VASE, CIRCA 1900
Footed egg shaped glass marquetry vase with a pinched neck and a design of finely carved water lilies
Similar example at the Kitazawa Art Museum, Suwa, Japon
Height: 19.5 cm.
Exhibition Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes,
16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunom
Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons Volume IV: Ceramics & Glass, ill. on the cover page and p. 40.
TABLE CLOCK, CIRCA 1900
Gilt chased bronze on a black and gold lacquer background featuring a seated Chinese. Three dials indicating the time, the humidity and the temperature
Above three porcelain swans, with flowering foliage resting on 4 feet shaped as acorns
Signed BOIN-TABURET
Height: 32 cm.
“TETARDS” COUPE, DESIGNED IN 1897
Grès
Signed with the stamp of Pierre Roche and Bigot.
Diameter: 23 cm.
Exhibition
SNBA 1897
Bibliography
“Pierre Roche, à dire vrai, semble être attiré par une foule de branches de l’art décoratif; mais, si personnellement je ne saurais m’extasier devant ses reliures églomisées (?) il est évident que ses grès, son espèce de surtout de table représentant quatre femmes nues, sa Vénus d’or, sa coupole en faïence à reflets métalliques représentent des recherches curieuses; je n’aime pas beaucoup ses plats à fond vert ou jaunâtre, qui ont plutôt l’air de pièces mal venues que d’œuvres voulues ; j’imagine qu’il faudrait même beaucoup de littérature pour les faire passer pour autre chose que des essais, mais je les prends comme tels et à ce point de vue, ils sont encore intéressants”. Emile Molinier, Art et Décoration, May 1897, page 110. “M. Pierre Roche, par exemple, a rêvé d’assiettes rondes et creuses, imitant la surface d’un marais couvert de lentilles d’eau, au bord desquelles monte une grenouille verte et, grâce au concours de M. Bigot, il a pu réaliser son caprice “. Revue des Arts décoratifs, 1897, p. 340
Hélène Bédague Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016,
ill. p.154
“WEINENDE”, 1901
Bronze with a black patina
Signed
Height: 27 cm.
Bibliography
Catalogue de La Maison Moderne, Sculptures, p. 4, under the number 3421-1 Bernhardt Hoetger Skulptur Malerei Design Architektur, Hauschild, Bremen 1998, p. 316, n. 207
MIRROR, 1896-1897
Rectangular shape in wood, the frame in repoussé copper with a dark brown patina
Design of trees, reeds and three women
Signed lower left
45 x 60 cm.
Exhibition Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1897, n. 190-1 Les Industries d’Arts au Salon de la Libre Esthétique dans le Musée d’Art Moderne de Bruxelles, 1897 Exposition Carabin, Musée Galliéra 1934-1935 Exposition Carabin, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, 1974
Bibliography Catalogue de l’exposition L’Œuvre de Rupert Carabin 1862-1932, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, 1974, p. 178 ill. under the n. 82
Catalogue de l’exposition L’Art Nouveau : La révolution décorative, 18 April 2013 – 8 September 2013, Éditions Skira, 2013, Paris, the model in bronze ill. p. 59
“JEUNE FILLE AU CHAT”, CIRCA 1900
Statuette in sculpted wood and patinated ivory
The base in marble
Signed
Height: 11 cm.
Alfred Jorel was Sociétaire des Artistes Français and exhibited in Gallièra in 1903. (Exposition de l’ivoire), in 1908 (Exposition de la Parure Précieuse de la Femme) and in 1914 (Exposition de la Statuette). His pieces are unique
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, 1910-1914
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
