,
Éditions de la Différence, Paris, 1995, illustrated p. 53 (period photograph). This publication
was produced on the occasion of the Bugatti exhibition at Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, Vence, July–September 1995
Catalogue: Exhibition of Silverware by J. Baffier, E. Becker, Carlo Bugatti…, Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, Paris, 2–25 December 1907

SOLD

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LUCIEN BONVALLET – ANTOINE-ERNEST CARDEILHAC – TEA SET, CIRCA 1900

TEA SET, CIRCA 1900
Tête-à-tête silver tea service with a mistletoe decoration, comprising a teapot with a sculpted wooden handle, a sugar bowl, a milk jug, an egg cup and a tray.
With French Minerva mark on the three pieces. Signed CARDEILHAC and bearing the silversmith’s mark, dating to before 1904
Teapot height: 12 cm
Milk jug: 3.5 cm

Rectangular stained and decorated wooden tray. It has a solid silver frame with floral decoration, silver side handles with trefoil motifs, and carved, patinated ivory grips
Pyrographed signature beneath the tray: Cardeilhac Orf. Paris
The silver mount is signed CARDEILHAC and bears the silversmith’s hallmark and the letter N.

Silver egg cup decorated with a mistletoe motif. Signed CARDEILHAC. With French Minerva mark
Height: 4.6 cm

Bibliography
L’Art décoratif, February 1901, page 197, illustration of the “Gui” coffee maker

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Blown and crackled glass with red glass powder inclusions
Height: 17.5 cm
Unsigned. Probably a design by Eugène Rousseau

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – “A TETE DE CHIMERE” VASE, CIRCA 1885

“A TETE DE CHIMERE” VASE, CIRCA 1885
Crackled glass with glass powder inclusions, with applied side motifs depicting chimeras
Height: 20.5 cm.

Unsigned. This model was originally created by Eugène Rousseau, who did not always sign his works. It also exists in a 26 cm version with engraved chimeras and rabbit. (L’Art du verre en France, p. 35)

Bibliography
B. Klesse et H. Mayr, Glas vom Jugendstil bis heute, Sammlung Gertrud und Dr. Karl Funke-Kaiser, Cologne, 1981, p. 333, n. 243
G. Cappa, L’Europe de l’art verrier, des précurseurs de l’art nouveau à l’art actuel, 1850-1990, Liège, 1991, p. 393, n. 702

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – APPERT FRÈRES – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Roller vase in thick, partially opalescent amber glass, decorated with fish and
seaweed deeply wheel-engraved
Signed E. Léveillé and located on the reverse
Height: 10.5 cm.

Bibliography
Vases with similar decoration and technique:
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du Verre en France, Lausanne, 1974, p. 30
Glas des Art Nouveau – Die Sammlung Gerda Koepf, Prestel 1998, page 81, ill. 4

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BAPST ET FALIZE – BEAKER, 1898

BEAKER, 1898
Silver, with repoussé decoration featuring a frieze of stylized vegetal arabesques
Engraved beneath the base with the monogram JFR and dated 20 July 1898
With French Minerva mark and silversmith’s mark
Height: 13 cm.

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JOSEPH ET PIERRE MOUGIN – ALFRED FINOT – “LA SOIF”, MODEL 8.F, CIRCA 1900

“LA SOIF”, MODEL 8.F, CIRCA 1900
Glazed stoneware coloquinte decorated with an incised semi-relief of a kneeling nude woman drinking from the spring. The reverse features the leafy stem of the coloquinte
Signed A. Finot and Mougin Nancy 7205
Height: 19 cm.

Bibliography
La Lorraine Artiste, December 1900, ill. p. 156
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976, exhibition catalogue, p. 275, no. 438
Jacques G. Peiffer, Nancy 1900, Gérard Klopp s.a. éditeur, 1989, ill. p. 211