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HANS STOLTENBERG LERCHE – IMPORTANT COUPE, CIRCA 1905-1906

IMPORTANT COUPE, CIRCA 1905-1906
Patinated copper and bronze
The stem featuring an aquatic shrub trunk on the top of which is inserted a semi-precious stone
The base in the shape of roots with an inlaid mother-of-pearl stone
The bowl is in repoussé patinated brown and red copper with two carpes
Signed H. ST. Lerche

35.6 cm. high
Diameter of the bowl: 30 cm.

In 1903, Hans Stoltenberg Lerche exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts a vase in copper, bronze and semi-precious stones decorated with chameleons. The following year, he exhibited a “Jardinière Poissons”. In 1905, he exhibited a “Coupe Poissons” and in 1907 a “Coupe cuivre repoussé et pierreries”, no. 2556. His dinanderies are obviously unique pieces and almost impossible to find nowadays

Exhibition
SNBA 1907, n. 2556

Bibliography
” Dans ses gobelets, cornets, vases, M. Saint-Lerche copie avec peut-être trop de fidélité des formes exceptionnelles de la flore, enroulement de feuilles, nodosité de plantes marines,
et il déconcerte un peu “. Gustave Kahn, preface in L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1ère série, 1905, Armand Guérinet, editeur
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1905, 1ère série, pl. 106 et 107 : Illustration of few pieces with a similar design
The International Studio, 15 December 1906, pp. 273 to 274: Similar piece exhibited by the artist at the Milan International exhibition in 1906 and which disappeared after a fire destroyed the pavilion
Geneviève Coste, Style 1900 – Style 1925, Connaissance des Arts, numéro de Noël 1966, article on the Nourhan Manoukian’s collection, ill. p. 129 (mistakenly attributed to Raoul Larche).
Laurence Buffet-Challié, Le Style Moderne, Baschet et Cie, Paris, n.d. ill. page 157, ill. 3 (mistakenly attributed to Raoul Larche)

Provenance
Nourhan Manoukian’s collection, Paris

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LOUIS HESTAUX – “VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”

“VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”
Oil on panel
Carved fruit wood frame

Label at the back: Vallée de la Moselle, Société Lorraine des Amis des Arts, Expositon du centenaire 1833 – 1933, désignation: Messein, appartenant à Me Hestaux demeurant à Nancy rue des Tiercelins

21 x 40 cm.
With the frame: 30 x 48 cm.

Exhibition
Louis Hestaux / Collaborateur de Gallé, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 1982, n.127
Metz…Nancy / Nancy…Metz, une histoire de frontière 1861-1909, Metz, musées de la Cour d’Or
18 December 1999 – 12 March 2000, ill. p. 183, n. 200

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist’s family

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PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès enameled in shade of bronze with sang-de-boeuf glaze
Numbered 258
27.8 cm. high

Our vase is similar to the gourd kept at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology in Besançon, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix ou quand un sculpteur rencontre un céramiste, 24 April – 5 July 1993, n. 31, p. 63

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PIERRE-ADRIEN DALPAYRAT – ALPHONSE VOISIN-DELACROIX – BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN NUN’S COSTUME, 1893

BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN A NUN’S COSTUME, 1893
Grès with red and green glaze
Signed
43 cm. high

This bust would be a posthumous portrait of Eugénie Delacroix, a young cousin of the artist who died prematurely in 1884. The sculptor reportedly used the young woman’s death mask to make the shape of her face.
There are three reduced model (of the plaster model) in enamelled grès, one is at the Musée d’Orsay, signed Voisin-Delacroix

Exhibition
Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1893, n°410 (Now at the musée d’Orsay, inventory number DO 1986-83)
Adrien Dalpayrat (1844-1910) – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, 1998
Fondation Neumann, Gingins, Switzeland
Kreismuseum Zons, Germany
Musée de l’Ile de France, Sceaux, France
Museum voor Sierkunst & Vormgeving, Gent, Belgium

Bibliography
Horst Makus & al.n, Adrien Dalpayrat – Céramiste de l’Art Nouveau, Arnoldsche, 1998, ill. n°123, p. 162

Provenance
Private collection

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ALEXANDRE VIBERT – JOLLET & Cie – “THEODORA”, CIRCA 1900

“THEODORA”, CIRCA 1900
Parcel-gilt and silvered-bronze figure of the empress wearing the Byzantium crown,
heightened with translucent enamels and set with colourful semi-precious stones
Signed and impressed with the foundry mark

61 cm. high

Theodora was the wife of Justinian I who was crowned Emperor of the
Byzantine Empire in 527 AD. As his wife, she ruled by his side, and as his partner,
her intelligence helped to advance the Empire

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HECTOR GUIMARD – PLANTER, CIRCA 1900

PLANTER, CIRCA 1900
Cast iron
51.5 x 70.5 x 46.5 cm.
37 kg.

Similar model:
Houston, USA, “The Menil Collection”, inv. 71-53 DJ.
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Japon, inv. ANF-241101

Exhibition
Paris, Hector Guimard; fontes artistiques, galerie du Luxembourg, 1971, ill. p. 39, n. 80
Houston, Rice Museum et The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, Art Nouveau Belgium France,
ill. 450, n. 696
Paris, Guimard, Musée d’Orsay, 1992, ill. p. 354, n. 24

Bibliography
Fontes artistiques pour constructions, Fumisterie, Articles de Jardin et Sépultures, Saint-Dizier, 1907, pl. 41, modèle GD

“Cette coupe figure dans la première édition du catalogue des Fontes Artistiques de la fonderie de Saint-Dizier, exclusivement consacrée aux fontes pour « constructions, fumisterie, jardins et sépultures » créées par Guimard. Certains des modèles de ce catalogue datent de 1901, d’autres de la période 1903-1905, mais la plupart ont été créés entre 1905 et 1909. C’est à cette dernière date que paraît le premier catalogue et que débute la commercialisation de ces fontes. La coupe GD est présentée sur la planche 41 dédiée aux « Articles de jardin ». Guimard la place également en situation, surmontant un pilier, sur le dessin de la planche 33 où il donne deux exemples de clôtures de jardin. Lors de la réédition du catalogue, remanié et augmenté vers 1912, une seconde coupe (GE) apparaît sur la planche supplémentaire 42 comme une simplification de la coupe GD par ablation de ses larges anses à la partie supérieure et de ses jambes obliques à la partie inférieure. Les deux coupes sont encore présentes dans les catalogues de la fonderie en 1921, mais elles ont disparu de l’édition de 1935, alors que d’autres articles de jardin comme le vase GA et la jardinière GF sont encore disponibles. Le tirage présenté à l’exposition de la Pinacothèque a une finition granuleuse, comparable à celle de la jardinière GF de la vente Sotheby’s Paris du 16 février 2013. Cette finition apparaît médiocre au regard de celle, beaucoup plus poussée, de nombre de tirages de fontes d’ornement de Guimard que nous connaissons. L’un de nos correspondants, monsieur Tangui Le Lonquer, suggère que si la fonte a longtemps séjourné en extérieur sans bonne protection, elle a pu être couverte d’une couche de rouille plus ou moins incrustée, qu’il a fallu tout d’abord « dérouiller » avec perte de matière, pour ensuite stabiliser la patine afin d’ obtenir un résultat proche de ce que nous voyons. Seul un entretien régulier ou une présentation en intérieur permet d’obtenir, un siècle plus tard, une patine proche de l’origine”. (Le Cercle Guimard, 11 July 2013)

The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Glass, Ceramic and Furniture, Japan, 2010, ill. p. 98, n. 052

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HECTOR GUIMARD – MANTELPIECE, CIRCA 1900

MANTELPIECE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted marble
Dimension: 100 x 132 x 32 cm

In a letter dated 10th December 2023, Frederic Descouturelles, Secretary of the Guimard Circle, informs us that the marble fireplaces designed for the Castel Beranger and illustrated on plate 40 in the portfolio, Guimard did not provide specific designs for cast iron inserts. These were simple white earthenware bevelled plates.

Bibliography
Le Castel Béranger, Librairie Rouam & Cie, ill. pl. 40

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EDWARD COLONNA – L’ART NOUVEAU BING – GDA LIMOGES – SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904

SERVICE CANTON, CIRCA 1904
Coffee cup and saucer designed by Edward Colonna for L’Art Nouveau Bing
Ivory colored porcelain manufactured by GDA in Limoges, with incised Art Nouveau decoration and a design enameled in celadon and rose
Bearing the Art Nouveau Paris green enameled stamp

Cup height: 5.5 cm.
Diameter of the saucer: 13.5 cm.

Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, April 1901, pp. 12 & 13 : Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton
Art Nouveau Belgium / France, Houston & Chicago, 1976, similar model with a different design,
n. 246, page 178
Chefs-d’œuvre de la porcelaine de Limoges, Musée du Luxembourg, 1996, page 256 : Illustration of a cup and its saucer, Canton model
Edith Mannoni, Porcelaines de Limoges, Massin éditeur, sd., page 90 : Illustration of three pieces from the service Canton
Gabriel Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing – Paris style 1900, Harry N. Abrams, inc., New York, 1986, pp. 197 & 200: Illustration of other pieces from the service Canton

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LOUIS MAJORELLE – “AUX ORCHIDEES” DESK AND IT’S ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1903-1905

“AUX ORCHIDEES” DESK AND ITS ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1903-1905
Mahogany, gilt and chased bronze.
The desk: 95 x 151 x 70 cm.
The armchair: 80 x 77 x 65 cm.

Similar example is to be found at the musée d’Orsay and another one in the Ferdinand Neess’ collection at the Wiesbaden Museum.

Exhibition
Société des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, 1907

Bibliography
Carl Benno Heller, Art Nouveau Meubles, Imprimerie des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1990 Berghaus Verlag, the chair is illustrated p. 85.
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1991, p. 192, n°208, illustration of the base of the desk at the Musée d’Orsay.
Alastair Duncan, Majorelle, Flammarion, 1991, ill. pl. 48 (example at the musée d’Orsay).
Anne-Marie Quette, Le Mobilier Français Art Nouveau 1900, Massin, 1995, ill. p. 43 (example at the musée d’Orsay).
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Il Modernismo, h.f. Ullmann, 2004, ill. pp. 118 & 119
Radikal Schön Jugendstil und Symbolismus, Die Sammlung Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess, Wiesbaden Museum, 2019, ill. p. 144

Bureau et son fauteuil, modèle dit : “Aux Orchidées”, vers 1903-1905.
Acajou sculpté, courbaril vernis, cuir estampé, bronzes dorés et ciselés.
95 x 151 x 70 cm
Fauteuil : 80 x 77 x 65 cm

Exposition
Société des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, 1907.

Bibliographie
Carl Benno Heller “Art Nouveau Meubles”, Imprimerie des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1990 Berghaus Verlag, chaise repr. p. 85.
Roselyne Bouvier Majorelle, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1991, p. 192, n°208, illustration du piétement du bureau du Musée d’Orsay.
Alastair Duncan Majorelle, Flammarion, 1991, repr. pl. 48 (exemplaire du musée d’Orsay).
Anne-Marie Quette, Le Mobilier Français Art Nouveau 1900, Massin, 1995, repr. p. 43 (exemplaire du musée d’Orsay).
Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Il Modernismo, h.f. Ullmann, 2004, repr. pp. 118 et 119.

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EMILE GALLE – ANCOLIES VASE, CIRCA 1897-1900

ANCOLIES VASE, CIRCA 1897-1900
Hand-blown, acid-etched, and engraved glass with marquetry and foil inclusions
18.4 cm
Engraved Gallé

Bibliography
Dekorative Kunst, 3, 1899, p. 128, another similar example illustrated
L'Art Décoratif, March 1905, p. 136, another similar example illustrated
Collection Roger Marx – Objets d’Art Moderne, Lair-Dubreuil and Baudoin,
Paris, 13 May 1914, lot 81, for an attenuated version of this model
J. Bloch-Dermant, The Art of French Glass 1860-1914, New York, 1974, p. 94,
another similar example illustrated
Exposition Émile Galle and Toulouse-Lautrec, exhib. cat., Osaka, 1995, p. 48,
another similar example illustrated
H. Ricke, Glas des Art Nouveau, Munich, 1998, p. 126, fig. 40, another
similar example illustrated
V. Thomas, École de Nancy – Fleurs et ornements, Paris, 1999, p. 38,
for a pencil and watercolor design for a taller version of the ‘Ancolie’ vase
Émile Gallé et le Verre, Le Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy,
2004, p. 164, another similar example illustrated
Gallé Art Nouveau Glass, Kitazawa Museum of Art, exhib. cat., Vol. 2, Tokyo, pp. 35-36,
another similar example illustrated
E. Gallé, Émile Gallé, New York, 2014, p. 100, another similar example illustrated

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EMILE GALLE – ORCHIDEE VASE, CIRCA 1900

ORCHIDEE VASE, CIRCA 1900
Applied, carved, and marquetry cased glass
22.9 x 14 cm;
Engraved Gallé

Bibliography
R. Marx, Émile Gallé – Psychologie de l’artiste et synthèse de l’oeuvre, Art et Décoration,
Paris, August 1911, p. 245, for an illustration of the variant in the Marx collection
Collection Roger Marx – Objets d’Art Moderne, Paris, 13 May 1914, lot 98, the above variant
of this model
J. Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du Verre en France 1860-1914, Lausanne, 1974, p. 100, another similar
example illustrated
L. Buffet-Challié, Le Modern Style, Paris,1975, p. 127, another similar example illustrated
P. Garner, Émile Gallé, Paris, 1976, p. 112, for an illustration of a variant of the green and pink version
B. Warmus, Émile Gallé – Dreams into Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning,
New York, 1984, pp. 98-101, for illustrations of the Roger Marx collection variant, pp. 102-103,
cat. no. 20, for the variant, lot 45 in the present catalogue
A. Duncan, G. de Bartha, Gallé Le Verre, London, 1984, p. 76, pl. 98, another similar
example illustrated
P. Thiébaut, Gallé, Paris, 1985, p. 172, for an illustration of an 1889 precursor to this model,
and p. 210 for a green and pink version in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie,
Boulogne-sur-Mer
A. Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Vol. IV: Ceramics and Glass, Woodbridge,
1998, p. 217, design drawing illustrated, p. 224, another similar example illustrated
from the Exposition de l’École de Nancy, Paris, 1903, p. 230, another similar example
illustrated from the Paris Salon 1903-1904
L’École de Nancy, 1889-1909, Paris, 1999, p. 185, another example illustrated
E. Gallé, Émile Gallé, New York, 2014, p. 154, another similar example illustrated

His striking vase ‘Orchidée’ of around 1900, with its full-relief application of a
coelogina cristata in full bloom, is the fulfilment of a model that dates back to 1889.
In that year Gallé included a version of the vase in his submission to the Exposition Universelle
in Paris. The model, its form derived from that of an archaic Chinese Han bronze vessel, was executed
in a lightly veined glass whose decoration was rendered in surface enameling, patination, and engraving. The motifs were drawn from both Islamic and Japanese sources.
The piece illustrated the eclecticism that marked Gallé’s oeuvre, particularly in its earlier chapters before the emergence through the 1890s and the fulfilment around 1900 of his mature style. The present piece exploits the same Han form, but now with a more complex and richer decoration
in the mass of the glass, and with the chosen flower, the orchid, represented in luscious full relief.
A version of this model was presented at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris and an
example was in the illustrious contemporary collection of Roger Marx, art critic, connoisseur,
Inspector-general of French museums and subsequently editor of La Gazette des Beaux-Arts

The model also exists in variegated jade green and pink with a pink flower in the
former collection of Roger Marx and in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Boulogne-sur-mer.

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PAUL MILET – EMILE BELET – VASE, CIRCA 1900

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Grès with gray blue mottling, decorated with honesty leaves applied on both sides
Signed MILLET / Sèvres under the base and Belet sc lower right
28 cm. high

Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill p. 53

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MAURICE MARINOT – BOTTLE, MM N. 469, 1922

BOTTLE, MM N. 469, 1922
Clear glass internally decorated with green spirals
Original stopper
Signed
21 cm. high

Bibliography
Félix Marcilhac, Maurice Marinot Artisan Verrier, Catalogue raisonné de l’Oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l’amateur, 2013, ill. p. 328

Exhibition
“A propos du Salon des Décorateurs”, L’Amour de l’Art, March 1922, p. 85
Hélène Demoriane, Marinot, le maître verrier des années 1920, Connaissance des Arts, September 1967

Provenance
Galerie Witcomb (1923)
Lilian Nassau, New York, USA
Sotheby’s New York, USA, April 16-17, 1990, lot n. 60
Robert Zehil Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
Private collection, New York, USA
Acquired from the above in December 2015

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MAURICE MARINOT – BOWL, MM n°528, 1922

BOWL, MM n°528, 1922
Clear and etched glass
Signed
9.5 cm. high

Bibliography
Félix Marcilhac, Maurice Marinot Artisan Verrier / Catalogue raisonné de l’Oeuvre de verre,
Les éditions de l’amateur, 2013, ill. p. 338

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DAUM NANCY – JACQUES GRUBER – JULES MARCHAND, Engraver – “VIGNE” VASE, 1895

“VIGNE” VASE, 1895
Moulded, blown, internally decorated glass, overlaid in black, deeply acid-etched
and wheel-carved, applied decoration
Gilt intaglio signature Daum Nancy with the cross of Lorraine, inscribed Mo and Fecit, dated 1895,
signed Gruber Del and J. Marchand
46 cm. high

Jacques Gruber was the most prominent designer working at Daum between 1893 and 1897.
From 1893, he designed vessels intended for national and international exhibitions,
most of which were unique pieces. He is most probably the author of the shape that appeared
in 1894 and of which very few examples are known, more or less all equal in height and with
various designs of poppies, thistles, sweet peas, and peacock feathers.
Most of them are presently in museums. We were unable to locate a similar example in that particular height.
Jules Marchand was the principal engraver at the Daum workshop. Working with an oil lamp, he ended his life blind