VASE, CIRCA 1900
Roll-shaped faience vase with openwork decoration, featuring lateral handles on a decorative band encircling the body.
Height: 23.3 cm.
SMALL SOLIFLORE VASE, 1906
Polychrome enamel on silver, decorated with a beetle on mistletoe branches
Signed in enamel: P. Bonnaud Limoges 1906
With French Minerva mark and silversmith mark BH (for Bouvier and Hammont)
Height: 12,5 cm.
Diameter: 6 cm
BALUSTER VASE, CIRCA 1925
Kaolinic stoneware, glazed in white-gray with yellow crystallizations
Signed Dalpayrat in relief and numbered 1220
Height: 19 cm
Probably made in collaboration with Frédéric Kiefer (1894–1977)
TRAVEL SUITCASE, CIRCA 1930
Red and black leather travel suitcase containing a gentleman’s toiletry set in silver and black lacquer
Signed
59 x 39 x 16.5 cm
“LA GIROFLEE DE MURAILLE”, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with four applied and wheel-carved flowers, gold leaf inclusions, partly hammered
Engraved signature
21 cm. high
Only one other example is known to exist
Provenance
According to previous owners, this vase was acquired at auction in Versailles around 1970 as therefore could be part of a group of vases sold by Emile Gallé’s descendants
PURSE, CIRCA 1907
Buckskin; the mount and clasp in repoussé silver decorated with flowers
The mount signed BAINE and with silversmith mark ES
17 cm. long
Exhibition
Salon d’Automne, 1907
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, November 1907, ill. p. 151
PAIR OF VASES DE SCEAUX, THE SHAPE DESIGNED IN 1896
Form designed by: Marie Louise Poitevin
Decorated by: Alexandre Blanchard (attributed)
Pair of porcelain vases decorated with Japanese camellia in shades of grey and blue, the flowers executed in pâte-sur-pâte
Oval mark S97 and PN (pâte nouvelle) under the glaze.
Height: 35 and 36 cm.
MILK JUG, CIRCA 1900
White porcelain, with an embossed leaf pattern in blue and pink around the neck. Silver lid featuring the same design
Signed on the base
Porcelain made by Louis Lourioux, Foëcy
With silvesmith mark and E. Lefebvre on the lid
Exhibition
Salon des Artistes Français, 1902
Art Nouveau Belgium/France
Rice Museum, Houston – March 26, 1976 to June 27, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago – August 28, 1976 to October 31, 1976.
Catalogue n°300, illustrated page 203.
Bibliography
Art et Décoration, July 1902, page 24 L’Art décoratif aux expositions des Beaux-Arts, Armand Guérinet éditeur,
1ère série, 1902, pl. 72 and 73 Orfèvrerie Bijouterie Or et Argent, Catalogue de la maison Lelebvre, ill. 270 : Broc à lait n. 2415
Horst Makus, Keramik aus Historismus und Jugendstil, Kassel 1981, n. 67
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau, 1999, Arnoldsche, p. 166, n. 156
PRECIOUS BOX, CIRCA 1900
Chased silver with a design in light relief of foliage and fruits
With french Minerva mark and manufacturer’s mark
In is fitted box of the retailer Alfred Hamel
4.5 cm. high
8 cm. diameter