SEVRES (MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE)

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – ALPHONSE SANDOZ – VASE D’APREMONT, 1902

VASE D’APREMONT, 1902
Colocynth vase in hard-pasted new porcelain with faceted body with decor in relief and application of leaves and vine branches wrapped around the vessel, forming two handles
Enamels in lovat green, ochre and brown on yellow background
Designed by Alphonse Sandoz
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1902
35,4 cm. high
An identical vase is in the collection of the Musée National de la Céramique, Sèvres, inventory n°15 913

Exhibition
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March-26 June 2000, ill. p. 282, n°300 in the exhibition catalogue

Bibliography
E. Molinier “Les plus récents Travaux de la Manufacture de Porcelaine de Sèvres”, Art et Décoration, November 1903, ill. p. 364, “Signalons encore une autre innovation : les vases à décor en relief exécuté par le moulage. On trouvera ici quelques échantillons de ces nouvelles pièces, notamment une bouteille de M. Sandoz qui est d’une belle venue. En ce genre et dans cette nouvelle voie on peut produire beaucoup de choses intéressantes”.
Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Barbara Mundt : “La porcelaine européenne au XIXème siècle”, Office du Livre S.A., Fribourg, Switzerland, 1983. ill. p. 232, pl. 415.

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – LÉON KANN, form designer – COFFEE SERVICE “FENOUIL”, 1898

COFFEE SERVICE “FENOUIL”, 1898
White porcelain (PN) glazed white with green highlights comprising coffee pot, milk pot, sugar bowl, two cups and saucers and matching tray
Bearing the manufacturer’s oval stamp for 1898 under each piece

Exhibition
Sèvres 1900, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, cup and saucer ill. p. 33 in the exhibition catalogue
1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 March-26 June 2000, ill. p. 282, no. 301 in the exhibition catalogue

Bibliography
La Décoration Moderne, XIIIème année, 1905-1906, pl. 7
Frédéric Descouturelle, Olivier Pons, La céramique et la lave émaillée d’Hector Guimard, Edition du Cercle Guimard, p. 12

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – AGATHON LEONARD – “DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX” on the right, N. 15, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900 – “DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX” on the left, N. 1, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900

“DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX” on the right, N. 15, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900 – “DANSEUSE AUX FLAMBEAUX” on the left, N. 1, 2eme GRANDEUR, CIRCA 1900
Original oval base decorated with foliage and cabochons in relief and heighlighted with gold
The figure n°1 is inscribed n°1 underneath. It bears the Sèvres triangular seal inscribed S 1911 as well as the Sèvres rectangular seal
The figure n°15 is also inscribed n°15 underneath and bears a Sèvres square seal marked S 1913 DN as well as the Sèvres rectangular seal and the initials GL

Height : 39 and 40 cm
Base : 11.2 cm.

Comes in two sizes of 57 & 38 cm. 59 examples of each were produced in both sizes between 1901 and 1923.
Originally exhibited as early as 1897, 15 different models were displayed on the Sevres booth at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. A complete set was offered to the tsar of Russia in 1901 and other complete sets are at the French embassy in Prague, the Victoria and Albert museum in London and the Musée de la céramique in Sèvres

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1897, section sculpture. A. Léonard exhibits ten maquettes figuring “le jeu des écharpes”
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900.

Bibliography
Émile Bourgeois & Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, tome II, Pierre Lafitte & Cie, Paris, 1909, ill. pl. 17, no. 1119
Agathon Léonard Le geste Art nouveau, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix and Musée département
de l’Oise à Beauvais, 2003, ill. p. 48, n. 23

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – “VASE DE CLERMONT” C PN, 1903

“VASE DE CLERMONT” C PN, 1903
White porcelain glazed yellow and green on a pink and green background; carved and patinated bronze mount with a pinecone motif
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1908
64 cm. high
44 cm. diameter

Bibliography
Alexandre Sandier & Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, Formes et décors modernes de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, 1913, pl. 16, for two similar vases decorated by Genevieve Rault with bronze bases

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – HENRI BRECY, form designer – PAIR OF BOTTLES “EPIS DE MAIS”, 1900

PAIR OF BOTTLES “EPIS DE MAIS”, 1900
Glazed porcelain; each with original stopper
Bearing the manufacturer’s stamp for 1901
16.5 cm. high

Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900
An identical bottle without its stopper was acquired in 1905 by the French State for the Musée des Ursulines in Mâcon and another one complete for the Musée de Saint-Nazaire. Both are today in the collection of the Cité de la Céramique in Sèvres. Another, with stopper, is in the Holburne Museum, Bath (Handley-Read collection), and a further example, without its stopper, is in the Musée des Beaux Arts de Quimper

Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, October 1900, La manufacture nationale de Sèvres à l’exposition universelle, similar example ill. p. 12

 

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – ANDRE-FERNAND THESMAR – POWDER COMPACT, 1895

POWDER COMPACT, 1895
Polychrome enamel; gold mounted on a Sèvres porcelain. Inside the cotton is decorated with an enamelled ladybug on a gold bud
Signed with the monogram and bearing the inscription: Faite pour Antonia Howard Trip 1895.
Three initials are entangled in the design

6.7 cm. diameter

The same decor is found on a small box exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – VASE, 1938

VASE, 1938
Model: PROU N.1
Author of the shape: René Prou
Decorated by Susanne Kaehrling in 1938
Decorated with reeds highlighted with gold, a bather, fishing boats and houses
Signed, rose seal, letter K and numbered 5935
45 cm. high

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – “VASE D’IGNY B”, 1921

“VASE D’IGNY B”, 1921
“Femme aux fleurs”
Shape designed by Alexandre Sandier, 1897
Decor by Robert Bonfils
Decorator: Marcel-Jean Piquet, 1921
Bearing the monogram MP (Marcel-Jean Piquet)
23.5 cm. high

Bibliography:
Lechevallier-Chevignard, Georges La Décoration Moderne à la Manufacture de Sèvres, Ch. Massin & Cie Editeurs, Paris, s.d. pl. 4
Les Oeuvres de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Vol. III, Les Vases et pièces décorées, ill., référence 2050 & 2051

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MANUFACTURE NATIONALE DE SEVRES – D’ALENCON VASE, 1926-1936

VASE, 1926-1936
Model: D’ALENCON
Shape designed by: Alexandre Sandier, 1906
Decorated by: Adrien-Auguste Leduc, decorator at Sèvres from 1923 until 1948
After a design by François Quelvée

Glazed ceramic, with a stylized decor of woman in an exotic landscape
Bearing the manufacturing marks Made in France and S 1926 DN (for pâte dure nouvelle)
and decorating marks Manufacture Nationale RF Décoré à Sèvres 1936
Signed in the decor A. Leduc d’ap. F. Quelvée
90 cm. high
37 cm. diameter

We are not aware of the existence of another similar vase. Vessels of that size were extremely difficult to manufacture

Exhibition
Sèvres – Elégance du 20ème siècle. L’Exposition des porcelaines de style Art Déco,
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2 October-19 December 1993, n. 21 in the exhibition catalogue