”DANTE ET VIRGILE”, 1903
Biscuit
Signed, marked with the manufacturer’s stamp,
stamped A.C (Alphonse Cieutat) and numbered 03.04 (April 1903)
36 cm. high
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie, son œuvre, n. 78
A PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain decorated with flowers and leaves; the chased mount in patinated wrought-iron
Marked with the manufacturer’s stamp and respectively numbered S97 and S98
24 cm. high
VASE “AUBERT N. 22”, 1935
Porcelain with a floral polychrome decor
Project: 146-33 “Aube”
Design: Félix Aubert
Decor: Anne Marie Fontaine
Signed A M Fontaine, numberedand stamped with letter h (1935)
45.5 cm. high
20 cm. wide
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
“LES RAMEAUX”, CIRCA 1900
Biscuit
Signed, bearing the Sèvres seal and marked AD 03
43 cm. high
Bibliography Art et Décoration, August 1902, p. 40 (bronze) L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1904, pl. 166 (bronze with a gilt patina) La Décoration Moderne, 13ème année, 1905-1906, pl. 54
Emile Bourgeois & Geo. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, recueil des modèles modernes de la Manufacture de Sèvres, edited by Pierre Lafitte & Cie, tom II, ill. pl. 33, n. 1308