FRENCH – FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1900

FIRESCREEN, CIRCA 1900
Rosewood with a design of magnolia flowers in mother-of-pearl and wood marquetry on
leather and copper slats
Unidentified initials
85 cm. high
88 cm. long

A GROUP OF SEALS, CIRCA 1900

THEOPHILE HINGRE
LOUCHET, Chaser

Silvered bronze, featuring two dragonflies facing each other on a sprig of lily of the valley
Signed T. HINGRE and LOUCHET
9.8 cm. high

GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
LA MAISON MODERNE

“MEDITATION” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Height: : 9.5 cm.

Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle. Reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison Moderne, La Maison Moderne, Paris 1901, La Sculpture,
ill. p. 14, seal, n. 724-1

JOE DESCOMPS
SUSSE FRERES

“TANAGRA” SEAl, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed Joé Descomps and Susse Fres
Height: 9.8 cm.

FRENCH
“LES VIOLETTES” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
Height: 8 cm.

Bibliography
An identical model in gilt bronze is illustrated in Les Sceaux, Empreintes du Pouvoir, Roberto Lucio Rosaia, éditions Langlaude, p. 176