PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – “GUENON”, CIRCA 1900
“GUENON”, CIRCA 1900
Grès with a green and white glaze
17.5 cm. high
18.5 cm wide
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ALEXIS BOISSONNET – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Grès
Signed
22.5 cm. high
GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE – “LA MORT”, BEFORE 1910
“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
ERNEST BUSSIERE – KELLER & GUERIN – “MARRON” JUG, 1903
“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
ALPHONSE DEBAIN – PAIR OF CUPS AND SAUCERS, CIRCA 1900
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
BING & GRONDAHL – CATHINCA OLSEN – F. AUGUSTE HALLIN – PAIR OF VASES, 1892-1902
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
NILS LUNDSTRÖM – RORSTRAND PORSLINFABRIKER AB – OPENWORK VASE, CIRCA 1900
OPENWORK VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain
Bearing the monogram of the artist, incised 80031 EG
15.3 cm. high
BING & GRONDAHL – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp, signed AM
24.5 cm. high
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
“LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
115 x 144 cm.
LOETZ – ALPHONSE DEBAIN – LA MAISON MODERNE – VASE, CIRCA 1899
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
HENRI HUSSON – “SENECON” VASE, 1905
“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
LUCIEN BONVALLET – ANTOINE-ERNEST CARDEILHAC – “CHARDONS” TEA, COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE, CIRCA 1895
“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
JOSEPH ET PIERRE MOUGIN – “QUI S’Y FROTTE, S’Y PIQUE” PLANTER, 1909
“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
LOUIS MAJORELLE – “POINCARE” FLOOR LAMP, VERY RARE, CIRCA 1910
“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
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
“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”.
EMILE GALLE – “LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
“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
RENE LALIQUE – “SERPENT” DESK MAGNIFYING GLASS, CIRCA 1900
“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
LOUIS-AUGUSTE THEODORE-RIVIERE – “LES DEUX DOULEURS”, CIRCA 1910
“LES DEUX DOULEURS”, CIRCA 1910
Bronze with a black patina
Signed and bears the foundry mark of Susse Frères
Smaller version of the plaster cast of 1904
31 cm. high
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie … son oeuvre, nd, the plaster cast ill. n. 126
EMILE GALLE – VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
Flattened glass with intercalary inclusions, decor in marquetry finely wheel carved
Signed
22 cm. high
Bibliography
Richard Dennis, The Glass of Emile Gallé, Antiques International, London 1967, p. 189, pl. 17
EMILE GALLE – COLOQUINTE VASE, CIRCA 1900
COLOQUINTE VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with inclusions, decoration of waterlilies in marquetry and chased
Signed
25 cm. high
DAUM NANCY – VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910
VASE “CINERAIRES”, CIRCA 1910
Clear glass with white, yellow and blue inclusions
The flowers and leaves are acid-etched and wheel carved
Signed
40.5 cm. high
Bibliography
Clotilde Bacri, Daum, Michel Aveline éditeur, 1992, ill. p. 68
JULES DESBOIS – MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
In sculpted and patinated wood; with its box in sculpted and patinated wood
The mirror and the box signed
Mirror: 39 x 14,6 cm.
Box: 43 x 18 cm.
THEODORE DECK – PLATE, CIRCA 1900
PLATE, CIRCA 1900
Polychrome cloisonné enamel decorated with dragonflies and a vegetal decor
Signed
50 cm.
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 128
MARCEL GOUPY – VASES, CIRCA 1920
VASES, CIRCA 1920
Baluster vase with small flaring neck, mottled blue glass decorated with three pairs of magpies on branches and several dragonflies in polychrome enamel
Signed underneath
27 cm. high
Large baluster vase in clear glass decorated with four birds and stylized flowerheads in polychrome enamel outlined in black
Signed in enamel
22.5 cm. high
Baluster vase in clear glass decorated with three pairs of parakeets against a stylized pattern of berries branches in polychrome enamel
Signed
21.5 cm.