SUSSE FRERES

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CHARLES VITAL-CORNU – SUSSE FRERES – A COLOCYNTH VASE, CIRCA 1900

A COLOCYNTH VASE, CIRCA 1900
Porcelain, beige, brown and blue, featuring a woman holding the neck of a coloquinte
Signed Vital Cornu and Susse Fres Ed.
12.5 cm. high

Bibliography
Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères, 150 years of sculpture, p. 205, for the model in bronze, n. 427
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015,, ill p. 365

CHARLES VITAL-CORNU – SUSSE FRERES – BEAKER, “LA VIGNE”, CIRCA 1900

BEAKER, “LA VIGNE”, CIRCA 1900
Beige ceramic with brown and orange streaks, decorated with a bacchus head and a nude
bacchanale holding vine branches with blue leaves and grapes
Bearing the monogram VC, signed Susse Frs Ed.
12.3 cm. high

Bibliography
Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères, 150 years of sculpture, p. 205, n. 428, for the model in bronze
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma Editions, 2015, ill. p. 365

LOUIS-ERNEST BARRIAS – SUSSE FRERES – “LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900

“LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze and marble sculpture with
polychrome highlights; the scarab in sodalite; the base in green marble
Signed E. Barrias, and with foundry mark Susse Frères éditeurs, Paris
58 cm. high

Exhibition
Exposition Universelle of 1900, an example with two patinas illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,
Liège, 1903

Bibliography
Illustrated in the Susse Frères catalogues,
1905 and 1910
Les bronzes du XIXème, P. Kjellberg, Éd. de l'amateur 2005, p.50
Bronzes Sculptors & founders 1800-1950, H. Berman, Abage publishers, 1977 tome 3 n. 1387 p. 375